Over the years there has been a decline in the number of Black farmers in the United States. But, as Delmarva Public Media’s Kevin Diaz reports, there has been a small resurgence on the Eastern Shore.
RUSH: By some estimates, the peak of black farming in the United States was 1910 when 14% of American farms were African-American owned. Today it’s about 2%, but as Delmarva Public Media’s Kevin Diaz reports, black farming may be undergoing a small resurgence.
DIAZ: Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, Thelonious Cook had no plans to become a farmer. He had a background in IT. He was inspired only after he discovered his family owned a small, overgrown piece of land in Virginia’s Northampton County, on the lower Eastern Shore…