Farmers of color are calling on lawmakers this Congress to invest in equitable land access for the next generation.
"[JFBA] will address decades of well documented discrimination by USDA against Black farmers and ranchers and aims to empower a new generation of Black farmers," Booker tells Axios in a written statement. "Remedying these historic wrongs should not be a partisan issue."A first-generation Black-Indigenous urban farmer, Detra Iverson tells Axios that her community donated money to help her purchase less than half an acre of land last year after she struggled with USDA funding.
"As a farmer, I don't need seeds. I know where to get seeds from. I need enough capital to ensure the infrastructure and the operations and the systems of my business continue," says Iverson, a community herbalist and owner of the Love N Labor Botanicals Farm in Detroit, Michigan.
"There's a lot of barriers that are out here, not only just in the work that I do, but just as people of color growing up in the world that we live in today. And farming, it's our way to live free."
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