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Fighting Black Land Loss Helps Birds, Too
October 18, 2021

By Xander Peters, Reporter Audubon magazine, Fall 2021 (Posted with permission) Efforts to reform heirs’ property laws are expanding access [...]

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Fourtee Acres Farm Shows Power Of Legacy
October 11, 2021

The Carolinian Newspaper October 7, 2021 By Tyria McCray, Staff Writer   One word, Legacy. That alone encompasses Fourtee Acres [...]

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Virtual conference for region’s forest landowners scheduled for Oct. 26-27
October 1, 2021

AULANDER, N.C., Oct. 1, 2021 – Forest landowners in northeastern North Carolina have the opportunity in late October to learn [...]

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Research Roundup: How one undergraduate student’s research seeks to improve our state’s natural resources
September 10, 2021

by Patsy McKee, Correspondent Sep 7, 2021 in Technician, the official student newspaper of NC State University. (Reprinted with permission)  [...]

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UAPB Small Farm Program Enhancing Land, Helping Producers One Farm at a Time
September 9, 2021

by Will Hehemann | School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences UAPB Small Farm Program Enhancing Land, Helping Producers One [...]

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Black US farmers awaiting billions in promised debt relief
September 1, 2021

By ROXANA HEGEMAN and ALLEN G. BREED for the Associated Press September 1, 2021 AP News website AP YouTube video [...]

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Moving Forward Through Farming
August 31, 2021

By Pamela A. Keene, for the September 2021 issue of “Carolina Country” magazine Self-described farmer, teacher and dreamer Kamal Bell [...]

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Federal Financial Assistance Available for Farmers and Woodland Owners; Application Deadline is Oct. 29
August 26, 2021

AHOSKIE, N.C., August 25, 2021—Farmers and woodland owners who want to take advantage of the latest round of conservation assistance [...]

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Biden Administration to Invest $67 Million to Help Heirs Resolve Land Ownership and Succession Issues
July 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2021 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced during a press conference with U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock, [...]

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Signup Period Ends July 23 for New Federal Funding to Support N.C. Conservation Practices
July 12, 2021

North Carolina is one of several states where the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is providing [...]