Virginia farmer Elisha Barnes is growing corn as part of a barter. A food bank leased 20 acres of land in Southampton County, and produce from half that land goes to the food bank. Barnes keeps the other half.
with the farm-to-table movement. “The whole point of the project was to hopefully help out a minority farmer in our local community, but also connect people with fresh produce grown by local citizens,” Tan said.
Marshall Rabil, director of marketing at the Hubbard Peanut Co. in Southampton County, had been encouraging Tan to learn more about local agriculture. He introduced Barnes.Barnes, Tan learned, had stories to tell — oh, did he have stories. And he knew how to tell them.Barnes, the son of a sharecropper, first got on a tractor when he was 6. Day after day, he’d hop off the school bus, change clothes, and head to the fields.to attend auto and diesel mechanic school in Nashville.
When he sought a loan, he said the bank officer told him they didn’t finance farms. But two friends — both White — had recently secured loans to buy farmland from the same place. Barnes confronted the loan officer, and that day he had the money to beginFor 15 years, Barnes put in a full day at the paper mill and then went home and worked the fields, sometimes for four or five hours a night. In 2004, he had a knee replacement.
Barnes’s equipment is nearly as old as he is. Some, like the seed spreader used in May, he designed and fabricated himself.He has no interest in sitting back and letting GPS guide a modern tractor. “My dad said anybody can hold a steering wheel, but you need to learn how to drive,” he said, “seeing what’s ahead of you, knowing the changes in the topography and when to slow down and speed up.”
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