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![Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice [The Jubilee Justice Story]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/75uC_EiYoZI/hqdefault.jpg "Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice [The Jubilee Justice Story]
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On a former plantation in central Louisiana, The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism. This innovative project combines restorative economics, regenerative agriculture, and asset ownership to work towards racial justice. By embracing regenerative farming, Jubilee Justice Rice Project tackles the racial wealth gap, land theft and the loss of Black farmers, and the environmentally harmful methods of rice production.
Konda Mason, the visionary leader driving Jubilee Justice, along with renowned social justice advocate Shirley Sherrod, discuss the potential of restorative economics and regenerative farming to combat racism. According to Mason, Sherrod, and the dedicated multi-racial supporters and volunteer experts involved, this approach is already making a significant difference.
This project serves as a response to historical injustices and seeks to empower Black farmers by cultivating high-value crops, specifically, specialty rice. This episode sheds light on the significance of owning the means of production, exemplified by the cooperatively-owned rice mill that Jubilee Justice has recently opened. By eliminating intermediaries and increasing profitability, this cooperative model bolsters economic independence for Black farmers who have historically faced land theft and discrimination.
Through knowledge sharing, collaboration, and community support, this project endeavors to bridge the racial divide and foster a future rooted in justice and healing.
“As Black farmers, we rarely own the land . . . And we are completely dependent upon a third party to say yes to my crop . . . What that mill represents is a vertical integration of their crop from growing it to milling it, to distributing it, and making their own decisions . . . We have to own the means of production.” - Konda Mason
“. . . Its not just the big guys who can come in and grow rice where its not even healthy and feed it to all of us . . . We can pick our area, we can do it right, we can show care and love for each other, and that comes out in the food we provide.” - Shirley Sherrod
00:00 Jubilee Justice
02:15 Historical Context
04:00 Land Ownership
05:45 Rice Mill
08:40 Repair Essence
10:30 Farming Approach
13:20 Lotus Foods
16:15 Farmer Impact
19:00 Sherrods Perspective
24:30 Conclusion
Guests:
Nwamaka Agbo: CEO, Kataly Foundation & Managing Director, Restorative Economies Fund
Myles Gaines: Head of Innovation & Experimentation, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project
Donna Isaac: Farmer, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project
Ken Lee and Caryl Levine: Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Lotus Foods; Partners with Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project
Konda Mason: Founder & President, Jubilee Justice
Shirley Sherrod: Executive Director, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education; Co-Founder, New Communities, Inc.; U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Equity Commission
Bernard Winn: Operations Specialist & Mill Manager, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project
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📺 RELATED EPISODES:
Farmworkers to Farm Owners: https://youtu.be/BcwQ7MAxd14
Soul Fire Farm: Feeding the Soul, Growing Community: https://youtu.be/StygQm6YlwQ
Free The Land: Shirley Sherrod and Black Land Struggles in the South: https://youtu.be/8oI4yg2Zg1E
📚 Check out our Book of the Week: “Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear” by Shirley Sherrod with Catherine Whitney: https://bookshop.org/a/22992/9781451651010
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