“There’s not one farm we have with rice ... the state’s most visible Black rice farmer, each pot he fills is a quiet triumph of culture. Rice made South Carolina planters rich.

“When I was a kid, my parents were growing no rice; all the rice had vanished,” says Hardeeville, South Carolina horticulturist Rollen ... they think because we’ve got farmers and government, we’re ...

Jubilee Justice’s rice program, called the Black Farmers Cohort, currently consists of 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Collectively, they ...

A rice that has been a staple of South Carolina's low country for hundreds of years defies the stereotype that rice can't be a ticket to a long life and a healthier diet. NBC's Cynthia McFadden ...

Learn about the dark history of rice cultivation in South Carolina. In 1685, John Thurber, a pirate, inadvertently introduced rice to America. After a storm damaged his ship, he stopped in ...

to new growth sprouting from Carolina Gold rice stems. The farmer had harvested the field more than a month earlier, but he did not uproot the plants. So after re-flooding and fertilizing ...