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The Modern Farmer Glossary of Farm Jargon
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Learn to transform cardboard, stale beer and bits of trash into DIY fertilizers, pest control and more
Fake News from the Garden: Five Plant Myths DEBUNKED
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Fertilizers, Demystified: An Easy Guide to Choosing the Right Plant Food
It’s not as hard as those jargon-heavy labels would make you think.
Leah Penniman is an American anomaly: black, female, and a farmer. In 2016, Penniman hit the streets of Albany, New York, to protest the police brutality that killed Donald “Dontay” Ivy, 39, an unarmed local man. But her primary focus involves fighting what she considers a far more common, yet more subtly brutal, form of oppression. “Corporations, and white folks in particular, control the food system,” explains the 37-year-old. “If the means of production are in the hands of people outside our community, we are dependent on those who might not have our best interests in mind.”
