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Soil Needs: well-drained soil

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Farming While Black Planter Drought tolerant and hardy toBy Leah Penniman James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019: Leah Penniman Choice Reviews, Outstanding Academic Title In 1920, 14 percent of all land owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black peoplea loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited, and people of