Cash Crop | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 9 Episode 906 | 14sVideo has Closed Captions
A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.
In Southern Virginia, Black farmers like Cecil Shell balance their interests in honoring their tradition of tobacco farming against the onset of solar energy farms exploding across the region. Through Cecil, the film explores one rural county’s shifting economic interests and his own efforts to steward the community, including Black landowners, through changing times.
Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.
Cash Crop | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 9 Episode 906 | 14sVideo has Closed Captions
In Southern Virginia, Black farmers like Cecil Shell balance their interests in honoring their tradition of tobacco farming against the onset of solar energy farms exploding across the region. Through Cecil, the film explores one rural county’s shifting economic interests and his own efforts to steward the community, including Black landowners, through changing times.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Man] If you don't enjoy farming, it's a miserable life because you're not gonna want to get up, and you're not gonna want to get out there in the dirt.
You're gonna have a hard time running me off.
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Video has Closed Captions
Cecil Taylor shares his family history of tobacco farming. (1m 15s)
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.