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May 24, 2017 · A black farmer has the internet talking after posting a powerful message on social media about race relations in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chris Newman, owner of the Sylvanaqua Farms in Albemarle County, shared his thoughts on a recent “Love Trumps Hate” counter-protest on Saturday.
Aug 20, 2020 · Three years ago, Chris shared his thoughts as local Black farmer with a Facebook post about the racial profiling he’d experienced in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the time, the Alt-Right’s Unite The Right Rally was taking place in Lee Park, and Newman typed his Farming While Black truth with raw emotion and pressed the send button.
Nov 19, 2021 · Newman heard about the remark and fired four people, including Beary. The others, including Escobedo and Proctor, resigned. He forgave the loan he gave them and gave the fired employees severance packages.
- Alan Yu
Feb 19, 2023 · Chris Newman is the founder of Sylvanaqua Farms, a company that grows pastured meats and eggs in Virginia. He also started Skywoman, a community-based consulting organization that helps people organize their food sovereignty.
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...
Dec 10, 2019 · At a recent session in dairy-rich Stearns County, about 30 people listened as Glen Bloomstrom, a retired Army chaplain and suicide prevention trainer with LivingWorks Education, said farmers...
Nov 19, 2017 · Chris Newman is a farmer in central Virginia. He’s tall and skinny and is growing a great and woolly beard for totally non-political reasons.
