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Greensboro’s Juneteenth Farmer’s Market celebrates local growers

The Juneteenth Triad Farmers Market returns to Greensboro on Thursday, showcasing the region’s Black growers.

Among them is Nallah Muhammad, who tends a plot at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in the Warnersville community — Greensboro’s oldest African-American neighborhood. Her Peaceful Seeds Garden produces tomatoes, okra, collards, eggplants, and other fresh herbs and vegetables.

For her, the Juneteenth market at Hayes-Taylor YMCA is a chance to celebrate local farmers who are addressing food insecurity.

“It honors and acknowledges the work and sacrifice that the farmers in our network have put into really creating a beautiful system that provides fresh food for all,” she says.

The Juneteenth market is sponsored by Triad Black Faith Leaders & Black Farmers Network. In addition to fresh produce, the event will also feature live music, craft vendors and food trucks.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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