By Cowgirl Candace. Images by Laney Martin. Georgia agriculture epitomizes more than an industry. It’s a living, breathing inheritance for me. Passed down through calloused hands, stitched into Sunday dinner debates, and measured by access, not acres. And yet for generations, the systems that guided agriculture policy and power have rarely reflected the full breadth […]

By Cowgirl Candace. Images by Vintrez Davis. Every now and then, Cowgirl Candace meets a fellow farmer whose grit reminds me why the land is my ancestral mission. That modern farmer is Sedrick Rowe. Our agricultural alignment didn’t begin on a campaign trail. It started years ago in South Georgia fields where a first-generation producer decided to […]

Her then-strawberry blonde bob saluted T-Boz from girl group TLC. When that black-on-black Ford Explorer pulled up in the grandparents’ dirt driveway, her neon windbreaker and doorknocker earrings sufficed as a rather loud hey y’all. Auntie Kathy arrived at Edward Hill Farm in Baldwin County, Georgia, in the 1990s to organize backyard parties. Those family […]