New Communities
New Communities, Inc. | |
| Formation | 1969 |
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| Founder | Slater King and local civil rights activists |
| Dissolved | 1985 |
| Type | Community land trust and farm collective |
| Location |
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Region served | Southwest Georgia |
| Products | Pre-1985: Row crops (corn, peanuts, soybeans); Muscadine grapes; livestock Post-2011: Pecans, Watermelons |
| Methods | Collective farming and long-term land leasing |
| Fields | Community land trusts; agriculture; civil rights |
| Website | https://newcommunitiescp.com |
New Communities is a 5,700-acre (23 km2) land trust and farm collective owned and operated by approximately a dozen black farmers from 1969 to 1985. Once one of the largest-acreage African American-owned properties in the United States, it was situated in Southwest Georgia. New Communities is widely recognized as the original model for community land trusts in the US.