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As corporate food supply chains face recurring safety outbreaks, Black families are turning to local Black agricultural producers for secure food access. Investing in Black growers builds economic self-reliance and safeguards community health against systemic food system failures.

This summer, it has felt like the flow of Black folks and families arriving at Deep Roots CPS Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, has never let up, said Cherie Jzar, the farm’s managing director. They’re in search of something that has become harder to find in the grocery aisle: certainty.

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