{"id":11262,"date":"2021-09-03t15:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-03t15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/recipes-for-food-security-dollars-and-diversity-why-young-farmers-need-investment-representation\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03t15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03t15:00:46","slug":"dollars-diversity-young-farmers-need-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/dollars-diversity-young-farmers-need-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"recipes for food security | dollars and diversity: why young farmers need investment, representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">omaha, nebraska \u2014 decker woods was elbow-deep in a bin full of kale. he was boxing up an order for a local juicery, one of a few business deals he set up as a new urban farmer. he only got into the trade nine months ago, and is also a rapper and video editor \u2014 all work that makes up his income.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cit\u2019s really healing to be able to tend to a space where food comes from,\u201d said woods, shoveling fistfuls of leafy greens into bins. \u201cyou put love in and you get love out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">woods is 24 years old and is part of a nonprofit urban farming program in omaha, nebraska called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigmuddyurbanfarm.org\/\"><u>big muddy urban farm<\/u><\/a>, which houses burgeoning young farmers rent-free, hands them $10,000 and a few urban plots, and guides them to build a business plan to pay back the loan. then, they get to growing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cit\u2019s like a simulation of a business,\u201d woods said. the aspiring farmers get to hop in for a year with a financial safety net from years before if profits don\u2019t cover costs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">the program minimizes some of the financial barriers that keep potential farmers from entering the industry, like low profit. many farmers have a working partner to make up a living income every year or a second job, like woods, who raps and produces freelance videos.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">for producers, small-scale urban operations also avoid the financial challenges of buying swaths of expensive cropland. these farmers can\u2019t grow enough food to fill huge orders, so they\u2019re dependent on small and individual buyers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">about 50 to 60 customers buy from big muddy\u2019s community supported agriculture. avenues to fresh produce are needed in the omaha-council bluffs metro area, where <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelandscapeomaha.org\/health\/access-to-healthy-foods\">9%<\/a><\/u>&nbsp;of people live in a food desert, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelandscapeomaha.org\/about-us\/about\"><u>the landscape<\/u><\/a>, a data collection project of the omaha community foundation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">nationally, <a href=\"https:\/\/omahafoundation.org\/indicator\/health\/\">4% of people live in a food desert<\/a>, an area where at least 1 in 3 live at least a mile from a grocery store and 1 in 5 people live below the poverty line.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>wide lens <\/strong>a third of the globe lives in urban areas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/unhabitat.org\/global-state-of-metropolis-2020-%e2%80%93-population-data-booklet\">a 2020 report<\/a> from un habitat, which predicts that share will grow to 39%&nbsp;by 2035. at the same time, global demand for food will increase 70%&nbsp;by 2050, predicts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/financialsector\/brief\/agriculture-finance\">the world bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">money is a concern for producers, too. the farmers in big muddy\u2019s program, like many young farmers, pick up odd jobs to keep their budget sheets in the black. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nass.usda.gov\/publications\/highlights\/2020\/young-producers.pdf\"><u>usda census<\/u><\/a> reports that 65% of young farmers have a primary occupation other than farming.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">with enough land, \u201ci can grow as much food as i want, but if there\u2019s nobody to buy it then i\u2019m not going to make any money,\u201d woods said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"two masculine hands hold two orange squash.\" height=\"533\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/woods_vegetables.png\" \/><figcaption>decker woods holds out vegetables that were just ready to be picked from one plot on big muddy farms in omaha, nebraska, july 6, 2021 (photo by jules struck).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>a \u2018big safety net\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">when sophia cooper was a kid, she would catch fish in her hands in the trash-filled creek by her house in council bluffs, iowa. as a 20-year-old, she talked about that love of kicking around outside all day, and channeled that into her own farming and volunteer work, introducing kids in omaha to gardening and growing food.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cwe always think kids aren\u2019t paying attention, but they\u2019re so good outside,\u201d she said. \u201cthey\u2019ll dig in the soil, they don\u2019t care if they\u2019re dirty. they have no cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">cooper is another resident at big muddy, and a senior at university of nebraska omaha, where she studies secondary education. she said she has options for what to do in the future, like teaching, wool farming, or cannabis farming, but she has to factor-in how to make a living.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">the initial costs of starting a farm are daunting. \u201cfarmland typically stays within families for years and years, and then it\u2019s expensive,\u201d she said. \u201cif you don\u2019t have access to income already, then you\u2019re just not going to get it. you\u2019re just never going to be able to buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">only 4% of farmland was expected to be sold from 2014 to19, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/webdocs\/publications\/74672\/eib-161.pdf?v=42.9\"><u>usda report<\/u><\/a>, with 38% of those sales between relatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>wide lens <\/strong>lending to smallholder farmers is difficult, according to the world bank, which estimated in 2014 that their lending avenues were reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.worldbank.org\/en\/publication\/documents-reports\/documentdetail\/229791468222870138\/acceso-a-las-finanzas-para-pequenos-productores-agropecuarios-lecciones-de-las-experiencias-de-instituciones-microfinancieras-en-america-latina\">less than 10 percent<\/a> of smallholders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">cooper says free rent and land from big muddy are a big help, but she still works tutoring and waitressing gigs on the side.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">woods said he knows people who are interested in starting their own farms, but it\u2019s just too expensive for them to get started. for him, it\u2019s a \u201cbig safety net\u201d to not have to pay for rent and land, he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">he could make the move to farming because \u201ci didn\u2019t put any risk into it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>representation matters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">woods had been interested in sustainable agriculture before he ever considered farming in nebraska, but didn\u2019t see people of color represented in his community until he took an online class run by ron finley, a black urban farmer and fashion designer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201ci was like, \u2018oh, black people can grow food,\u2019\u201d woods said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">black farmers in america have historically faced significant social and economic barriers to owning and operating their own land. after emancipation, the u.s. government failed to implement a land settlement plan, leaving many former slaves with no economically viable option for buying land, according to a usda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.usda.gov\/files\/rr194.pdf\"><u>report<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">the decades following saw mixed progress for black farmers. land ownership increased, but most black farmers faced \u201ceconomic stagnation\u201d fueled by racist jim crow laws, according to the report. and while the new deal of the 1930s shored up subsidies for white farmers, black farm ownership decreased from lack of access to those programs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">today, only 5% of american farmers are people of color, according to the usda census, though their numbers grew&nbsp; 7.5% from 2012 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">young, diverse farmers need to see their peers in the farming community, woods said. until finley\u2019s class, he couldn\u2019t see farming in his future. woods said, \u201ci always thought agriculture was important, i just never could see myself being the person to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a woman in casual attire bends over to work in a lush agricultural field.\" height=\"533\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/sophia_cooper.jpg\" \/><figcaption>sophia cooper reaches into the vegetable patch on one of big muddy farms\u2019 plots in omaha, nebraska, july 6, 2021. crops are rotated each year on the farm to avoid depleting the soil of nutrients (photo by jules struck).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">cooper wound her way under the beaming july sun through omaha\u2019s gifford park neighborhood, where big muddy\u2019s plots are scattered like neat, leafy vistas. she skirted behind a house to arrive at one of the farm\u2019s chicken coops.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cit\u2019s very hard to find a space,\u201d she said, surveying the chickens. \u201cbeing a woman, being a woman of color, like, where do i get accepted in this field?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">back at the house, woods finished packing up his kale for susan safia. she\u2019s the founder of life elixir juice and a young, black woman. they packed the greens into safia\u2019s car and haggled congenially for a moment over the price.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cthe things that i can find locally, i really want to support because it helps my business,\u201d she said. \u201ci can say that this produce came locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">woods said he sees more and more people interested in where their food comes from. \u201ci think people are just getting tired of living (a) life where they don\u2019t actually get to connect with the earth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">across the street, the rows of cucumbers, melons, and squash that woods tends ate up the summer sun.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cyou know, there\u2019s something good even in just having your own backyard vegetable garden,\u201d he said. sustainable, regenerative farming \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s the only right way to farm.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">about this series: the planet forward-fao summer 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