One-third of 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 residents identify as people of color, but statistically, more than 98% of 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 farmers are white. It鈥檚 a disparity rooted in generations of racism, unequal access to land and credit, and systemic discrimination. But while their numbers are small, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) farmers do exist in 黑料吃瓜网. All summer long, we will bring you their stories through audio interviews and photographs, which will be posted here. Listen to these farmers in their own words.
Aarmere Jackson, 19, Aarmari Quino帽ez, 24
"People hear, 鈥極h, you're a beekeeper?鈥� It's like an amazement to them."
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Aarmari Quino帽ez, 24, adds sugar water to a hive he and his family keep at a garden in Hartford. 鈥淲e learn from bees all the time,鈥� says Quino帽ez, "You can take some bees from separate hives and they can create a colony ... working together instead of working as one individual can make a lot more of a difference. It takes a village to raise a colony.鈥�
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— BIPOC farmer Herb Virgo connecticut agriculture
Morning light glances over a honeycomb frame in one of the Keney Park hives operated by young beekeepers Aarmari Quino帽ez, Aarmere Jackson and their mom, Aarvah Quino帽ez.
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— BIPOC farmer Herb Virgo connecticut agriculture
Wearing a protective suit, Aarmere Jackson carries a tray of freshly harvested honeycomb from hives he and his family keep at the Keney Park Sustainability Project in Windsor.
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— BIPOC farmer Herb Virgo connecticut agriculture
Described as 鈥淵oda鈥� by young beekeeper Aarmere Jackson for his expertise and knowledge, master beekeeper Peter Ferreira inspects honeycomb harvested from bees managed by Jackson鈥檚 family at the Keney Park Sustainability Project in Windsor. Ferreira鈥檚 beekeeping history is generations long and traces back to his family鈥檚 roots in Portugal.
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— BIPOC farmer Herb Virgo connecticut agriculture
Aarvah Quino帽ez (left) air-dries hive frames with Herb Virgo while tending to her family鈥檚 bees at Virgo鈥檚 Keney Park Sustainability Project in Windsor. Quino帽ez鈥檚 19-year-old son, Aarmere Jackson, credits Virgo with helping his family get started in beekeeping after taking a class at Keney Park.
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Bees managed by Aarvah Quino帽ez and her family cluster around honeycomb in their hive box at the Keney Park Sustainability Project.
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A bee descends on a sunflower at a garden in Hartford as, behind the scenes, beekeepers Aarmari Quino帽ez, Aarmere Jackson and their mom, Aarvah Quino帽ez, tend to some of the hives they operate throughout the region. "It's just awesome to watch," says Jackson when describing the growth of a hive into "thousands of bees," adding, 鈥渉oney is honey is good, you know, it's just everybody loves honey."
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— BIPOC farmer Herb Virgo connecticut agriculture
Master beekeeper Peter Ferreira (left) consults with new beekeeper Aarvah Quino帽ez and Herb Virgo of the Keney Park Sustainability Project. With her beekeeping business relatively new, Quino帽ez says information from other beekeepers better prepares her for problems with the hives. 鈥淭here are problems I know about that I have never seen yet. But I feel confident that when I run into it now, I'll be able to take care of it because of the knowledge I get from the family, the community, of beekeepers,鈥� she said.
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Aarmere Jackson, 19, mops sweat off his face trying to cool down after wearing a full-body bee suit while working with his family鈥檚 hives at a garden in Hartford. 鈥淧eople see me with dreads. I usually wear hoodies 鈥� black pants 鈥� you know what I鈥檓 saying? So people, a lot of times think like, 鈥極h, he's like some really rude, mean kid.鈥� But you take the time to talk to me 鈥� I'm pretty nice. I'm pretty open-minded. And I genuinely like to help people most of the time. So don't judge too harshly just on appearances.鈥�
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Working as part of a family operation called the Aasaaska Foundation, two brothers manage beehives throughout Hartford. The pair discussed honey, perceptions of beekeepers and what people can learn from bees.
Hear the brothers pour sugar water to help with honey production and puff smoke into the hive to keep the bees under control. (Originally aired: 8/22/2022)
Gary Carter, Cassius Spears Sr., Jeremy Whipple
鈥淕iving thanks was knowing that we were the weaker ones and not the ones that were dominant over all life.鈥�
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Using a sharp-edged stone he found while preparing fields for planting, Roberto Rivera cuts weed-control tarps at the Meechoook Farm operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.
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With early morning sunlight illuminating the greenhouses at Meechoook Farm, farm manager Cassius Spears Sr. (left) and director Jeremy Whipple coordinate their plan for the day.
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Meechoook Farm manager Cassius Spears Sr. inspects hydroponic tomatoes growing in one of two greenhouses at the farm.
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Bryan Holder, 35, of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, guides vines working their way up lines in one of the two greenhouses on the Meechoook Farm operated by the Mashantucket Pequots.
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Delicate leaves of lettuce started from seed are prepared to be transferred to larger hydroponic growing chambers inside one of the Meechoook Farm鈥檚 greenhouses. The mature, full-sized heads of lettuce will be used, in part, to supply restaurants at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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Hydroponic- and greenhouse-grown heads of lettuce at the Mashantucket Pequot Meechoook Farm are warmed by the morning sun before being harvested to supply Foxwoods.
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Randolph Young harvests hydroponically grown lettuce inside a greenhouse at the Meechoook Farm operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.
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Farm manager Cassius Spears Sr. (left) of the Narragansett Tribe and Bryan Holder of the Mashantucket Pequots weigh boxes of zucchini being prepared for distribution to Foxwoods.
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Signs are posted around Meechoook Farm indicating the Native American words for plants and animals.
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Micheal Martins of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation pets one of the pigs the nation is raising on its Meechoook Farm.
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A bee harvests food inside a zucchini flower at the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation鈥檚 Meechoook Farm.
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Bryan Holder takes a break to wipe his brow while clearing weeds off land where fall crops will be planted at the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation鈥檚 Meechoook Farm.
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A young strawberry plant, an integral food for Mashantucket Pequots, grows in soil at the tribal nation鈥檚 Meechoook Farm.
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Bryan Holder places a sign outside the recently opened farm stand operated by the Mashantucket Pequots as a place to sell goods and produce grown on their Meechoook Farm.
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Crookneck squash, zucchini and tomatoes harvested from the Mashantucket Pequot鈥檚 Meechoook Farm are displayed on shelves at the tribal nation鈥檚 farm stand.
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Jeremy Whipple, director of the Mashantucket Pequot鈥檚 Meechoook Farm, says goodbye to a team of UConn researchers partnering with the tribal nation to expand the farm鈥檚 outreach and broaden its goods and services.
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On hundreds of acres of abundant tribal land, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and its recently formed Department of Agriculture are farming in forests, fields and hydroponic greenhouses. Three farmers discussed food, harvests and giving thanks throughout the year.
The conversation began with strawberries. (Originally aired: 8/8/2022)
James Faison, 87
"I do what I can today. What I can鈥檛 do, I let it go. If I wake up tomorrow morning, I鈥檒l start all over again."
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— Mr. James "Bo Beep" Faison BIPOC Farmers New Haven
鈥淏o Peep" works the soil outside his New Haven home, continuing a farming tradition he has practiced since childhood in North Carolina.
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— Mr. James "Bo Beep" Faison BIPOC Farmers New Haven
On his plot in New Haven, 87-year-old James "Bo Peep" Faison, works the soft warm soil of the New Haven plot he has been cultivating for years. 鈥淎s long as I can get up and go, I鈥檓 gonna keep doin鈥� it.鈥�
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"Without farms," says Faison, "We'd be lost."
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"We're made from this dirt here, according to the good book," says Faison, "So I get to come out and talk to plants, 'Doing good today fellas...love you.' If the need water water, I water them."
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Morning sunlight warms a flower and a bee working alongside the produce Faison grows on a plot in New Haven adjacent to his home.
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— Mr. James "Bo Beep" Faison BIPOC Farmers New Haven
Faison checks the plants he grows on a small rectangle of land outside his New Haven home.
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James "Bo Beep" Faison is an 87-year-old New Haven resident who grew up on a farm in North Carolina and now grows outside his home. The farming, he says, keeps him alive in both body and spirit. 鈥淚 do what I can today. What I can鈥檛 do, I let it go. If I wake up tomorrow morning, I鈥檒l start all over again. That's me. That's today I'm living for. Tomorrow come 鈥� I take care of tomorrow.鈥�
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— Mr. James "Bo Beep" Faison BIPOC Farmers New Haven
Faison rests his hand on a vegetable stake while working the land outside his New Haven home.
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— Mr. James "Bo Beep" Faison BIPOC Farmers New Haven
87-year-old James 鈥淏o Peep Faison continues a farming tradition he has practiced since childhood in North Carolina. 鈥淣ot much has changed about it,鈥� he reflects, 鈥淚t鈥檚 the same thing, same earth. Without farming, we鈥檇 be lost.鈥�
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At a small plot of land in a New Haven neighborhood, a farmer known as "Bo Beep" says farming keeps him alive in body and in spirit. (Originally aired: 7/18/22)
Lauren Little, 33
"Many of them have come to me and been like, 鈥榊ou鈥檙e the only Black teacher that I鈥檝e had before.鈥� Or, 鈥業 didn鈥檛 know there were Black farmers.鈥� That hurt me."
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Lauren Little leads a mindfulness session at the start of her gardening class. 鈥淎 lot of my activities encompass mindfulness,鈥� says Little. 鈥淵ou get more oxygen into your brain. That's good. Giving students a time to think, you know, sometimes they need extra minutes to process things or to like, reflect. Even if they decide not to become farmers, the skills that they learned are important.鈥�
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Lauren Little waters plants in beds she maintains behind Hartford鈥檚 Free Space. With farmland scarce in Hartford urban landscape, Little farms at small locations around the city.
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Farmer Lauren Little (left to right) reacts as nine-year-old Mariah Mendez and Mayra Alamo sample some of the greens little grows at Hartford鈥檚 Free Center. As advocate for the potential of farming to strengthen communities, Little says, 鈥淓veryone loves food. So it doesn't matter, like who you are on what you're doing. There's a there's a way for you to develop that connection.鈥�
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In garden plots behind Hartford鈥檚 Free Center, farmer and educator Lauren Little talks with participants in one of her farming workshops. 鈥淭he reason why I started growing food and teaching kids how to grow food,鈥� says Little, 鈥淚s that I was studying psychology, I learned about how students鈥� academic achievement is directly tied to their nutrition.鈥�
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Participants in Lauren Little鈥檚 farming class, Shanelle Morris and Jose Crespo (left to right) tend to vegetables growing behind Hartford鈥檚 Free Space on New Britain Ave.
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Squash leaves are lit by afternoon sun coming down behind Hartford鈥檚 Free Center, one of a half-dozen or so plots around Hartford where Lauren Little farms.
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Urban farmer Lauren Little leads a class to mulberries growing on a tree along New Britain Ave. 鈥淚 know Harford has a lot of fruit trees, some of them are public, some of them private,鈥� she says, 鈥淚f it's hanging on the sidewalk, I will eat it,鈥� says Little. 鈥淧eople are gonna get mad at me for eating a fruit? The birds can eat the fruits. I can't eat the fruits?鈥�
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Lauren Little sifts through a compost pile on the edge of a parking lot where she farms at Hartford鈥檚 Free Space.
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Strawberry lover A鈥橲his Barron, 5, hunts for fruit on a hillside farmed by Lauren Little at Hartford鈥檚 Free Space. In tandem with the classes, Barron鈥檚 father, Tyronne Waterman, (right) has been expanding the size and scope of the vegetable garden he tends to at his Hartford home.
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Farmer Lauren Little (left) offers a strawberry to five-year-old A鈥橲hia Barron who came with her father and brother to one of Little鈥檚 Saturday morning farming-education program at Hartford鈥檚 Free Space.
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Behind Hartford鈥檚 Free Center, farmer and educator Lauren Little samples berries growing on one of the nearby trees. 鈥淚 know Harford has a lot of fruit trees, some of them are public, some of them private. If it's hanging on the sidewalk, I will eat it,鈥� says Little. 鈥淧eople are gonna get mad at me for eating a fruit? The birds can eat the fruits. I can't eat the fruits?鈥�
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Lauren Little scans the sky for flying predators while farming her plots behind Hartford鈥檚 Free Center. With farmland scarce in Hartford鈥檚 urban landscape, Little farms at about a half dozen plots around the city.
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Lauren Little harvests vegetables from her New Britain Ave. plots to take home for dinner. Explaining, in part, why she grows food, Little says, 鈥淚 feel like I'm doing something good for the environment but also, farmers don't have all that much money. So I also need to grow the foods I can eat.鈥�
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A variety of tools and colors rest in the grass around Lauren Little鈥檚 growing beds behind Hartford Free Center. With farmland scarce in Hartford鈥檚 urban landscape, Little is required to bring the tools with her as she travels the city to her plots. 鈥淓ven if I'm walking with my tools, I can't just have my shovel. I got to be careful because someone might think I have a weapon or the police might get called and I might get shot and so it's just like I got to be super careful.鈥�
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Putting away her hose at the of her farming day, Lauren Little walks past photographs on exhibit at Hartford鈥檚 Free Space, one of the many spots around Hartford where she grows.
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Urban farmer Lauren Little loads her gardening tools into the back of an Uber for her ride home. 鈥淓ven if I'm walking with my tools, I can't just have my shovel. I got to be careful because someone might think I have a weapon or the police might get called and I might get shot and so it's just like I got to be super careful.鈥�
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The founder of Lauren Little Edutainment says farming fosters connection. As she filled up a bucket of water near a busy street, Lauren Little showed that her lessons often begin by pulling food out of the ground and taking a bite. (Originally aired: 7/11/22)
Sarah Rose Kareem, 29, & Azeem Zakir Kareem, 29
鈥�She was like, 鈥榃hy is no one coming? This is so strange. Why is no one here?鈥� I'm like, 'cuz you got a Black dude here.鈥� This isn't a place where you just find Black people walking around.鈥�
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Azeem Zakir Kareem aligns irrigation pipes on land he farms with his wife, Sarah Rose Kareem, in Windsor Locks, 黑料吃瓜网.
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Sarah Rose Kareem and Azeem Zakir Kareem harvest lettuce and clear footpaths on their Windsor Locks farm.
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Azeem Zakir Kareem hauls sprinkler heads from storage to a field he is preparing for planting. 鈥淚n order to come back to where we have to be, not just as Black people, not just Native American people 鈥� but as a whole planet 鈥� we have to come back to agriculture,鈥� said Kareem.
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Azeem Zakir Kareem brushes gently past his wife, Sarah Rose Kareem, while the two tend to lettuce rows at their Windsor Locks farm.
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Water showers fresh-cut lettuce as Sarah Rose Kareem cleans the harvest on the Windsor Locks farm she manages with her husband, Azeem Zakir Kareem.
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Azeem Zakir Kareem sets up irrigation lines on the Windsor Locks land where he farms with wife Sarah Rose Kareem.
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Water showers fresh-cut lettuce as Sarah Rose Kareem cleans the harvest on the Windsor Locks farm she manages with her husband, Azeem Zakir Kareem.
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Azeem Zakir Kareem jumps over a sprinkle pipe junction while preparing his fields for irrigation. 鈥淵ou start working in that soil, and there's things 鈥� there's biology inside the soil that sends a light signal through your nervous system that hits your brain, that has your brain release beautiful, joyous chemistry that makes you feel good,鈥� said Kareem.
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Speaking on a windy day outside their Windsor Locks farm, the married co-founders of Samad Gardens Initiative celebrate the freedom they鈥檝e found farming, but they say customers at farmers markets treat them differently depending on who鈥檚 behind the stand. (Originally aired: 6/27/22)
X贸chitl Garcia, 26
鈥淕rowing up, my family made agriculture a taboo subject because it was a method of survival.鈥�
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鈥淎griculture, for me, is reconnecting with our indigenous ancestors,鈥� says X贸chitl Garcia, who farms land at the Ferry Street community garden in Fair Haven.
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In the weeds, X贸chitl Garcia clears her 4-by-8-foot plot of land in the Ferry Street community garden in Fair Haven, where there is a waitlist for 56 growing beds. 鈥淢y parents themselves were farmworkers, but they just called it work,鈥� says Garcia.
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Preparing to plant, X贸chitl Garcia breathes in the smell of epazote seeds. 鈥淕rowing up,鈥� she says, 鈥渕y family made agriculture a taboo subject because it was a method of survival rather than a passion-seeking career.鈥�
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Hauling topsoil, X贸chitl Garcia moves through young plants at the Ferry Street community garden in Fair Haven, where there is a waitlist for 56 growing beds.
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Farm supervisor Billy Flynn and X贸chitl Garcia (left) share a laugh over tomato and pepper plants Flynn gifted Garcia for her plot in a Fair Haven community garden.
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Gently tapping the soil, X贸chitl Garcia nestles a tomato plant into a new bed at the Fair Haven community garden where she farms. 鈥淚 actually feel very proud having dirt on me,鈥� she said, 鈥渓ooking all sweaty and tired because this is all my passion and energy that's going into cultivating something."
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After planting her bed, X贸chitl Garcia hugs her friend Ruth Garcia, one of the founders of the Fair Haven community garden on Ferry Street.
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A woman explores how farming intersects with her Mexican identity while working at a community garden in New Haven. (Originally aired: 6/13/22)
Liz Guerra, 37 & H茅ctor Gerardo, 38
鈥淲e are not a traditional 鈥榓g鈥� family 鈥� We came here with a dream and a compost box.鈥�
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H茅ctor Gerardo backs his first tractor out of the garage, careful to avoid the family van.
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Elizabeth Guerra and H茅ctor Gerardo look out over their homestead farm in Danbury.
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H茅ctor Gerardo's garlic is coming in nicely now that squirrels have stopped eating it each night. The secret is a little cayenne pepper.
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The co-owners of Seamarron Farmstead in Danbury want you to know that 鈥淏lack farmers do exist and BIPOC farmers 鈥� in 黑料吃瓜网.鈥� They describe a farming journey that started on a New York City fire escape and led to their farm, where they grow everything from garlic to hemp in the backyard of their 黑料吃瓜网 homestead. (Originally aired: 6/6/22)
