How do we discern the most effective and aligned social justice strategies? Is it more important to engage in civil disobedience or to work on legislation? Is it more effective to organize with our neighbors or to provide a healing…
Hurricane Helene Relief Resources for Farmers
For our FARM-ily impacted by the most recent climate disaster, Hurricane Helene, you are not alone! Please look into the following disaster assistance programs to support restoration of your farm and community work. Persimmon Collective Mini-Grants Southern Exposure Running Resources…
August ’23 Love Notes
One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone. bell hooks Blessings Dreamers, As we begin to hear the whispers of fall approaching in the cooler…
Leah’s Sabbatical
Greetings friends, I will be on Sabbatical from June through December 2023. I am so grateful for your support of this period of refresh and reset, which is profoundly necessary after two decades of steadfast labor and unwavering dedication to…
Black Earth Wisdom
BLACK EARTH WISDOM By Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black Publisher: HarperCollins Ltd “I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour.” ~Dr. George Washington Carver, Tuskegee University,…
Love Notes – Justice for Black Farmers Act, Uprooting Racism, and a 2020 reflection
“Until I am free, you are not free either.” Fannie Lou Hamer The forces of oppression would like us to feel uncertain about whether we have a future at all, so planning for 2021 feels like an audacious act of…
Love Notes: New website, more store items, and fall updates
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou The original stewards of the land we farm in Grafton, New York are the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of…
Love Notes – Defending Black life, seeding hope, and decomposing racism
Thank you for the outpouring of support
Dear Community, We are humbled by the outpouring of support we have received from you in the last couple weeks, instilling us with hope for a more just future amidst the grief we feel about the continued legacy of anti-Black…
