K&J Farms carries on legacy of Black farmers | NJ Business Beat

[@thaliawoodson2776]

Im 62 and just planted tomatoes and cucumbers for the first time. Exciting

[@cynthiadelva7698]

It is so fun growing veggies

[@michaelsherron7815]

Wow! Awesome! I hope you plan some this year too and even more.😀

[@bigboy3454]

In the early 1900s, there were approximately 1 million Black farmers who collectively owned about 20 million acres of land. However, due to the extreme systemic racism and discrimination faced by Black Americans, today, there are only around 50,000 Black farmers who own about 3.5 million acres of land. This is yet another reason why reparations are owed.

[@sonjiharvey2722]

So Amazing! A legacy passed down and reserved from generation to generations. Wonderful how you give back to others!

[@carolynsteele1465]

What a lush, clean, beautiful, and well-maintained farm! I remember when farmers were called the backbone of America. They may be sharing that status with others, but they still are.

[@kershawpatton1547]

I congratulate you for being a role model for up and coming black farmers...

[@hi4ah]

Foundational Black Americans !

[@johnobrien5440]

This is a great guy! He knows his business and he takes pride. I've seen farms owned by older white folks not as well ran and not doing well. They should not judge. ALL farmers should support each other. Period.

[@belindahopkins7875]

Kids need to learn where food comes from and the work that it takes to put food in the stores .History tell us that farming was mostly done by black farmers. They may not owned the land but they were the heart of the farm.

[@kevinpoole4323]

Beautiful Lady Great Program Thank you for Supporting The Black Farmers.

[@cmarie5867]

This is amazing! May God continue to bless this man and his family. I started gardening this year and he is right a lot of hard work but SO rewarding to see your seed turn into food.

[@perfectlyimperfect492]

Beautiful work to feed the people..Thank you Sir. 🙏🏻

[@ArkRepublic]

We'd like to believe that our sister organization, Black Farmers Index, has helped elevate Black farmers across the U.S. including New Jersey. Good job K&J Farms. Next New Haven Farms

[@philipjones5364]

I am a descendant of landowners in Evergreen Alabama. We own 70 acres and it’s dormant no one is doing anything with it. We are thinking about growing Longleaf Pine trees a long term investment.

[@RevolutionaryRAYRAY]

I am proud to see reality in the Agricultural Community in North America for all the Tribes. In Georgia, Georgia House Bill 213 is different from Georgia House Bill 324 with how HERBS sometimes are the same as Vegetables, Fruit, Grown on the Tribe of GAD land for all of us. 🤲🏾🙏🏾 Blessings to you and your family

[@kevinpoole4323]

Congratulations Kenny

[@MonicaSmith-i8k]

Thanks it's blessing 🙌 🙏 2024 11 08 WOW !!!

[@michaelhemphill8575]

May "GOD" continue" to "Bless the"Black Farmer....who have had so much "stolen" from us"!!

[@kevinpoole4323]

All Purpose Black Farmer Designated

[@rovingearth7028]

Really great reporting and images.

[@clarencephillips552]

What a Blessing to See how God strengthen your Family to still Prosper may GOD Continue to Bless you and your Wife and Family be Blessed 🙏😇🙏❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ronniemarks5161]

many. many. BLESSINGS. keep. on

[@kevinpoole4323]

Thanks New Jersey Business Beat.

[@jcliff8692]

Love this brother and sister's Spirit❤

[@JohnBrown-ff6ez]

*BLESSINGS!*

[@PatrickCharlesjpc]

Excellent. Farmers are critical; my grandfather was a farmer. It's weird that some black people don't know that black farmers exist.

[@EdwardArmstrong-y3f]

Outstanding .!! Sir Humanity May God bless and keep you .!!!

[@deannastafford5762]

I love this !!

[@yogawithmarshalla]

Great feature!

[@NyrusThomas]

It reminds me of my grandfather .I was a kid when I would visit my grandfather I felt he worked so hard to live in a little shack. I couldn't understand it. Or to go into a out house or to take bath and a little tin tub or to go out side at night and couldn't see my hand. Being from the city but I learned to love it because of my grandfather. The simple things and life it was always and me but he instilled it and me even more. I miss him today because I didn't get to spend more time. Time waits on no one.

[@juttagalbory6659]

Every now and then we get some good news, even brilliant news. This is such a story. I just saw farmer Boyd of Boydton in an interview on Democracy Now. I never heard of Black farmers either, but I'm at other side of the world ;-) Take care and stay well young man. You look like a picture of health and goodness. God bless you.

[@LEGACYFOCUS]

My grandparents were poor farmers.....🎉

[@BlUESKIES1178]

Anyone who owns land is never poor

[@farnorthhomested844]

he seems pretty smart. must have listened well to his dads advice growin up.

[@AndrewOldacre-o7u]

Such a Blessing...i will be coming to pay u a visit...Black own..

[@erikapayne9348]

My neighbor across the alley, gives us collard greens, peppers and tomatoes. They are the best farming is in the soul of black people.

[@empresslonnie1love391]

Im in Philadelphia i will love to visit the farm

[@lwallace3842]

Stay with the Lord. He will create miracles for you

[@torquetrain8963]

Black Americans have always been farmers . Its the usda and racist policies that discriminated against them. Often ,many white folks are misinformed when they think that blacks just naturally aspire to an urban lifestyle and have an inherent disdain to farming and all things agricultural. kkk, racist groups and racist usda policies kicked free blacks off farms and killed black farmers. In Africa, blacks are landowners and farmers. They even wear cowboy hats and boots. So, America has alot of explaining to do. I am white by the way. I am also not a self hating white either.

[@AngelaBaker-k1p]

Love this!!

[@wannellalawson4001]

Thank you, Sir. My parents and grandparents were sharecroppers. They did not get a chance to own their land. I know they would be proud of you.

[@ALVINEL-e4v]

Now this is what education is about, learning how to survive in the real-life, this is what's needed all across the nation, establishing power is having your own, creating an institution that can be passed down so that they can continue to uplift fallen humanity!!!

[@ohboypeach]

He is a role model.

[@PhilipJanifer-ck1vq]

Good Morning Thank You So dream to get in fresh 🙏🏾🤗❣️

[@jcliff8692]

Awesome!!!!!!!

[@rhondahopkins4366]

Blessings

[@Anti-democratChick]

I wish I had my own land to grow my own foods! He's going a great job

[@nancycole-auguste6614]

ALL of us should support the black farmers and small farms everywhere and GET RID OF PESTICIDES and poisoned food.

[@joosfake]

God bless them. And let them work the land and prosper.

[@XtremeEaglesFly]

💪🏾😉💪🏾

[@sanyundekou9332]

❤

[@sherriefitzgerald7331]

❤YALL WON THANK GOD AN STILL WINNING❤

[@MonicaSmith-i8k]

I wish i could be there , to be next door lol 😆 😂 Yahuah got us

[@sistahlight-2-danations]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@queenmommie100]

May TMH God bless his chosen children on Turtle Island 🏝️ keep your children in GOSHEN MH were you have scattered US ❤😂😂. APTTMHGY 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.

[@BetzaidaM]

Awesome

[@jesuslittlegirl2710]

CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OF YOU GUYS ✝️🙏📖⛪️👋👌👏🙆‍♀️😊🙌🤗🤝👍🧎‍♀️🎊🎉🎵👩😷AMEN ✝️

[@BlUESKIES1178]

Land and food along with shelter are the foundation of a nation. If you have no land, you have nothing.

[@queenmommie100]

New Beginnings 4 The Most High God children on our homeland ❤.

[@RichardCabeza-lb7rx]

Love it ..but the reporter should have prepared a script and worked with him so he could convey his thoughts and answers . It could have been a beautiful ed piece.

[@bryanb30]

5:28 👍🏿

[@thewhatupdoegirl3584]

🥳☝🏾

[@belindahopkins7875]

Look into FFA and see if there is a program there. I am in Arizona and my degree is agriculture. Surprise all our farm land in the last two years in a place that for 60 years of my life just went into houses and warehouses 😢😢😢😢

[@MA-yv8dw]

❤😊I love this fatm

[@TheGbass87]

✊🏽👍🏽✌🏽🖐🏽🙏🏽

[@MonicaSmith-i8k]

Where are you my brother 😂

[@brandonyip840]

Looks like they’re iggles fan. lol go birds!

[@Nicole-kx9vg]

🙂

[@LoveMafae]

dark man always have to get a light skin woman

[@2cool460]

@5:11 There has been discrimination... yeah, for centuries. It continues to this day. Seemingly, that evilness, that disdainful perception of said (racially/ethnically) Black Americans is culturally inherent, an indoctrination that is perpetuated and deliberate. And that cultural conditioning of [invalid] disdainment has also for at least a couple of centuries established coalitions with "others" of said different demographical labeled groups, too. That's not hyperbole. That is factual - said the ongoing unwarranted, invalid anti-Black American racism/bigotry/discrimination.

[@empresslonnie1love391]

Whats his Ig

[@brettcinder258]

Thank you for just being a farmer. God bless the farmers. The United States government must stop attacking the farmers.🫡🇺🇸⚖️⚔️🛡

[@bobfrstcty]

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