In this interview, I talk with Erin McClellan, founding member and Board Chair of Fertile Ground Food Cooperative. In response to a lack of healthy food in an African American community in Raleigh, North Carolina, Fertile Ground members have been working for almost a decade to open a community-owned grocery store with social justice values and economic justice as its guiding principles. Fertile Ground, expected to open in 2025, is a personal and political project for me. I was born and raised in Raleigh, my grandparents are founding and current board members, and I have been a member of Fertile Ground since its founding. First as a high school student and later as an undergraduate student in Durham, I knocked on doors and attended community meetings. Later still, as a PhD student during the COVID-19 pandemic, I served as a regular volunteer for Fertile Ground’s food distribution program. Throughout its...
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May 01 2023
Fertile Ground Food Cooperative: Building a Black-Led Grocery Store in a Southern City
Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt-Holloway
Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt-Holloway
Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt-Holloway is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University. In fall 2023, he will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University.
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Gastronomica (2023) 23 (2): 80–83.
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Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt-Holloway; Fertile Ground Food Cooperative: Building a Black-Led Grocery Store in a Southern City. Gastronomica 1 May 2023; 23 (2): 80–83. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.2.80
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