Photographer John Ficara has a beautiful traveling exhibit as part of his “American Black Farmers Project,” which the media, including this piece in the Roanoke Times, is reporting during Black History Month. The series purports to document the demise of black family farmers in the United States. A description of Ficara’s photos, says “Through his photographs we feel their dignity, grace, humor and spirit as they battle the onslaught of globalization, changing agricultural technology, and discriminatory lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.” Check out Ficara’s online gallery to see more image, though there aren’t many Farmgirls in the mix. This photo of 91-year-old Rosa Murphy appears in a couple of stories I’ve seen.
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Hey thanks for featuring this photo exhibit. I am a virtual farmgirl too, only in black, I real quickly looked at your links we have a lot of interests in common. I am starting a blog to try encourage black community to make lifestyle changes as energy becomes more volatile and expensive; such as investigating renewable energy esp. solar. I think we are all going to have to simplify and some of us will try to get the word out. Farming has been given such a bad rap. Peace. V.
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Hey thanks for featuring this photo exhibit. I am a virtual farmgirl too, only in black, I real quickly looked at your links we have a lot of interests in common. I am starting a blog to try encourage black community to make lifestyle changes as energy becomes more volatile and expensive; such as investigating renewable energy esp. solar. I think we are all going to have to simplify and some of us will try to get the word out. Farming has been given such a bad rap. Peace. V.
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