MDCFWOI youth growers and mentors participated in the local Producers Meeting plus processing training and tour of Alcorn State University’s vegetable processing facility (April 7, 2016). They are pictured standing underneath the Marks Mule Train commemorative mural painted by our friend and local painter, musician, and art teacher Rosalind Wilcox. At the Delta Regional Mule Train Market &[…]
Our friends, Sam and Bernestine McCray, at the Mississippi Delta Council warehouse fundraiser Tuesday evening receiving emergency relief of $2600 collected from the community. The McCray family home in Marks, MS was completely destroyed in the pre-Christmas tornados. Sam is our lead farm and food hub organizer, creative program developer, inclusive partnership-builder, and passionate advocate for farmworkers and their[…]
The home of one of our community’s key leaders at Mississippi Delta Council for Farmworker Opportunities, Inc. was completely destroyed by the tornado that touched down near Marks just days before Christmas. Sam McCray is known by many in the Delta as the retired field office staffer for Congressman Bennie Thompson working mostly in Coahoma,[…]