Field Trip to Warren County! 🌿✊🏽
- HPDP FFORC
- Jun 25
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 26
FFORC | June 2025
Members of our FFORC and CHI teams spent the day in Warrenton, NC, guided by Rev. Kearney, learning about the deep roots of environmental justice and local efforts to reclaim and revitalize land.
📍 Coley Springs Church — established in 1867 and central to organizing the historic 1982 PCB protests.
image 1. FFORC & CHI staff inside Coley Springs Church, which was established in 1867. Coley Springs congregation and community were critical to organizing the PCB protests. Protesters would march down this road to oppose the toxic waste landfill.
image 2. Outside of Coley Springs Church
🚜 Brown Family Farm & Produce — run by Patrick Chandler Brown (“PCB”)
image 3. Visited the Brown Family Farm and Produce, run by Patrick Chandler Brown, the son of Rev. Arthur Brown who took place in the original PCB protests in Sept 15, 1982. Rev. Brown wanted memorialize his participation in the environmental justice movement and named his son "PCB." Rev. Brown's son, Patrick, has since purchased a plantation house and land where his forefathers were slaves and he has converted that into active farming land. He is working to restore the house and farms 500 acres of land - some of the acreage is in Warrenton and some is at the plantation in Halifax County.
📖 PCB Protest Historical Marker — standing where the marches took place.
image 4. Went to the PCB protest historical marker on HWY 410 South.
🌱 The Everlasting Garden at Oak Chapel — a thriving community garden growing food & connection.
images 5-6: The group stopped at the Oak Chapel in Warrenton to visit their community Garden, The Everlasting Garden.
Our team made several other stops not pictured here. Overall, it was a full day learning about Warren County's environmental justice history and seeing local efforts to revitalize agricultural spaces and businesses! So much history. So much hope. A powerful day in Warren County.
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