Matthew Raiford

Matthew Raiford is a sixth-generation Gullah Geechee farmer-chef working the same Brunswick, Georgia farmland his family has held since 1874. As CheFarmer of Gilliard Farms and the author of Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer and Chef, he is one of the clearest living keepers of the Georgia coast kitchen.

His work joins land stewardship, seed-saving, and restaurant cookery into a single practice. The kitchen and the field are not separate operations; they are one inheritance, kept by one family, cooked at one table.