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What Wakes Me Up 19 Chavis and Carter

Tue, May 26, 2026

Two guests in this episode of What Wakes Me Up

Duron Chavis founded Happily Natural Day and the Central Virginia Agrarian Commons. He is a land steward focused on sustainable and appropriate development, land rights education, and sharing both the harvest and the work out into producing that harvest.

Michael Carter Jr. is also a leader in African American Agriculture, history and culture, He is here to tell us about his book Africulture: How the principles, practices, plants and people of African Descent have shaped American agriculture.

Cliometrics, which I mention having looked up in the dictionary, is a the systematic application of economic theory, statistical methods (econometrics), and mathematical models to the study of history. It’s a superpower Michael mentioned, but I see it’s a study the both can claim.

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