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Mar 27, 2018 · Meet the Modern Farmer: Chris Newman. “There’s a completeness about it that was missing with my 9-to-5 job, where I was making a living, but not necessarily a life.”. by Lynne Palazzi March 27, 2018. For Chris Newman, becoming a farmer had been a distant dream, the kind he might pursue in his golden years.
Nov 19, 2021 · In 2013, Chris Newman started Sylvanaqua Farms to raise chickens and pigs sustainably, and to become an example of a Black and Indigenous farmer who could make it work among the overwhelmingly white crowd of U.S. farm owners.
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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.
Chris Newman, founder of Sylvanaqua Farms, goes deep into the issues of single family farms and the potential of collectives to manage whole landscapes way more effectively to produce...
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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.
Building a new, accessible, open, and democratic food economy in the Chesapeake Bay region @ Sylvanaqua Farms. Read writing from Chris Newman on Medium. Open in app
Chris Newman is a farmer in Charlottesville working towards a sustainable, healthy and organic future for his family and community. Yet despite this, Chris, as a black man faces racial profiling and discrimination on a regular basis.
