{"id":35287,"date":"2020-02-27T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civileats.com\/?p=35287"},"modified":"2020-03-05T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:37:21","slug":"jennifer-taylor-educates-and-advocates-for-underserved-small-farmers-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2020\/02\/27\/jennifer-taylor-educates-and-advocates-for-underserved-small-farmers-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Taylor Educates and Advocates for Underserved Small Farms in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Taylor\u2019s love of farming began when she was a child, during the summers she spent on her grandmother\u2019s farm in Glenwood, Georgia.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s grandmother, Lola Hampton, was a sharecropper who, in the 1940s, had the opportunity to buy the 32 acres she had farmed. In addition to maintaining orchards of peaches, apples, and pears, Hampton raised chickens, goats, and dairy cows\u2014and had a mule, of course. After Hampton could no longer work the farm, the land lay fallow until Taylor and her husband Ron Gilmore took over in 2010 and developed Lola\u2019s Organic Farm.<\/p>\n

Today, the operation is much more than an ordinary farm; it\u2019s become a mecca for small organic farmers, hosting workshops and farm tours throughout the year. In her work as a farmer, educator, and advocate, Taylor promotes best organic practices, following the principles of sustainability laid out by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement<\/a> (IFOAM) and encouraging healthy microbial soil through cover crops, crop rotation, and compost.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe if a farmer chooses to grow good food, they should build healthy soil\u2014that\u2019s the key,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cBuilding a healthy [farm] environment is a good influence on neighbors. It enhances neighboring land through clean air, biodiversity, and good food.\u201d In addition, she said, healthy soil improves \u201cthe whole community, benefiting bees and other pollinators as well as the farmers and farmworkers. It\u2019s not a vacuum.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to managing the farm with Gilmore, Taylor works during the week as an associate professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee. There, she\u00a0 coordinates Florida\u2019s Statewide Small Farm Program, which focuses on providing education, training, and technical assistance for small farms. Rather than teaching formal classes on the FAMU campus, however, Taylor travels around Florida visiting sharing knowledge and encouraging organic methods. She returns home, three and a half hours from Tallahassee, to help her husband run the farm on weekends.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMost [farm outreach] programs focus on large-scale agribusiness, leaving 80 percent of farmers [globally] underserved,\u201d she said. In the U.S. and Florida, 90 percent of farms are small scale (although many don’t produce crops commercially<\/a>). \u201cTraditionally, many small-scale farmers\u2014minorities, Indigenous communities, and women\u2014are resource-poor, and outreach and extension programs often don\u2019t reach [them],\u201d Taylor said. These are precisely the folks Taylor focuses on through her efforts.<\/p>\n

Her program visits farmers who invite them, she explained. \u201cThey discuss their needs, and we work together to map out a plan to enable sustainable, regenerative farming through education and available resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor also conducts group \u201ccapacity-building sessions.\u201d These advertised group sessions offer information on sustainable agriculture and allow the community to see where their food comes from. During these farm-facilitated tours, the public can view the environmental benefits of healthy farming practices. \u201cFarmers are continually learning, and we need to look at the big picture,\u201d she said of these sessions.<\/p>\n

Good Work Recognized<\/h4>\n

Her approach to helping farmers build their soil and improve their environments has earned Taylor a host of accolades, including the 2019 Organic Pioneer for Farming award<\/a> from the Rodale Institute<\/a> and a seat on the Institute\u2019s board. Last month, Florida\u2019s Commissioner of Agriculture named her Florida\u2019s Woman of the Year in Agriculture <\/a>\u201cfor her many contributions and outstanding leadership within our state\u2019s agriculture community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor also served on the National Organic Standards Board<\/a> (NOSB), and in 2014, then Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed her to serve on the Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers<\/a> (ACBFR).<\/p>\n

\u201cJennifer impressed me because of her dedication to mentoring others who want to be organic,\u201d said Diana Martin, director of communications for the Rodale Institute. \u201cShe spends her time off the farm advocating for small organic farmers, and she lobbies for those who can\u2019t leave their cows in Wisconsin to come to Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Martin said Taylor exemplifies the type of people Rodale tends to select for the Organic Pioneer Award, which was established to honor those who have faced the wrath of industrial agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly on, organic farmers faced adversity if they decided to avoid chemicals,\u201d Martin said. \u201cMany researchers had funding cut, so there was not enough research for solutions, and some [advocates] were even kicked out of their churches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following in Her Grandmother\u2019s Footsteps<\/h4>\n

\u201cMy family have always been farmers,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cEven as a child, I liked connecting to the soil, watching a plant grow. I have great memories of the farm, where we spent holidays, weekends, and a few weeks in the summer.\u201d Gilmore had farmers in his family, too, giving them both close ties to the soil.<\/p>\n

\u201cLola\u2019s cows roamed through the woods so you couldn\u2019t see them, but they came when she called them,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cHer chickens ran through the peach orchard, and that helped keep the insects down and provided manure.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was never a lack of food, Taylor remembered, noting that Hampton sold much of her bounty to neighbors and sent boxes loaded with fresh produce and canned goods to her family.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe also made pies, preserves, and canned vegetables, even meat\u2014what we call \u2018value-added\u2019 today\u2014so there was always food,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cShe made soap and even made moonshine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Taylor handles the business end of the farm, while Gilmore takes care of the day-to-day operations. They seldom use heavy equipment, but if they must use a big machine, they hire a neighbor.<\/p>\n

The couple farm three of their 32 acres, growing strawberries, blackberries, muscadine grapes, persimmons, apples, and pomegranates, plus several varieties of kale, sweet potatoes, Asian eggplants, ginger, and turmeric. They sell their produce through a local co-op in Glenwood, as well as a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. The portion of their land they are not farming remains woodlands.<\/p>\n

Cover Crops and High Tunnels<\/h4>\n

Cover crops have become an integral part of Lola\u2019s Organic Farm, providing a healthy biomass to the sandy, loamy Georgia soil. In 2013, Taylor and Gilmore received a $9,500 producer grant<\/a> from Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SSARE)<\/a> to study cover crops\u2019 role in building healthy soil and suppressing weeds on their farm.<\/p>\n

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Initially, the farm was plagued by Bermuda grass choking out their cash crops. The rampant turf seemed impervious to extreme weather, and it spread rapidly by above-and-below-ground runners, making it a highly obnoxious weed. Other local farmers used Roundup, burned off the grass, or used tilled the ground to get rid of the grass. But those methods leave dry, barren soil, something Gilmore didn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

During the two-year grant-funded experiment, Taylor and Gilmore tested two plots, growing strictly cover crops such as iron clay cowpeas, buckwheat, and millet on one, and mechanical strategies such as bottom plowing, tilling, and weeding on the other. Their evaluation of the two weed-suppression methods found that the mechanical strategies alone left soil dry and reduced crop yield.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Taylor says: \u201cthe cover crop strategy built healthy soil while suppressing weeds and increasing cash crop yields.\u201d She is now such a fan that no cash crop on Lola\u2019s Organic Farm gets planted without a cover crop incorporated into the soil first.<\/p>\n

The success of cover crops in the fields led Taylor and Gilmore to try cover crops in two high tunnels<\/a> they acquired through\u00a0a USDA program<\/a> offering financial assistance to farmers to extend the growing season.<\/p>\n

\u201cTunnels allow a longer growing season, and we can work them during bad weather,\u201d said Taylor.<\/p>\n

In one tunnel, Gilmore planted hairy vetch and barley to fix nitrogen, and in the second, iron clay peas to build soil organic matter and resist root-knot nematode<\/a>. The second season, he and Taylor planted yellow mustard to build organic matter and control soil-borne pathogens\u2014a practice called biofumigation<\/a>. Taylor said in addition to fixing nitrogen, barley also absorbs heavy metals such as copper, cadmium, and zinc, as well as salt, which can accumulate to toxic levels in high tunnels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve done a great thing by taking cover crops into high tunnels for row crops,\u201d said Candace Pollock Moore, Southern SARE program coordinator at the University of Georgia at Griffin. \u201cSSARE grants allow farmers to see how well an idea worked on the farm … There’s as much value in learning what didn’t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advocating on Capitol Hill<\/h4>\n

In addition to her hands-on work with small, organic farms, Taylor also finds time for trips to Washington to advocate for her industry. Last year, representing the Organic Farmer\u2019s Association (OFA), she went to the Hill with Rodale\u2019s Diana Martin to secure increased funding in the farm bill for organic research.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were successful in raising research funding from $20 to $50 million,\u201d said Martin. \u201cWe also protected the Organic Certification Cost Sharing Program,<\/a> which reimburses up to 75 percent of\u00a0 certifications costs, which are often a barrier to small, beginning organic farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the conventional farm lobby is large and well-funded, small organic farmers rarely have to opportunity to take time off to lobby lawmakers. Taylor\u2019s in-person visits to congressmembers and government agencies allow them to have contact with a genuine farmer, not slick professionals. This March, she and Martin will travel to Washington again to visit NGOs and legislators.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Taylor plans to continue the work she and Gilmore have made Lola’s famous for: pioneering organic methods, and training and advocating for underserved farm communities across Florida and Georgia.<\/p>\n

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