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[lowrettaduhvyne]

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[ufitleaders-blog]

We made it like that, by growing and sharing and selling our own food...The main crops that helped sustain us were the cash crops we grew which helped us go to college. My mother grew tomatoes and cucumbers. Those were the two crops that helped really build the island, back when we had packing houses where distributors and large farmers came and bought what local farmers would bring in to sell from their farms.

from The Color of Food: How Gardens and Farms Can Help Us Heal From a History of Racism

[ufitleaders-blog]

Folks come in with bulldozers, and the first thing we see is they want to dig up what we’ve already had for so many generations.