“The Freedom Farm created a shared ownership model allowing cooperative members to “feed themselves, own their own homes, farm cooperatively, and create small businesses together in order to support a sustainable food system, land ownership, and economic development”, (Davy, 4).
Black Agrarianism: Resistance

“In those days, the school not only did not teach organic farming techniques, it actively frowned on them. But even as an inexperienced student, Beddard thought that there was something viscerally wrong with using poisonous chemicals to grow food we would eventually put in our mouths. “I was viewed as a renegade with a hippie philosophy”’ (Estabrook, 155-156).

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Seminar week 8