Black Farmers Are Sowing The Seeds Of Health And Empowerment : The Salt : NPR
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For him, farming is about more than just his own health. Newman hopes to encourage more people of color to become farmers and push for sustainable farming practices so healthy food becomes accessible to those who can’t afford it.
“It’s not just about our happy damn chickens. This is about how do we fix this system,” he says.
Newman says when he switched careers, he realized how overwhelmingly white farming is in America — he felt alone as a person of color. “You go into Whole Foods around here, you don’t see black people,” he says. “You go to farmers markets, don’t see that many black people. You go to farms, don’t see any black people.” Farming is more than 90 percent white — the second-whitest job in the United States, according to 2016 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.