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Holmes County Food Farmers

Holmes County Food Farmers

Filmmaker Susan Liles offers a glimpse into the lives of food crop farmers in the Mileston community of Holmes County, Mississippi. The West Holmes Community Development Organization (WHCDO) has formed a vegetable farming cooperative, offering fresh food to locals as well as business and ag training to the area youth.

Film by Susan Liles, Mississippi Arts Commission

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Resources

Links

Farming Revival in Mississippi, The Nation (2009)

Holmes County Vegetable Farmers, Living Mississippi (2010)

Print

Southern Foodways Alliance, Gravy, #38, 2010

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