#186: From Lineage to Land: Umi’s Journey of Ancestral Farming

Edible Activist Podcast by Melissa L. Jones

Nov 12, 202500:38:10Arts

Returning-generation farmer and community herbalist Bianca “Umi” Anthony shares how she’s reclaiming seven acres of her family’s 1950s land in rural Bertie County, NC—reviving legacy, building Seed of Life Farm, and rais...

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