Who Owns Our Farmland? A conversation with Jillian Hishaw.

When it comes to making farming truly sustainable in the long run, the elephant in the room is land ownership. Healthy soil matters, but so does who owns the soil.  Did you know that there were nearly 1 million Black farmers in 1920 and fewer than 45 thousand today? Overall Black landowners own only 0.8 percent of land in the US today. What accounts for this huge racial disparity in land ownership? We’ve brought in agricultural law expert and farmer advocate Jillian Hishaw to help teach all of us some important legal lessons that shape everything about who farms in the US. Episode Show Notes:Learn more about Jillian by heading to her website. You can also get in touch with her by emailing info@jillianhishaw.comFollow Jillian on Instagram, Facebook, and TwitterYou can pre-order Jillian's book, "Systematic Land Theft" here. You can get Jillian's other book, "Don't Bet the Farm on Medicaid" here. For a full breakdown of who is farming in the United States, check out the most recent USDA Census.Jillian's go-to Karaoke song is "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" by Natalie Cole. 

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