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

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  • @bigboy3454
    @bigboy3454 4 місяці тому +14

    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.

  • @carolynsteele1465
    @carolynsteele1465 10 місяців тому +19

    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.

  • @thaliawoodson2776
    @thaliawoodson2776 Рік тому +47

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

    • @cynthiadelva7698
      @cynthiadelva7698 4 місяці тому +1

      It is so fun growing veggies

    • @michaelsherron7815
      @michaelsherron7815 4 місяці тому

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

  • @kershawpatton1547
    @kershawpatton1547 8 місяців тому +16

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

  • @sonjiharvey2722
    @sonjiharvey2722 4 місяці тому +17

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

  • @hi4ah
    @hi4ah 4 місяці тому +23

    Foundational Black Americans !

  • @kevinpoole4323
    @kevinpoole4323 Рік тому +13

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

  • @cmarie5867
    @cmarie5867 4 місяці тому +8

    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.

  • @johnobrien5440
    @johnobrien5440 Рік тому +10

    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.

  • @perfectlyimperfect492
    @perfectlyimperfect492 8 місяців тому +11

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

  • @ArkRepublic
    @ArkRepublic Рік тому +7

    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

  • @bradr2142
    @bradr2142 12 днів тому +1

    Good job young man. Keep pushing God's gifts up. Believe in the seeds.

  • @philipjones5364
    @philipjones5364 Рік тому +10

    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.

  • @torquetrain8963
    @torquetrain8963 8 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @kevinpoole4323
    @kevinpoole4323 Рік тому +6

    All Purpose Black Farmer Designated

  • @kevinpoole4323
    @kevinpoole4323 Рік тому +6

    Congratulations Kenny

  • @michaelhemphill8575
    @michaelhemphill8575 4 місяці тому +2

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

  • @RevolutionaryRAYRAY
    @RevolutionaryRAYRAY 4 місяці тому +3

    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

  • @rovingearth7028
    @rovingearth7028 Рік тому +6

    Really great reporting and images.

  • @MonicaSmith-i8k
    @MonicaSmith-i8k 4 місяці тому +5

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

  • @kevinpoole4323
    @kevinpoole4323 Рік тому +2

    Thanks New Jersey Business Beat.

  • @juttagalbory6659
    @juttagalbory6659 4 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @jcliff8692
    @jcliff8692 4 місяці тому

    Love this brother and sister's Spirit❤

  • @clarencephillips552
    @clarencephillips552 4 місяці тому +1

    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 🙏😇🙏❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @yogawithmarshalla
    @yogawithmarshalla Рік тому +4

    Great feature!

  • @Score1more
    @Score1more Місяць тому

    Keep up the good work and keep God first.

  • @ronniemarks5161
    @ronniemarks5161 4 місяці тому +1

    many. many. BLESSINGS. keep. on

  • @JohnBrown-ff6ez
    @JohnBrown-ff6ez 4 місяці тому +1

    *BLESSINGS!*

  • @lwallace3842
    @lwallace3842 6 місяців тому +4

    Stay with the Lord. He will create miracles for you

  • @NyrusThomas
    @NyrusThomas 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @deannastafford5762
    @deannastafford5762 5 місяців тому +2

    I love this !!

  • @AndrewOldacre-o7u
    @AndrewOldacre-o7u 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @EdwardArmstrong-y3f
    @EdwardArmstrong-y3f 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @PatrickCharlesjpc
    @PatrickCharlesjpc 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @AngelaBaker-k1p
    @AngelaBaker-k1p 3 місяці тому

    Love this!!

  • @erikapayne9348
    @erikapayne9348 4 місяці тому +1

    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
    @empresslonnie1love391 3 місяці тому

    Im in Philadelphia i will love to visit the farm

  • @farnorthhomested844
    @farnorthhomested844 10 місяців тому +2

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

  • @LEGACYFOCUS
    @LEGACYFOCUS Рік тому +5

    My grandparents were poor farmers.....🎉

    • @BlUESKIES1178
      @BlUESKIES1178 4 місяці тому

      Anyone who owns land is never poor

  • @belindahopkins7875
    @belindahopkins7875 10 місяців тому +9

    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.

  • @jcliff8692
    @jcliff8692 4 місяці тому

    Awesome!!!!!!!

  • @rhondahopkins4366
    @rhondahopkins4366 4 місяці тому

    Blessings

  • @wannellalawson4001
    @wannellalawson4001 3 місяці тому

    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.

  • @PhilipJanifer-ck1vq
    @PhilipJanifer-ck1vq 3 місяці тому

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

  • @ALVINEL-e4v
    @ALVINEL-e4v 4 місяці тому

    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!!!

  • @joosfake
    @joosfake 3 місяці тому +1

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

  • @ohboypeach
    @ohboypeach 4 місяці тому

    He is a role model.

  • @XtremeEaglesFly
    @XtremeEaglesFly 4 місяці тому +1

    💪🏾😉💪🏾

  • @Anti-democratChick
    @Anti-democratChick 4 місяці тому

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

  • @nancycole-auguste6614
    @nancycole-auguste6614 4 місяці тому

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

  • @sherriefitzgerald7331
    @sherriefitzgerald7331 4 місяці тому

    ❤YALL WON THANK GOD AN STILL WINNING❤

  • @sanyundekou9332
    @sanyundekou9332 Рік тому +1

  • @MonicaSmith-i8k
    @MonicaSmith-i8k 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @sistahlight-2-danations
    @sistahlight-2-danations 4 місяці тому

    🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @queenmommie100
    @queenmommie100 4 місяці тому

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

  • @BetzaidaM
    @BetzaidaM 5 місяців тому

    Awesome

  • @queenmommie100
    @queenmommie100 4 місяці тому

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

  • @jesuslittlegirl2710
    @jesuslittlegirl2710 4 місяці тому

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

  • @RichardCabeza-lb7rx
    @RichardCabeza-lb7rx 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @BlUESKIES1178
    @BlUESKIES1178 4 місяці тому

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

  • @MA-yv8dw
    @MA-yv8dw 4 місяці тому

    ❤😊I love this fatm

  • @bryanb30
    @bryanb30 4 місяці тому

    5:28 👍🏿

  • @thewhatupdoegirl3584
    @thewhatupdoegirl3584 4 місяці тому

    🥳☝🏾

  • @TheGbass87
    @TheGbass87 4 місяці тому

    ✊🏽👍🏽✌🏽🖐🏽🙏🏽

  • @belindahopkins7875
    @belindahopkins7875 10 місяців тому

    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 😢😢😢😢

  • @MonicaSmith-i8k
    @MonicaSmith-i8k 4 місяці тому +1

    Where are you my brother 😂

  • @brandonyip840
    @brandonyip840 6 місяців тому

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

  • @Nicole-kx9vg
    @Nicole-kx9vg Рік тому

    🙂

  • @LoveMafae
    @LoveMafae 4 місяці тому

    dark man always have to get a light skin woman

  • @2cool460
    @2cool460 10 місяців тому

    @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
    @empresslonnie1love391 3 місяці тому

    Whats his Ig

  • @brettcinder258
    @brettcinder258 6 місяців тому

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

  • @bobfrstcty
    @bobfrstcty 4 місяці тому