Roy Mosley, a farmer finding new routes to some old and “natural” paths, has added rice to his production of heirloom grain and vegetable varieties, natural-pasture pork and a few fresh chickens in the Willow Hill area.

Now, don’t imagine that he has flooded fields as rice paddies up along U.S. Highway 80 on the way from Statesboro to Portal. What Mosley has been experimenting with and learning to grow in test plots for the past three years and has expanded in 2025 to a single small field is a black-husked “sticky” rice, grown in somewhat drier conditions. Now he expects to harvest enough to sell for the first time.

He is growing it as a member of the Jubilee Justice farming co-op, which is based in Louisiana and promotes participation in sustainable farming practices by Black farmers, e

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