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THIS BIPOC FARMER’S COLLECTIVE SOWS MORE SEEDS WITH CALIFORNIA STATE GRANT
Black Enterprise ^ | November 16, 2023 | Atiya Jordan

Posted on 11/17/2023 7:45:14 AM PST by artichokegrower

A collective of Black farmers in West Sacramento, California, is sowing seeds for a sustainable tomorrow with its a recent $1.25 million grant.

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“We’re trying to get away from the more colonial, extractive, and destructive systems that have shaped farming over the last 100 years,”


Rejecting the last 100 years of agricultural technology? Stalin and Mao tried that in the past. It didn't end well.

1 posted on 11/17/2023 7:45:14 AM PST by artichokegrower
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“BIPOC” is Dim-speak for not a sorry good-for-nuthin white person.


2 posted on 11/17/2023 7:55:30 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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429 growers out of 124000 growers got 30% of the loans and that is deemed unfair? That’s .003% getting 36%. I’d say yeah, that’s unfair for the remaining 123,571 growers who got 64%.


3 posted on 11/17/2023 8:02:32 AM PST by rey
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Hitting all the right notes...
“collective”
“black”
“sustainable”
“grant”


4 posted on 11/17/2023 8:25:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Mao said China’s key to the future was making steel and he instructed the nation to build back yard furnaces and smelters. Everybody knew that if they ignored “Dear Leader’s” commands, they were going to be killed or sent to re-education camps, so everybody built backyard furnaces.

Agriculture quickly ground to a halt because farmers became amateur steel makers. Mass starvation soon followed.


5 posted on 11/17/2023 8:28:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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I look forward to the future companion article describing how this grant money amounted to nothing in terms of results. Heck, they may even mention the word “fraud”.


6 posted on 11/17/2023 8:38:42 AM PST by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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The comments at Instagram are hilarious. These people have ZERO knowledge of history or what "collectivization" does to productivity and motivation.
Seriously looking forward to the fruit of this collective labor.

There is no healing without land justice. The real work begins.

Grateful to serve and be a part of such a powerful group of thought leaders and advocates!

oso_miel_7 commented "You clean up well my guy" (LOL -- is that a compliment?)

Recipients of free money are always smiling, not toiling...


7 posted on 11/17/2023 8:39:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Do it without the government’s assistance...then I’ll be impressed.


8 posted on 11/17/2023 9:08:00 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Ironically these folks are going to get regulated out of business. I have 43 years experience in California agriculture. They are going to have to deal with USDA, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, Cal EPA, DPR, Fish and Game, CARB, Sustainable Groundwater, Ag Order 4.0, nitrogen budget, and on and on.


9 posted on 11/17/2023 9:10:21 AM PST by artichokegrower
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see that The Powers That Be somehow exempt BIPOC farmers from all of those regulations that strangle you and other “normal” farmers.


10 posted on 11/17/2023 9:18:41 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Ze bugs and ze seeds. Gonna need a toothpick.


11 posted on 11/17/2023 10:45:17 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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