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Farmer Spotlight: Meet Christina Benton – A farmer whose purpose is to improve food access
The Carolina Farm Trust
Farmers, Fruits, Newsletter, Spring, Vegetables
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Christina Benton, Farmer, Food access, Janco Community Farms

Photo Courtesy of Christina Benton

Spring brings light and hope, a much-needed sentiment after last year’s gloomy anxiousness for our health and well-being of our loved ones, as well as the threatening worries of our country’s economic condition.

Many of us struggled as we saw, or even experienced first-hand, the already unjust structures of our current food system hitting economically distressed communities, low-income households, and Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color with the hardest blow. 

But, just as spring brings light, there are also luminaries who shed the light of kindness when it’s most needed. 

When you meet Christina Benton, you meet a farmer who not only grows  Read More

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