“The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and bird songs. By a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to provide…
Love Notes – Farming While Black, BUGS, Sovereignty and Solidarity
“I often feel disconnected from nature in my day-to-day life. As I prepare and eat the amazing food; drink in the beautiful photographs; read the inspiring, educational and uplifting writings, Soul Fire Farm Share membership has nourished me body, mind…
LOVE NOTES – Spanish Immersion, NEFOC, Agroecology Encounter
“We can — we must — hope for a better world, because a better world IS possible! So, it’s left to us to continue struggling in that same spirit, for a world where poor people, people without a voice, demand…
LOVE NOTES – Builder’s Immersion, Harriet’s Apothecary, and fall beginnings
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” Harriet Tubman Photo from Harriet’s…
“Buy a Chicken for Your Neighbor”
At Soul Fire Farm we are committed to increasing the access people affected by food apartheid have to fresh, nutritious food as one way we combat oppression in the food system. Most of the meat accessible to low-income people and…
Love Notes – Lots of youthful energy at BLFI & BLYI
“Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.” Audre Lorde Olamina planting…
LOVE NOTES – BLFI, SOULstice, Seedkeeping, Black Land and Power Summit
“The Three Sisters offer us a new metaphor for an emerging relationship between indigenous knowledge and Western science, both of which are rooted in the earth. I think of the corn as traditional ecological knowledge, the physical and spiritual framework…
LOVE NOTES – Emet’s Bar Mitzvah, Farm Developments, and Land Sovereignty Work
“The plant people have taught me to be generous and not be shy about blossoming, that it is our nature. I think when others see us, it can inspire them to open up and blossom too and we can be…
Emet
Emet’s Bar Mitzvah Emet will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Saturday, May 26, 2018! We are grateful that you can join us in celebrating the wonderful young person that he is – enthusiastic mathematician, spirited…
LOVE NOTES – Farming While Black, in Sunshine and Solidarity
“Our great great grandmothers in Dahomey, West Africa, witnessed the kidnapping and disappearance of members of their community and experienced a rising unease about their own safety. As insurance for an uncertain future, they began the practice of braiding rice,…