Lawn in the D

- Most of us have farming in us 

-ex slaves who know the land  but did not benefit from it. 

John Boyd Jr, at his 210-acre farm in Baskerville, Virginia. Boyd is a fourth-generation farmer, still fighting for black farmers’ rights and equal treatment. 

Photograph: Greg Kahn/The Guardian

There is an astonishing amount of black families who lost the farms abandoned by their former masters and built up bit by bit in the Days of Reconstruction - cut short by laws like Dred Scott 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019

/apr/29/why-have-americas-black-farmers-dissappeared

 Here also  is an 

NPR /The Reveal  story Audio 

https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/losing-ground-rebroadcast-2/on how we black agrarians still get screwed by FDA/ USDA policies

 and the forever problem of increasing taxes

 The only farming most of us do is the Lawn- a suburban status symbol since in my zip-code spending 2500 a year is the average.

  So Saving some money this year-

 here is a one minute video of what it takes    https://vimeo.com/429834865