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Out of the Box
At Ten Mothers Farm in Cedar Grove, Gordon Jenkins and Vera Fabian produce 50 to 60 varieties of vegetables, with the help of four full-time employees.
All but 5 percent of its output is sold to 300 families living within 30 minutes of Ten Mothers through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), or produce subscription, program.
Small-scale, intensive organic farming is happening across North Carolina. Cedar Grove alone is home to at least four other CSAs of similar scale.
But what sets Ten Mothers apart is how the two-acre farm has perfected the model to a degree that local food experts say they rarely encounter.
Big Name in Small-scale Farming
Ten Mothers in Cedar Grove sets the “gold standard” for produce subscription programs.
“We’re doing better financially than we ever thought possible,” Fabian said.
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Just the Facts
About two months ago, a Greensboro-based advocacy group got a call from two Durham residents who had seen unfamiliar vehicles looping around their Northgate Park neighborhood. They saw law enforcement officers with their faces covered, and they thought they knew what was happening: an ICE raid.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put three men in handcuffs and drove them away, the pair said. They sent in video of someone wearing a Customs and Border Protection badge.
Alisa Cullison and Emily Ingebretsen had called a hotline run by Siembra NC, a nonprofit organization that works to support Latino residents across the state. The hotline service, which launched in 2018, has served as a resource to help immigrants and other community members sort fact from fiction when it comes to raids and deportations.
How Siembra NC Sorts Fact From Fiction
The grassroots organization that advocates for immigrant workers’ rights saw a flood of calls about rumored enforcement actions after President Donald Trump took office again.
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