Through settler colonialism and the industrialization of US agriculture, capitalist policies and power structures have favored accumulation. These policies have perpetuated racial and ethnic inequities in more subtle ways than the events we read about in the previous...
An estimated 73% of agriculture workers in the US today were born outside the US (USDA Farm Labor). Agricultural work requires skill, is very physically demanding, and can be extremely dangerous. Farmworkers across the country risk injury or illness from heavy...
US agriculture was built on the strength and skill of enslaved Black people whose knowledge and labor were stolen in order to produce capital for their enslavers. Even after slavery ended, black farmers continued to face systemic barriers, including the dispossession...
Settlers began taking land from Indigenous peoples of the Americas when Europeans arrived in 1492. The United States has stolen nearly 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans. The US has used three primary legal tools to dispossess land from Native Americans: federal...
Although what we now call agroforestry was once prevalent in North America, today, it is not a dominant form of land stewardship. To understand the current landscape, it is important to recognize the history of settler colonialism and land theft. Indigenous people of...
🔊 “You Can’t Believe It Grows Here” – Project Pawpaw with Adam D’Angelo
🔊 A Thorny Topic: Black Locust and Honey Locust for Agroforestry
🔊 “Spreadsheets on the Radio” – Farm Viability and the Fruit & Nut Compass with John Hendrickson
🔊 Getting Started with Forest Farming – Ingrid Daudert, Karam Sheban, and Robin Suggs
🔊 Agroforestry for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – with Nate Lawrence and Monika Shea