Booker T. Whatley (1915 to 2005) was an agriculture professor at Tuskegee University and a pioneer of sustainable, small-scale farming in the period after World War II. His farm planning model aimed to make diversified small farms profitable for their owners, and he explicitly framed the work as a way to help build an agrarian black middle class.
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Defining ContributionDeveloped the Whatley regenerative small-farm plan combining pick-your-own harvesting with a Clientele Membership Club, a model for making diversified small farms profitable that he framed as a path to building an agrarian black middle class. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Booker T. Whatley (Wikipedia)
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Booker T. Whatley (November 5, 1915, in Calhoun County, Alabama - September 3, 2005, in Montgomery, Alabama) was an agriculture professor at Tuskegee University, Alabama, and a pioneer of sustainable agriculture in the post-World War II era.
Education section, first sentence
Raised on a family farm in Anniston, Alabama as the oldest of his parents' 12 children, Booker T. Whatley received his B.S. degree in agriculture from Alabama A & M University.
Regenerative farming system section, first sentence
Dr. Whatley is best known for his regenerative farming system, in combination with the direct marketing concept of pick-your-own (PYO), a customer harvesting operation managed by farmers and growers.
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