Flowers are pretty

A lot of people have no idea what these reforested areas look like and assume they’re just as lush and diverse as when they were destroyed. There is NO way that this:

Is being adequately replaced with this, which will also be re-cut long before any other species can find niches:

Photography by Xuebing Du

Oh dear... euphorbia... they're so many things. They're very many things. Extremely diverse. Many many flavors.

Euphorbia are actually entirely unrelated to cacti. Cacti are North and South America natives, Euphorbia are Africa natives. Both often have spines but cacti will have glochids (little stabby detachable hairs around the spines) and euphorbia do not.

This is a Euphorbia:

(Euphorbia millii aka Crown of Thorns)

This is a Euphorbia:

(Euphorbia breviarticulata)

This is a Euphorbia:

(Euphorbia francoisii)

This is a Euphorbia:

(Euphorbia pulcherrima aka poinsettia)

This is a Euphorbia:

(Euphorbia tirucauli aka pencil cactus)

This is a Euphorbia:

(Euphorbia obesa)

And this is a Euphorbia:

articles/lists

“Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest” by Amethyst Ganaway

“Restaurants Must Use This Moment to Change, Too” by Amethyst Ganaway

“Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement” by Nancy Schute

“How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn” by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

“There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared?” by Summer Sewell

“The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms” by Vann R. Newkirk II

“Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.” by Lizzie Presser

@/NFUDC (National Farmers Union): How to fight racism in agriculture (twitter thread dated June 2, 2020)

Want to See Food and Land Justice for Black Americans? Support These Groups.

21 Individuals and Organizations Building Stronger Black Communities and Food Systems

The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens

LISTS OF BLACK-OWNED FOOD BUSINESSES

books (**full text available for free)

**Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

**Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability ed. Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

**Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese

**Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Peter Daniel

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Black Rice by Judith A. Carney

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar

Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution by Frederick Douglass Opie

Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman

podcasts / television

Sporkful – When White People Say Plantation & When Black Chefs Created Plantation Food

The Kitchen Sisters / Hidden Kitchens – Hercules and Hemings: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision – Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere: A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen

1619 – Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1 & Part 2

Chef’s Table – 6x01: Mashama Bailey (on Netflix)

further reading lists

A Reading List For Learning About Anti-Black Racism and Food

A Black History Month Reading List Centered Around Food and Farming

47 Food Studies Books, Not Just for Black History Month

Guess who’s here?! It’s the skunky bois! (Submitted by @leviintheskywithdiamonds)

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