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Southwest Georgia Project
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Southwest Georgia Project is on a mission to educate, engage, and empower communities using a variety of programs and strategies to advance real social change in Southwest Georgia and beyond. They aim to develop a more accessible and community-oriented food system; increase opportunities to family and historically underserved farms; and build sustainable and just movements to shift social norms.
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Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention
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SFLR exists to create a sustainable system of support for African American forest owners that significantly increases the value of African American owned forests, land retention, and asset development for Black families in the U.S. South. Since its inception, SFLR has improved forest management and forest retention by connecting African American landowners to established networks of forestry support, including federal and state government programs, businesses, and non-profit conservation, legal, community development, and Black social justice organizations.
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Ted Takeaways: Podcast 2 - Working with Diverse Communities
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The second of two short podcasts with Mr. Ted Coopwood III, DEI practitioner and conservation leader. Podcast II focuses on how to better work with diverse communities in the field.
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The Black Family Land Trust
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The Black Family Land Trust, Inc. (BFLT) incorporated in 2004 and based in North Carolina, is one of the nation’s only conservation land trust dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically underserved landowners assets.
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The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
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The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that protects heirs’ property and promotes its sustainable use to provide increased economic benefit to historically under-served families.
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The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
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The Federation has been successfully working since 1967 to provide Black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives in the Southern region with land retention assistance, cooperative development assistance, and advocacy. The Federation is a non-profit cooperative association of black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives. The majority of our farmers, landowners, cooperatives, and credit unions are in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana.
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The National Black Food and Justice Alliance
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The National Black Food and Justice Alliance represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty.
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The Northeast Farmers of Color Network
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The Northeast Farmers of Color Network is an informal alliance of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers making our lives on land in the Northeast region. There are 21 founding member farms and a total of over 515 farmers, land stewards, and earth workers in our network.
Currently, the Network exists as a members-only listserv* and we also gather regionally and annually for skillshares and knowledge exchanges.
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The Southwest Georgia Project
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Southwest Georgia Project is on a mission to educate, engage, and empower communities using a variety of programs and strategies to advance real social change in Southwest Georgia and beyond. They aim to develop a more accessible and community-oriented food system; increase opportunities to family and historically underserved farms; and build sustainable and just movements to shift social norms.
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Tracy Potter-Fins and Bethany Stanbery grow fresh, high quality, certified organic, Montana Homegrown produce and flowers for their community
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Tracy Potter-Fins and Bethany Stanbery grow fresh, high quality, certified organic, Montana Homegrown produce and flowers for their community. While Tracy focusses her efforts on the vegetable side at County Rail Farm, Bethany focusses her efforts on Field Five Flowers, but they both focus most of the love on their 7-month-old daughter, Imogen Stanbery-Fins. (USDA/FPAC photo by Preston Keres).
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