USDA’s 2501 program provides critical support for Black farmers in Georgia: farm bill negotiations threaten the program’s future

Organic peanut field day hosted by SAAFON Before my great grandmother, Mrs. Maggie Johnson, made her transition when I was 5 years old, she told me I was the one who would take over our family’s 100-year old farm. Fifty years later, I am struggling to see that dream through. The leaders and farmers in the SAAFON network have become my extended family. I am connected to brilliant, like-minded...

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