Photo by Cynthia Vagnetti


 
 

African-American farmers have historically provided rural communities with produce that is typical to their cultural tastes.  Today most African-American farmers are nearing retirement and the question of who will continue farming lingers on the horizon.  The opportunities for farmers of the south are opening up in specialty markets both locally and regionally.
- Cynthia Vagnetti


 

RealAudio: Ephron Lewis

Ephron Lewis - Memphis, Tennessee

Farming is something you've got to love it to do it.  There's alot of things that you can gain from it...everything that I have gained in my lifetime has been through meeting of other people.  On a day-to-day basis, just giving a helping hand - a good word of encouragement to somebody is something that I really love.  I say that I don't see how a person could farm and not be religious.  You've got to have touch with somebody that has more to offer - more power than you.  You just can't deal with it on your own.  When you think that you can deal with it on your own, I think you are going at it in the wrong way.  I always believe that whatever I wanted to do, and if I prayed about it and thought about it, I felt that it will always come to be, and that's part of my life...people talk about they want to die with their boots on.  I tell them I want to die on the farm.  This is what I am about.


 
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