"The Fight for Black Farmland Equity and Food Sovereignty"
"The Fight for Black Farmland Equity and Food Sovereignty"
Liberation Farm [update: 2/13/2025]
growing black vegan movement plants its flag
Black love grows: Meet the farming team behind Liberation Farm and Black VegFest
Black love grows: Meet the farming team behind Liberation Farm and Black VegFest
I’ve been running the beet race. Or rather it’s been running me — the race to get spring transplants into the ground always feels like a sprint you just can’t win. (And if you’re wondering why I’m not direct seeding, let’s pop the kettle on and have a long chat about cutworms.)
But imagine running that race, or that race running you, not just every spring. Imagine, if you will, living your whole life in that constant state of struggle. Cutworms and all. ...continue reading at Dirt Magazine black farm agriculture
Black love grows: Meet the farming team behind Liberation Farm and Black VegFest
Black love grows: Meet the farming team behind Liberation Farm and Black VegFest
Black love grows: Meet the farming team behind Liberation Farm and Black VegFest
I have been a faculty member of the Community Health department at CUNY since 2023. I teach food science, nutrition, and culinary arts to kids and adults. In these health circles, terms like food insecurity, food justice, and food sovereignty are frequently debated by examining case studies, analyzing data, and developing grassroots initiatives to address these important issues. ...continue reading at the Amsterdam News agriculture black farm
Black Farmers Did Not Receive $2.2BN
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About Liberation Farm
Our Market
Our Education
Our Education
A Black farm utilizes old-fashioned regenerative agriculture to bring our food to local markets. Brooklyn.
Our Education
Our Education
Our Education
It is up to us to teach our young people how to cultivate the land with care so we can produce sustainable agriculture. As a vegan farm, we protect the wildlife and learn new ways to reach the youth.
Our Community
Our Education
Our Community
Our Black farm believes in supporting local with agriculture, rest and healing.
Healing on Black Space
Khalil rates his time at Liberation Farm
Khalil attended Black VegFest Camp-Out on October 2022
Saundra inside our kitchen at Liberation Farm
Saundra of King of Glory Farms testimony after Farm Day visit to Liberation Farm on 4/9/22
Why Liberation Farm?
We farm with purpose.
What is Liberation Farm?
Liberation Farm is operated by Nadia and Omowale. LF is a space for Black culture to cultivate food and community agriculture. Our space is Unapologetically Black. It means we focus on teaching Black descendants who are less than 1% of the farm-owners in the US. Black farmers produce food on only .5% of the land. Liberation Farm is a 100% vegan group. Please, no animal food products while in space.
What do we grow on the land?
Liberation Farm has successfully grown beet, greens, cannabis, microgreens, oregano, peppers, spinach, squash and tomato, but we are definitely a beet farm. Over 90% of our crops are beets. Because beets are a superfood and both Nadia and Omowale love beets! Beets taste great! Beets are a sweetener. Beets are a good source of iron, potassium, magnesium, and Vitamin D6. Beets are an amazing blood purifier, heart regulator, skin tightener, and digestive system cleaner.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
Our mission at Liberation Farm is to nourish and provide space to grow people and plants. We are a Black farm + Black space.
We give respect to Fannie Lou Hamer who helped establish the Freedom Farm Cooperative developed in 1967. 102 years after the Emancipation Proclamation supposedly granted all former African/Black slaves freedom she believed we needed to secure our access to agricultural land. Why? Hamer knew we were not free from being discriminated against, murdered with impunity, redlined or robbed of land, food and shelter. Hamer was an outspoken farmer, educator and activist born October 6, 1917 in Mississippi. She worked with numerous Black organizations including Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Hamer lived the suffering of being a stressed as a Black woman and from cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Fannie Lou Hamer died on March 14, 1977.
Liberation Farm reminds us of Fannie Lou Hamer and her work.
"Sometimes it seems to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom." -Fannie Lou Hamer