Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343).

Foreword / by Natalie Baszile -- Introduction / by Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg -- Those winter Sundays / by Robert Hayden -- Everyone beneath their own vine and fig tree : a remembering in seven parts / by Michael Twitty -- Handed the rain / by Ed Roberson -- Writing Queen Sugar / by Natalie Baszile -- Excerpt from Black and White: the way I see it / by Richard Williams Williams -- Resilience and reinvention / with Stanley Hughes and Linda Leach -- Little farm, big dreams / with Kamal Bell -- Black to the land / by Leah Penniman -- Cutting greens / by Lucille Clifton -- The last plantation : the USDA's racist operation system / by Pete Daniel -- Father and daughter / with Harper and Ashley Armstrong -- To the fig tree on 9th and Christian / by Ross Gay -- On top of Moon Mountain / with Brenae Royal -- Money talk with Clif Sutton and Dexter Faison -- Barking / by Lenard D. Moore -- Dispossessed : their family bought land one generation after slavery. The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave it / by Lizzie Presser -- Louisiana daughters : a conversation with Lalita Tademy and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton -- Queen Sugar, Chapter 10 / by Natalie Baszile -- Frame / by Robin Coste Lewis -- America at the crossroads : a history of enslavement and land /by Clyde Ford -- Field Day at the Hill Place / with Odis Hill -- Equal ground / with Willie Earl Nelson Sr. and sons -- Fearless / by Tim Seibles -- Four days in Alaskan Farm School / with Melony Edwards -- No better life / with the Blueforts -- Ancestral vibrations guide our connection to the land / by Jim Embry -- Remember / by Jim Embry -- Family ties / with Esmeralda and Antonio Sandoval -- How to make rain / by Kevin Young -- Miss Rose's dirty rice / by Natalie Baszile -- A new country / with Dorcas Young -- Raised and rooted / with Deric Harper -- Making space / with Moretta Browne -- Call me by my name / by Harryette Mullen -- Wheel of fortune / with Martha Calderon -- Exceeding the "yes" / with Marvin Frink -- Swarm / by Tonya Foster -- A brief history of tobacco / by Natalie Baszile -- After tobacco / with the Wrights -- Yellowjackets / by Yusef Komunyakaa -- Home games / with Kellye Walker and Werten Bellamy -- Butter / by Elizabeth Alexander -- A love letter to future generations / by Naima Penniman -- Inside Queen Sugar: Jason Wilborn reflects of his years in the Queen Sugar Writer's Room / by Natalie Baszile -- The Boudin Trail / by Natalie Baszile -- Black Harvest Fund -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Credits -- Contributors -- Photographs.