Liberation Farming on Sapelo Island

Dr Nik Heynen’s long time partnership with Saltwater Geechee activist Maurice Bailey and the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society is bearing fruit – sugar, actually.  SICAR’s agricultural project is to reestablish heritage crops on Sapelo Island in order to enable a future for Gullah/Geechee people in the face of development on the island.  Their work was recently profiled in the New York Times.

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Reviving a crop and an African American culture, stalk by stalk

Personnel


Nik Heynen

Distinguished Research Professor, Visiting Scholar, Spelman College, Co-Director, UGA's Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land and Agriculture
nheynen@uga.edu

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