BLACK SOIL DON’T SPOIL: Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers Organization “Digs In” at New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church to Help Turn Fort Worth’s 76104 From a Food Desert Into a Food Forest.
BLACK SOIL DON’T SPOIL: Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers Organization “Digs In” at New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church to Help Turn Fort Worth’s 76104 From a Food Desert Into a Food Forest. Link: https://youtu.be/1zFbKLdHgkA?is=tIeEmE1GXvXctcgr By Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr. FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Black soil does not spoil. It holds history. It carries memory. It receives what has been buried, nourishes what has been planted and—when tended with faith, knowledge and determination—produces a harvest. In Fort Worth’s historic Morningside neighborhood, Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr., and farmer P. Wade Ross are digging into that truth. One leads from the pulpit. The other leads from the pasture. Together, the rancher and the reverend are working to turn one of Texas’ most medically vulnerable urban communities from a food desert into a flourishing food forest. Their unlikely partnership began with a prayer. In 2025, Pastor Tatum was invited to deliver the invocation at the 46...