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2025
Black By God: Farmer Grows Workforce Training Program In Former Coal Camp
West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Reviving Black Coal Camps And Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning
2024
Black By God: Faith group partnering with local farmers on land return initiative
2023
On Appodlachia-- Bringing Black Agriculture to Appalachia - Listen Here
2022
Jason Tartt on W. Kamau Bell show United Shades of America
McDowell County Man Featured on CNN
New Brand Highlights Foods and Farms of Appalachia
Black Farmers are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country in Yes Magazine
2021
Black Farmers Struggle for Finance and Support in West Virginia
EDGE is also so grateful for the support of the editors at the Gazette-Mail in their March 16 edition
podcast
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Other media
EDGE partnered with farm lender Go Steward for a bridge loan for Mountain Farm Community Grocery:
https://gosteward.com/projects/economic-development-greater-east/rural-community-grocer-renovations
Mountain Farm Community Grocery Featured on WVNS, 2021:
https://www.wvnstv.com/top-stories/volunteer-organization-trying-to-create-community-grocery-in-mcdowell-county/
Mountain Farm Community Grocery Featured in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 2021:
https://www.bdtonline.com/news/non-profit-seeks-to-bring-new-grocery-to-longtime-food-desert-in-kimball/article_42770644-8aac-11eb-ac39-17c11afad5ec.html
About EDGE co-founder and advisor, Crystal Cook Marshall:
https://barnard.edu/magazine/summer-2018/down-earth
American Youth Agripreneur Association:
https://www.facebook.com/ayaacareerbuilding/
McDowell County Farms Agricultural Cooperative
