Azuré Keahi, Business Manager, (she/they) is a mixed race Kanaka Maoli, mother, grower, writer, and record keeper based in Troy, NY. Her first taste of food sovereignty came through her childhood — foraging for lilikoi (passionfruit), guava, and mountain apple on the eastside of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Transitioning to the continent revealed opportunities to explore earthwork as healing for herself and surrounding community. Motivated by the stark parallels of food apartheid on island and in inner cities, she continued to explore accessible ways for cultivating edible oases on post-industrial soil. She spent 5 seasons nurturing the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s block-wide, public food forest and demonstration garden, Collard City Growers. Having managed a food business in NYC, farmer’s markets for Denison Farm, holding worker-ownership at Capital Bookkeeping Cooperative and the gifts of her Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and Chinese ancestors, she is guided by diverse experience and history. She offers a wealth of curiosity and critical thinking to farm business and is especially interested in sharing how thorough recordkeeping processes and analysis are crucial to the success of reliable food systems and disentangling from the colonial values that define conventional business.