Little Farms on the Prairie Bow to a Wal-Mart Era. Laurent Belsie.
by Belsie, Laurent; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 25Environment. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): African American farmers | Agricultural biotechnology | Agricultural diversification | Agricultural industries | Agriculture -- Economic aspects | Farms -- Small | Great Plains | Kansas | Rural development | Sustainable agricultureDDC classification: 050 Summary: "More than a century ago, some 350 freed slaves left the Kentucky hardscrabble for a new beginning on the Kansas prairie. Promoters billed Nicodemus as 'the Promised Land,' and while some would-be pioneers turned back as soon as they saw it, most stayed and created the largest exclusively black settlement west of the Mississippi River. The town prospered for a while, in anticipation of a railroad. But the train never came, and drought, depression, and a postwar exodus reduced its population until its little white schoolhouse had to close in the late 1950s. Today [2003], even the school bus doesn't stop here anymore. And all those 19th-century dreams of agricultural independence have come to rest on the shoulders of one man, Gil Alexander--the last full-time farmer in Nicodemus." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article comments upon the economic impact that commodity agriculture has on rural towns and presents ways in which farmers can diversify their production in order to revitalize the economies of rural communities| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Little Farms on the Prairie Bow to a Wal-Mart Era, Feb. 12, 2003; pp. n.p..
"More than a century ago, some 350 freed slaves left the Kentucky hardscrabble for a new beginning on the Kansas prairie. Promoters billed Nicodemus as 'the Promised Land,' and while some would-be pioneers turned back as soon as they saw it, most stayed and created the largest exclusively black settlement west of the Mississippi River. The town prospered for a while, in anticipation of a railroad. But the train never came, and drought, depression, and a postwar exodus reduced its population until its little white schoolhouse had to close in the late 1950s. Today [2003], even the school bus doesn't stop here anymore. And all those 19th-century dreams of agricultural independence have come to rest on the shoulders of one man, Gil Alexander--the last full-time farmer in Nicodemus." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article comments upon the economic impact that commodity agriculture has on rural towns and presents ways in which farmers can diversify their production in order to revitalize the economies of rural communities
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