Saturday, April 24, 2021

Live-At-Home Farm movement and Black Lives Matter

 

How Black Farmers Reclaimed Economic Power with Cooperatives: Webinar

so that if I accidentally wear a Black Lives Matter t-shift to the local-yodel Auto Shop suddenly they don't have any appointments open for me anymore....we have thousands of rounds of ammunition in this house because we never know what's going to happen...

"The Live-At-Home program has for its main purpose the encouraging of all of us engaged in farming to grow for ourselves and to supply ourselves with all the food and feed-stuffs and livestock products necessary for family and farm consumption the year round. It would also encourage us to grow enough surplus to supply the small towns and the cities which are our logical markets;"
very cool.
Between 1920 and 1930, the focus shifted from food production and revitalization to an emphasis on efficiency and production which would eventually evolve into the “Live-At-Home” program, a major focus of the extension work until after WWII.
  As a result, the extension staff and rural women’s club membership were temporarily expanded while the demonstration program was collapsed into a single focus -to support the war effort through food production. In order to increase food production, the “Live-at-Home” program became the home demonstration agents’ chief means of assisting the Food Administration with the objective to teach farm families self-s ufficiency. These programs sought to increase food production for the war effort, gave home demonstration agents visibility and heightened public awareness of their work and programs, while providing an opportunity to prove to elected officials why home demonstration work mattered and that this work had economic value
Ah so they teach "Home Canning" of food.
Home demonstration clubs’ Committees on Preparedness held vital roles in their counties and communities during the war as they made Live-at-Home inventories in their communities and then went out into neighborhood homes to encourage farm families to do a better job of food production.

 So it was mainly so Cotton Farmers in the South could also have milk, eggs and fruit access on their own farms.
 



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