Hey everyone, Mitchell Hora here.

And I'm Zach Johnson, and this is, of course, the fieldwork podcast, which is a podcast by farmers, for farmers.

Special thanks to the Walton Family Foundation for their support this season.

Zach, we're taking it even further south away from Canada today.

We're leaving the Midwest and we're traveling to southern Virginia.

That's where John and Kara Boyd farm and where their families have farmed for generations.

Yeah, and they are plugged into networks that our podcast hasn't really been able to tap into before.

John is actually the president of the National Black Farmers Association, and Kara runs the

American Indian Farmers Association.

African American and Native farmers have faced a lot of discrimination from the USDA and

from other government agencies.

Their ranks have dwindled over the years, and today 98% of private farmland is owned by

white farmers.

We talked with the Boyds about a whole bunch of stuff, including what they're doing on their own percent of private farmland is owned by white farmers.

We talked with the Boyds about a whole bunch of stuff, including what they're doing on their own farm to try to adopt regenerative principles.

Joining us now on Fieldwork podcast is Kara Boyd.

She is the co-founder and president of the Association of American Indian Farmers.

Kara, can you give us a story of how you became a farmer and then from there how you became an activist?

Well, I guess I was born a farmer. I'm a member of the Lumbie tribe of North Carolina. And, you know,

being an indigenous person here in North America, you know, I think we've always been growing and

producing our food. I was in the fields oftentimes playing as a child as my grandparents, you know,

planted and harvested produce. Agriculture and farming was just, you know, harvested, planted and harvested produce. Agriculture and

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