In-between his yells of  “swweeet watermelon, get your swweeet watermelon,” he told me the story of how the land he now cultivates was passed down to him, dating all the way back to his family’s sharecropping beginnings.

 

“At a very early age I learned the relationship between the sun, earth, water and seed. If it wasn’t for Pigford v. Glickman I wouldn’t be able to continue to pass that knowledge or the land to my family.”

 

- black ingenuity.