THE NORTH CAROLINA RICE FESTIVAL

The NCRFI, in partnership with the Brunswick Arts Council, produced these educational and historical videos. The videos highlight the significant role that rice production played in the development of southeastern North Carolina.

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"Gullah Geechee History and Rice Growing in Brunswick County"

Journey deep into the North Carolina low country, where rice was gold, landscapes were reconfigured, and waterways were harnessed to bring this prized and profitable crop to market, due largely to the horticultural knowledge and agricultural skills of the enslaved Africans who were brought to this region by force to sow, tend, and harvest a bounty, though indigenous to their homelands, that they would themselves would never reap.​

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"Gullah Geechee Foodways in Southeastern North Carolina"

Join award-winning Wilmington chef and Festival Culinarian Keith Rhodes for field and kitchen demonstrations of mouth-watering Gullah Geechee cuisine as it was prepared by the enslaved peoples who brought rice cultivation to this area and as modern chefs prepare and present it, fusion-style, for contemporary palates.