Youth working with Mississippi Delta Council for Farm Worker Opportunities, Inc. visited mentoring farmers running small, limited resource farms. The youth are involved in a program to learn local farming techniques and promotion, in partnership with Coahoma Agriculture High School (Clarksdale – Coahoma County), along with Quitman County Vocational School Agro-Science Department, (Marks – Quitman County),[…]
The past year has been an active one for our organization. This year, we hope to do more! MDCFWOI has its sights on plans that will lead toward greater economic opportunity and resiliency among people in the Mississippi Delta. Programs: In 2016, MDCFWOI plans to add a mobile market to the farmers market and an on-site cold[…]
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 &[…]