Following the first ever North Carolina Black Farmer Lobby Day in the 2023 legislative session, in late July, SiX co-hosted Seeds of Empowerment: Cultivating Black Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture, a tour of Black-owned farms with Senator Natalie Murdock and Representative (and farmer!) Ray Jeffers in the Durham/Raleigh area. North Carolina legislators joined advocates for a…
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For much of the U.S. (and world) it’s already been a blisteringly hot summer shattering global temperature highs and putting millions of people at risk. In contrast, in some…
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It’s not just temperatures that are soring, so is the Ag Team’s excitement about what we’re reading and engaging with this summer. Check out below for your curated summer…
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According to a 2019 report, 3 to 4 million LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer) Americans, including many BIPOC Americans, live in rural communities, accounting for 15-20% of the…
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If you’ve been following or working with SiX for a while, you might have heard us talk about the CROP (Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity) but may have…
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