“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 ...

Carolina Gold Rice is considered ... with ties to South Carolina, bringing them into use. The idea, said Lamie, who also heads a program for small and emerging farmers, is to revive historic ...

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 ...

HARDEEVILLE — Our coach bus took a sharp right turn off a two-lane road near the South Carolina ... people to farm the land at the conclusion of the Civil War, the rice industry fell into ...

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 ...

“There’s not one farm we have with rice ... to sow the seeds to begin growing rice. (Lynsey Weatherspoon / For The Washington Post) Rice made South Carolina planters rich.

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 ...