For Walter Moore, “the fountain of youth” is not a body of water but the ground beneath his feet.

This eclectic collection of essays, articles, interviews, memoir excerpts, poems, quotes, photographs of black farmers includes Baszile’s own essay about her ten-year struggle to write her novel, Queen Sugar.  Together these pieces reveal the mostly hidden world of black Americans in agriculture. “I tried to gather stories from a range of people …who encourage us to remember our roots and reclaim our heritage,” says Bazile.