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Mar 28, 2024 · By Jacqui Shine on March 28, 2024. The first-generation farmer wants new farmers to stop thinking about individual small farms and start thinking about cooperatives. Chris Newman is building a cooperative structure to support his and other farms. Photography courtesy of Sylvanaqua Farms. Through his outspoken social media presence, farmer Chris ...
Chris Newman describes himself as a farmer and indigenous food sovereignty advocate in Central Virginia who is tall, skinny, light-skinned with green eyes, and growing a great and wooly beard for totally non-political reasons. He’s out to democratize food and agriculture in the Washington D.C. region by building a vertically-integrated ...
Jul 25, 2019 · Chris Newman is a farmer in Virginia’s Northern Neck. He’s tall and skinny and is growing a great and woolly beard for totally non-political reasons. If you like what you’ve just read, please consider a click on that there green heart thing. And if you really like what you just read, please consider a pledge to our Kickstarter.
Jan 9, 2023 · Chris Newman. 8.8K Followers. Building a new, accessible, open, and democratic food economy in the Chesapeake Bay region @ Sylvanaqua Farms. Read writing from Chris Newman on Medium. Building a new, accessible, open, and democratic food economy in the Chesapeake Bay region @ Sylvanaqua Farms.
Nov 19, 2020 · In a widely shared September 4 Medium post, fellow Virginia farmer and blogger Chris Newman concluded that Salatin is a “great farmer, but somewhere along the way he got convinced that he can ...
Mar 1, 2023 · Chris Newman is the founder of Sylvanaqua Farms, Skywoman, Pilikeku Media, and the Blackbird Poultry Cooperative. Support this work by sharing this article, signing up for Chris’ Patreon, and/or making a donation to our farm’s mutual aid pool.
Jan 25, 2024 · “I’m a Black farmer. I hire white people to staff my farmer’s market stall so people don’t walk by without stopping.” “I’m a Black farmer. People are either really excited or really angry when I talk about racism in agriculture.” Chris Newman shook up the internet with his candid take on life as a Black farmer.
