The next meeting of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation will take place at Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History on historic Isle of Hope in Savannah, Ga.
Friday, March 11, 2022
1:00 pm–5:30 pm
Wormsloe Historic Site
7601 Skidaway Road
Savannah, GA 31406
The meeting will take place both in person and via Zoom. See our Facebook page for more information.
The meeting will include community education panels featuring local farmers, growers, and academics including Rollen Chalmers, Campbell Coxe, Greg Johnsman, and others. Discussions will cover prospects in the Lowcountry for beginning farmers, weed management, upland rice vs. pond, obstacles to small-scale heirloom grain cultivation, and the process of milling, packaging, and distributing.
The afternoon will feature two speakers, Dr. Edda Fields-Black and Dr. Jessica Harris.
Dr. Fields-Black is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and specializes in the trans-national of West African rice farmers, peasant farmers in pre-Colonial Upper Guinea Coast, and enslaved laborers on rice plantations in the South Carolina and Georgia. For her talk, she will be discussing South Carolina rice plantations and Harriet Tubman.
Dr. Harris, professor emerita at Queens College, CUNY, is a culinary historian well known for her work on food and the African diaspora, which she will discuss in her talk. She has written 15 books, won two James Beard Foundation Awards, and recently appeared on Netflix’s High on the Hog, an adaptation of her book of the same name.