The Gilliard Farm will be holding the Gilliard Farm Benefit: Farm-to-Table Dinner & A Movie on November, 16, 2013 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm EST. The Raifords will hold a screening of the film “Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields” by Academy Award nominee Dulanie Ellis (The Legacy of Rosa Parks).
For more information on the film surrounding the Raiford family and other military veterans who have turned to farming as a lifestyle to deal with PTSD and re-acclamation into civilian life, go to http://www.groundoperations.net/.
Little Known Black History Fact: Matthew and Althea Raiford was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
