Farmer John Boyd Jr. Wants African-Americans To Reconnect With Farming

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Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling the Soil Once Meant Shame



The best weed grower I know is a breh

Farming is literally in the black mans DNA. The Ancient egyptians turned in to an advanced civilization due to their knowledge of farming.

 

[Captain Crunch]

My grandpa use to grow watermelon in South Carolina.

 

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[CoryMack]

My grandpa use to grow watermelon in South Carolina.

Mine too. And those peas we had to shell, and cucumbers. When I was little he still had some chickens he used to get eggs from and a few hogs, but he was pretty much done with farming by then. Still had the two tractors and would still till his and his friend’s fields. I learned how to drive a tractor when I was about 12/13 when we’d visit in the summers.

 

[Gritsngravy]

I’ve been thinking on how to get into the industry

 

[Gritsngravy]

Said a whole lot of nothing, need to ask one of them Hispanics he dikk riding on camera how much they make in a week

 

[CoryMack]

Our people were steered away from farming to go to college. My mom and her 3 brothers grew up on a farm, but they all went to college and none of em except one of my uncles moved back to the country. And he was a teacher, not a farmer. It’s not laziness. The link from our grandparents who farmed to us today was broken because many of our parents didn’t want to keep farming and/or were pushed to go to college, and today young people aren’t being introduced to farming anymore.

We still have our family farm in SC but trees have grown up all over the property and even if I wanted to go back and farm I wouldn’t know where to begin.