All Case Studies
Southside Community Farm
Farmer’s name: Southside Community Farm, Phyllis Utley & Cleaster Cotton Acreage: 0.5 acres Location: Asheville, NC Method of Access: handshake [...]
Cheryl Lewis Alston
Farmers name: Cheryl Lewis Alston, Joanne Spruill Acreage: 19 acres owned, 5 acres leased Location: Goldsboro, NC Method of Access: [...]
12:03AM Farm
Farmer name: Darius and Shameeka McKoy/12:03AM Farm Acreage: 36 acres Location: Faison, North Carolina Method of Access: Purchase Year Founded: [...]
Kendra Ragland
Farmers name: Kendra Ragland
Acreage: collectively, about a ¼ acre
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Method of Access: Ownership
Year Founded: 2022
Affordability Tools: Purchase
Farm Operation: Purchase
Just Harvest
Farmer name: Jay L. Richardson Grebe (she/they), Just Harvest
Acreage: three acres, small land plots
Location: Virginia's Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula
Method of Access: Inheritance, city lease
Year Founded: 2022
Affordability Tools: self-funded, donations
Farm Operation: Vegetables
G4 Farms
- Farmer name: G4 Farms LLC, owned by Raina Turner-Greenlea, Charles Greenlea III, & George Turner III
- Method of Access: Inherited family land
- Acreage: 160 acres in Crawfordville, GA, and an urban homestead on 0.2 acres
- Location: Crawfordville GA, Atlanta, GA
- Year Founded: 2016
- Affordability Tools: self-funded, federal programs, grants, and donations
- Farm Operation: Fruits and nuts, medicinal herbs, teas, dyes and fiber
Green Heffa Farms
- Farmer name: Clarenda “Farmer Cee” Stanley
- Acreage: 14.84 acres
- Location: Liberty, NC
- Year Founded: 2018
- Affordability Tools: Purchase
- Farm Operation: organic and regeneratively grown herbs and medicinal plants, including hemp flower
Black Cotton
- Farmers name: Julius Tillery
- Acreage: 125
- Location: Rich Square, NC
- Method of Access: Ownership
- Year Founded: Six generations, early 1900s
- Affordability Tools: Purchase
- Farm Operation: Cotton, mushrooms, hunting
Nature’s Candy Farms
- Farmers name: tenisio seanima
- Method of Access: Ownership, lease, handshake
- Acreage: 1/4 acre
- Location: East Point, GA
- Year Founded: 2011
- Affordability Tools: Purchase, Lease
- Farm Operation: Vegetable, Specialty Crop
Tierra Fértil
- Los agricultores: Chang y Ger Xiong, Christina Dedora, Ben Torpey, John Kenny, Michele Kozloski, Garmai Mawolo, Choua y Kia Xiong
- Método de acceso: Arrendamiento a largo plazo, tierra pública
- Superficie en acres: 50 acres
- Ubicación: Henderson, North Carolina
- Año de fundación: 2004
- Herramientas de asequibilidad: Incubadora agricultora, servidumbre de conservación, agricultura colaborativa, tierra pública
- Operación agrícola: Verduras orgánicas, huevos, flores y hierbas
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