How one Black West Virginia urban farmer plans to use land acquisition, tea blends and alliances to nurture growth
Use alliances to build her business into a brand that can generate extra income beyond what a single urban lot can grow.
By Jeffrey McKinney,
Black By God
Nov 2, 2026
Excerpt:
Davis said she plans to use a new $10,000 city grant from Charleston and additional funding to expand her farm’s infrastructure and buy lots. She added it has raised over $1,200 from a Go Fund Me account to help expand. Davis hopes to have all funding in place by late this year.
Davis is reportedly among a handful of Black urban farmers in West Virginia. All told, the number of Black-owned farmers in West Virginia that fallen from 504 a century ago to just 31 today, per this report by Black By God.
Still, urban farmers have emerged with the help of groups like the Black Gardners & Growers of West Virgina Davis is involved with. It supposedly has over 150 members who cultivate land and support food systems. Davis is a contributing writer for BBG.
Her agenda calls for expanding her business overall to boost revenue. “We’re positioning ourselves so that the things we’re doing can run consistently and sustainably.”
To help get there, Davis told BBG what some of her other strategies include:
Leverage products that come directly from what’s grown at the Meadow. Among those: microgreens and Sunshine Tea, a value-added product Davis is developing, along with other tea blends and seasonings. She says what is holding Sunshine Tea up from retail distribution is gaining permits from state regulators. Davis added, “I am taking the Food Manager’s course, looking for a health department approved kitchen where I can produce it, and making sure I have the proper equipment, which helps keep costs and overhead down so the price stays accessible to the market I want to reach.”
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/how-one-black-west-virginia-urban-farmer-plans-to-use-land-acquisition-tea-blends-and-alliances-to-nurture-growth/
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