A-Z National Agriculture, Gardening & Farming

A Growing Culture  @agrowingculture

“We know that farmers should be at the forefront of agriculture, and we work hard to protect their natural right to define and shape their own food system. We do this by reframing the way the world views farmers, facilitating collective learning and catalyzing innovation through farmer-to-farmer exchange, and supporting on-the-ground efforts for farmer-led research and documentation.”

Acres4Change // Damascus, MD // @acres4change

“Acres4Change (A4C) combats poverty by providing land and professional resources to qualifying individuals to generate income and generational wealth. We foster a more harmonious society by promoting education and property ownership while bringing diverse individuals together to challenge wealth inequality, poverty, and racism. A4C re-invests resources in underserved communities by acquiring and distributing land in Virginia, Maryland, and ultimately, throughout the United States.

Our fellowship program provides financial opportunities for individuals and their families and creates lasting impact by contributing to the economic, civic, and social value in underserved communities.”

Acres of Ancestry/Black Agrarian Fund // @acresofancestry

“The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit  ecosystem rooted in Black ecocultur Ial traditions and textile arts to regenerate custodial landownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the South.”

Acta Non Verba // Oakland, CA // @anv_farm

“Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (ANV) elevates life in Oakland and beyond by challenging oppressive dynamics and environments through urban farming. Founded and led mainly by women of color from the surrounding neighborhood and larger community, ANV creates a safe and creative outdoor space for children, youth, and families in East Oakland, CA. ANV engages and strengthens young people’s understanding of nutrition, food production, and healthy living as well as strengthens their ties to the community.”

African-American Farmers of California // Fresno, CA

“The Fresno-based African American Farmers of California is a 501c3 non-profit organization headquartered in the heart of the Central Valley, Fresno, California. The organization currently uses 22 acres as demonstration farm, farmers training, cultivating traditional African-American crops, & empowering youth to learn about farming”

Agricultural Justice Project

“The Agricultural Justice Project (AJP) works to transform the existing agricultural system. We seek empowerment, justice and fairness for all who labor from farm to retail. We provide farms and food businesses with technical tools to improve work and trade practices from farm to retail, including extensive toolkits and templates, one-on-one technical assistance, and a stakeholder-driven certification program for high bar social justice standards — Food Justice Certification (FJC), the gold standard for labor and trade practices in North America. 

Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) // Salinas, CA // @albafarmers

“Our mission is to create economic opportunities for aspiring, limited-resource farmers through land-based organic agriculture education.”

Anishinaabe Agricultural Institute // Snellman, MN // @winonaladuke

“The Anishinaabe Agricultural Institute is working to restore agro-biodiversity, through restoring local food systems, hemp, and traditional heritage varieties. We are focused on regenerative and reduced petroleum agriculture.”

Appetite for Change // Minneapolis, MN // @appetiteforchange

“We use food as a tool to build health, wealth, and social change in North Minneapolis. We bring people together to learn, cook, eat, and grow food, creating change that lasts.”

BCAGlobal // New York, NY // @bcaglobal

“BCAGlobal empowers people of color across diverse cultures through education, training and mentoring within a mindfulness approach to food, coupled with practical skills in the hospitality & culinary industries, leading to meaningful connections that further a vision of a beloved community.”

Biodynamic Association (BDA) // @biodynamics.com

“The Biodynamic Association (BDA) awakens and enlivens co-creative relationships between humans and the earth, transforming the practice and culture of agriculture to renew the vitality of the earth, the integrity of our food, and the health and wholeness of our communities.  The Association’s commitment to anti-racism includes scholarships for BIPOC individuals and collaborations with BIPOC-led farms and organizations.”  

Black Belt Justice Center (BBJC) // Washington, DC

“The Black Belt Justice Center (BBJC) is a legal and advocacy nonprofit organization that serves African American farmers, landowners, and communities in the Black Belt region in efforts to retain and increase landownership; to create sustainable land-based cooperatives and entrepreneurial businesses; and to ensure intergenerational and community wealth.”

Black Church Food Security Network // @blackchurchfsn

“The Black Church Food Security Network utilizes an asset-based approach in organizing and linking the vast resources of historically African American congregations in rural and urban communities to advancing food and land sovereignty.”

Black Dirt Farm Collective // @b_d_f_c

“The Black Dirt Farm Collective is a collective of Black farmers, educators, scientists, agrarians, seed keepers, organizers, and researchers guiding a political education process. Through our cultivation of a Black agrarian education (Afroecology).”

Black Earth Farms Collective // San Francisco, CA // @blackearthfarms

“The Black Earth Farms Collective is an agroecological lighthouse organization composed of skilled Pan-African and Pan-Indigenous farmers, builders and educators who spread ancestral knowledge and train community members to build collectivized, autonomous, and chemical free food systems in urban and peri-urban environments throughout the Greater East San Francisco Bay Area.”

Black Family Land Trust, Inc. (BFLT) // NC

“The Black Family Land Trust, Inc. (BFLT) incorporated in 2004 and based in North Carolina, is one of the nation’s only conservation land trust dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically underserved landowners assets.”

Black Farmer Fund // NY

“The mission of Black Farmer Fund is to create a thriving, resilient, and equitable food system by investing in black food systems entrepreneurs and communities in New York State.”

Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association // NC

“BFAA (Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association) is a non-profit organization created to respond to the issues and concerns of Black farmers in the U.S. and abroad. Formed in 1997, the organization boasts a membership of over 1,500 farmers nationwide, and 21 state chapters.”

Black Farmers Collective 

“The Black Farmers Collective is a group of urban food system activists dedicated to providing opportunities to improve the health of our communities through all aspects of the food system.”

Black Oaks Center // Saint Anne, IL

“Our vision is to create safe and healing spaces that are founded on the principles of environmental stewardship and social equality where community members can learn the skills required to become masterful in sustainability and successfully transition to a post-carbon world. These safe and healing spaces are lifeboats that will keep our communities, families, and children alive and thriving during an energy descent.”

Black Seed Farms // Whidbey Island, Wa

Black Seed Farms supports generations of the black diaspora, indigenous, immigrant and refugee communities reconnecting to land, farming and healing spaces.

Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers Cooperative of Pittsburgh // Pittsburg, PA

“The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-Op (BUGs) is a gathering point for black urban agriculturalists. We work with local black communities to grow food and to share black cultural traditions.”

Black Urban Growers (BUGS)

“Black Urban Growers (BUGS) is an organization committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, we nurture collective Black leadership to ensure we have a seat at the table.”

Black Yield Institute // Baltimore, MD // @blackyield

“Black Yield Institute’s work is centered on and operates from the following action pillars:Cooperative Economic Development, Political Education & Social Action, Black Solidarity/Cultural Affirmation, Spiritual/Psychological Healing”

Boston Black Hospitality Coalition // Boston, MA // @blackhospitalitycoalition

“The Boston Black Hospitality Coalition aims to preserve the few gathering spaces for the city’s many black residents – our neighborhood bars & restaurants. Our businesses play a critical role in community and economic development. Highlighting this we seek to ensure a prolonged future for our black-owned institutions.”

Brooklyn Movement Center // Brooklyn, NY // @bkmovement

“Through our food justice working group, we bring together residents of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights to plan for solutions that will strengthen health equity in our communities. We are currently organizing to open a food cooperative that offers healthy and affordable food while building a solidarity economy.”

Bueno Para Todos // Villanueva, NM 

“Bueno Para Todos is a farming cooperative in Northern New Mexico dedicated to growing locally, with traditional & organic practices. We work with non-profits and individuals from Albuquerque, Santa Fe & New Mexico to heal our land and ourselves.”

California Farmer Justice Collaborative // CA

“The California Farmer Justice Collaborative’s mission is to ensure that farmers of color are empowered to directly participate and effectively lead in building a fair food and farming system in California.”

Castanea Fellowship // Berkeley, CA // @castaneafellowship

“The Castanea Fellowship is a new, two-year fellowship for diverse leaders working for a racially just food system in any of the areas of: health, environment, agriculture, regional economies, or community development.”

CATA – The Farmworkers Support Committee // Glassboro, NJ

“The Mission of CATA is to empower farm workers and immigrant workers to fight for their rights so they can live a full life. We work together to achieve safe working and living conditions, fair wages, and to be treated with respect and dignity.”

Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) // DC // 

“What started in 1993 as a grassroots effort by Florida tomato farmworkers to achieve fair wages and better working conditions, has mushroomed into a nationally and internationally recognized organization. CIW has launched several innovative, worker-center programs, including the Fair Food Program, which was recognized by the Harvard Business Review as among the 15 “most important social-impact success stories of the past century.”

Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED) // Santa Rosa, CA

“We’re building a cooperative food economy, powered by the visionary leadership of young people of color! We partner with food and land co-ops across the US and Canada to embody cooperative values + economics.”

Corbin Hill Food Project // New York, NY // @corbinhill_foodproject

“The Corbin Hill Farm Share is a year-round, weekly subscription program of fresh, high quality, locally grown vegetables and fruits delivered to our community partner sites across New York City.”

Cosecha // @cosecha_harvest

“Movimiento Cosecha is a national, non-violent movement fighting for permanent protection, dignity, and respect for all undocumented immigrants.”

Daily Bowl // Union City, CA // @dailybowluc

“At Daily Bowl, our mission is simple. Volunteers recover edible food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it to local agencies to feed needy families.”

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network // Detroit, MI // @dbcfsn_org

 “The organization was founded to ensure that Detroit’s African American population participated in the food movement and because we are the vast majority of the population in Detroit, that we are in the leadership on that movement locally.”

Dream of Wild Health // Minneapolis, MI // @dreamofwildhealth

“The mission of Dream of Wild Health is to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines and lifeways.”

Earthseed Land Cooperative 

”Our mission is to remember and reimagine our relationship to ourselves, each other and the land in pursuit and practice of collective liberation.”

East Oakland Collective // Oakland, CA // @eastoaklandcollective

“We are addressing the deep food insecurity by distributing food from restaurants, caterers, and food services. We distribute individually packaged fresh meals, non-perishable food bags and produce bags.”

Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective 

“Eastern Woodlands Rematriation is a collective of Indigenous people restoring the spiritual foundation of our livelihoods through regenerative food systems.”

Equity at the Table (EATT) // @equityatthetable

“Equity At The Table (EATT) is very much inspired by the aphorism that it’s better to “build a longer table, not a higher fence.” EATT is a practical and proactive response to the blatant gender and racial discrimination that plagues the food industry. EATT is an easy-to-navigate database for food industry professionals featuring only women/gender non-conforming individuals and focusing primarily on POC and the LGBTQ community.”

Family Agriculture Resource Management Services // @f.a.r.m.s

“Family Agriculture Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S.) is a national nonprofit dedicated to reversing small farm land loss to ensure generational wealth and reducing hunger in rural low-income communities. We also assist farmers with retail market expansion to ensure future farm revenue. We provide these services with integrity and quality.”

Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO // Toledo, OH

“Called upon to challenge the deplorable conditions of the broader workforce that remains voiceless, powerless, and invisible to mainstream America”

Farm School NYC // New York, NY // @farmschool_nyc

“Farm School NYC trains local residents in urban agriculture in order to build self-reliant communities and inspire positive local action around food access and social, economic, and racial justice issues.”

Farms to Grow, Inc. // Oakland, CA // @farmstogrow

“Farms to grow, Inc is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to working with Black farmers and underserved sustainable farmers around the country. Farms To Grow, Inc. is committed to sustainable farming and innovative agriculture practices which preserve the cultural and biological diversity, the agroecological balance of the local environment.”

Farmworker Association of Florida // Apopka, FL // @floridafarmworkersassociation

“The Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF) is a statewide, grassroots, community-based, non-profit, farmworker membership organization with over 10,000 Haitian, Hispanic, and African American members and five offices in the state of Florida with a 35 year history of working for social and environmental justice with farmworkers.”

Farmworker Justice // Washington, DC

“Farmworker Justice is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice.”

Federation of Southern Cooperatives // East Point, GA // @federationofsoutherncoop

”The Federation is a non-profit cooperative association of black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives.  We are organized by state associations with field offices serving a primary membership base in the Southern States.”

First Nations Development Institute // Longmont, CO // @fndi303

“First Nations Development Institute improves economic conditions for Native Americans through direct financial grants, technical assistance & training, and advocacy & policy.”

Food Chain Workers Alliance // Los Angeles, CA // @foodchainworkers

“The Food Chain Workers Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain.”

Food First // Oakland, CA **Please see comment for additional information**

“The Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, works to end the injustices that cause hunger through research, education and action.”

Food Funded JEDI // CA
“FOOD FUNDED convenes food/ag entrepreneurs and investors to catalyze the investment flow into Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion in our food system. For the second time, the Food Investor Fair 2021 will feature all BIPOC finalist entrepreneurs.”

Front Line Farming // Denver, CO // @frontlinefarming

“The mission of Frontline Farming is to create greater equity across our food system on  the Front Range of Colorado. We specifically seek to support and create greater leadership and access for women and people of color in our food systems. We achieve these goals  through growing food, listening, educating, honoring land and ancestors, policy initiatives, and direct action.”

Gangstas to Growers // GA

“Gangstas to Growers is a program focused on empowering at-risk youth and our formerly incarcerated through agriculture, employment, and entrepreneurship. We provide paid entrepreneurial internships for at-risk youth, gang members and formerly incarcerated individuals to give them a chance to participate in the legitimate economy.”

George Washington Carver Urban/Small Farmers Collective // MD

“George Washington Carver Urban/Small Farmer’s Coalition, Inc. (GWCUSFC) is building an organizational structure that is primarily focused on connecting underserved rural farmers/landowners with with urban families and communities to address the food and economic disparities that exist within the service areas of our coalition.”

Grow Where You Are // Atlanta, GA // @growwhereyouare

“Grow Where You Are is a dynamic full service social enterprise in the field of local food systems.  We partner with organizations and individuals to bring food abundance to communities and those who value real food.”

Habesha // Redan, GA // @habeshainc

“HABESHA, Inc. is a Pan-African organization that cultivates leadership in youth and families through practical experiences in cultural education, sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship, holistic health, and technology.”

Harlem Grown // Harlem, NY //@harlemgrown

“Harlem Grown is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire youth to lead healthy and ambitious lives through mentorship and hands-on education in urban farming, sustainability, and nutrition.”

HEAL Food Alliance // @healfoodalliance

“HEAL’s mission is to build our collective power to create food and farm systems that are healthy for our families, accessible and affordable for all communities, and fair to the hard-working people who grow, distribute, prepare, and serve our food — while protecting the air, water, and land we all depend on.”

Hope Collaborative // Oakland, CA // @hopecollabo

“Our mission is to advance racial, economic, and health equity in Oakland through community-driven food and neighborhood initiatives. We envision a vibrant Oakland where historically marginalized communities shape their neighborhoods’ future, have equitable opportunities for healthy food and safe community spaces, and build community wealth.”

J.E.D.I Collaborative // CA

“A food industry alliance, “The J.E.D.I Collaborative of industry peers and experts is leading this project for the natural products industry to frame the business case for embedding justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into our entire food ecosystem”

Just Call Me Chef // @justcallmechef

“Just Call Me Chef is a call to action movement, highlighting Black Women Chefs, more than just a calendar. Just Call me Chef is a sisterhood, a professional networking organization, mentorship, and marketing.”

La Via Campesina // Eastlea, Zimbabwe

“La Via Campesina is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world.”

Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) // Durham, NC

“The Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) was founded in 1982 by the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers to curtail epidemic losses of Black owned land in North Carolina.  LLPP was incorporated in the state of North Carolina in 1983.  The organization broadened its mission in 1993 to provide legal support and assistance to all financially distressed and limited resource farmers and landowners in North Carolina.”

Love Fed Initiative // New Haven, CT // @LoveFedNHV

“Empowering New Haven & CT residents by reconnecting us to our inherent relationships with food, land & self-resiliency through Black-led & community-run food systems & agriCultural initiatives.”

Maurice Small // Atlanta, GA // @mauricesmall

“This love for natural process and growth fuels Maurice’s efforts to build community as he cultivates a regional and national vision for sustainable agriculture, healthy lifestyles in underserved communities & urban/rural collaboration between growers & vendors. Maurice works to transform the food landscape in North America via regional initiatives that create and rebuild local food systems.”

International Microgreen Growers Association Florida  // FL

The International Microgreen Growers Association Florida (IMGA Florida) actively works to grow awareness of the Microgreen Industry globally, pursues and develops research about our industry, and provides valuable networking, educational, and other opportunities to support our members who are growers and suppliers in the industry.

Modest Family Solutions //Everett, Wa

Modest Family Solutions is a sustainable social enterprise climate action program enabling food justice ecosystems that impact land conservation, food waste and insecurities affecting generations of historically underserved and marginalized communities.

National Black Food and Justice Alliance (NBFJA) // @blackfoodjustice

“National Black Food and Justice Alliance (NBFJA) organizes for black food and land, by increasing the visibility of visionary Black leadership, advancing Black people’s struggle for just and sustainable communities, and building power in our food systems and land stewardship.”

National Hmong American Farmers // West Saint Paul, MN // @hafafarmersmn

“We are dedicated to advancing the prosperity of Hmong farmers through cooperative endeavors, capacity building and advocacy. HAFA was started and is led by family farmers. Organizing is in our DNA.”

New Communities Inc. // Albany, GA

“New Communities is a grassroots organization that has worked for more than 40 years to empower African American families in Southwest Georgia and advocate for social justice.”

Operation Spring Plant // NC

“Operation Spring Plant, Inc., also known as OSP, is a grass root, nonprofit organization. It is made up of African-American and limited resource farmers and concerned urban citizens from Region K and surrounding counties of North Carolina.”

Planting Justice // Oakland, CA // @planting.justice

“Planting Justice is a grassroots organization with a mission to empower people impacted by mass incarceration and other social inequities with the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing.”

Pollinate Farm // Oakland, CA 

“We believe that everyone deserves fresh, local and healthy food. In 2013, we opened our doors as an edible plant nursery, urban farm supply, demonstration garden and learning space in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, CA. In 2020, like many small businesses, we closed the doors to our brick-and-mortar shop and are now online! In addition to supplies for your backyard farm or kitchen garden, we now offer consulting, coaching and garden installation services to help you grow, raise, and preserve your harvest.”

Providence Farm Collective // Orchard Park, NY // 

“Providence Farm Collective (PFC) has its roots in the Somali Bantu Community Farm, a three-year pilot project. The pilot explored the challenges and opportunities of addressing fresh food insecurity and farmland inequity. PFC supports underserved farmers in Western New York needing access to clean, rural farmland, farming and business education, technical assistance, access to markets and the opportunity to farm for income. PFC also offers youth education and employment programs.”

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United // New York, NY // @roc_united

“The Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United is a nonprofit organization fighting to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s restaurant workforce.”

RID-ALL Green Partnership // Cleveland, OH

“We have turned an empty and forgotten piece of land in Cleveland’s Kinsman Neighborhood into an urban farm where we grow produce to bring healthy, local food to area institutions and citizens and train others on this work.”

Roots Rising // West Oakland, CA

“Roots Rising is the seed of People’s Grocery and Center for Third World Organizing. It is a food and economic justice project in West Oakland, CA”

Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA) // Pittsboro, NC

“Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA) believes that in order to ensure a safe, adequate supply of healthy food, we must protect farm workers and encourage environmentally sound farming. We see environmental sustainability, economic viability, biodiversity, and social justice as inextricably linked. Therefore, the best way to ensure a just, sustainable future for farming is to create a reality where farmers feel supported and protected, and have the resources to thrive.”

ShoppeBlack – The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens

Slow Food Mutual Aid // Brooklyn, NY // @slowfoodusa

“This is a database of all the ways we are mutually supporting each other in this time of pandemic crisis. Slow Food USA is activating its wide grassroots network to aggregate all the ingenious ways local communities are organizing. This Slow Food Mutual Aid database is a location specific listing of community innovation and resources– crowdsourced from everyone and curated by Slow Food Chapters and Leaders. Please share anything and everything that is a reliable and legitimate aid to all who are vulnerable– for recently unemployed, for students and families, for small businesses, for all.  Our hope is that this tool will be valuable (1) locally as a resource guide and (2) everywhere as shared space where ideas can cross-pollinate and spread.”

Small Farm Outreach Program // VA

“The Small Farm Outreach Program (SFOP), a part of Cooperative Extension at Virginia State University, educates and empowers small, limited-resource, socially disadvantaged and veteran farmers and ranchers to own, operate and sustain farms and ranches independently with agricultural training programs that improve farm management skills and quality of life.”

Sogorea Te Land Trust // Oakland, CA

“The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship.”

Soil Generation // Philadelphia, PA // @soilgeneration

“Soil Generation is a Black & Brown-led coalition of gardeners, farmers, individuals, and community-based organizations working to ensure people of color regain community control of land and food, to secure access to the resources necessary to determine how the land is used, address community health concerns, grow food and improve the environment.”

Soilful City // Washington, DC // @soilful

“Soilful seeks to bring justice to communities and heal the sacred relationship between communities of African decent and Mother earth. Soilful views farming not only as a way to cultivate food and sovereignty for communities, but as a way to heal and rebuild our souls.”

Soul Fire Farm // Petersburg, NY // @soulfirefarm

“Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC*-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. We bring diverse communities together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. We are training the next generation of activist-farmers and strengthening the movements for food sovereignty and community self-determination.”

Soul Food Sessions // @soulfoodsessionsclt

“Soul Food Sessions – Inc.  is a movement to acknowledge and support people of color in the culinary arts, restaurant and hospitality industries, and beverage services. We create innovative dining experiences with menus that reflect diverse specialties that include Southern foodways and other global gastronomies with an African twist. We endeavor to be a strong presence in the food community as well as an innovative one that provides excellent service and education to our supporters.”

Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network (SAAFON) // Atlanta, GA

“Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network (SAAFON) is a nonprofit based in Atlanta, GA. We are a network of Black farmers in the Southeastern United States who are committed to culturally relevant, ancestrally guided, and ecologically sustainable agricultural-based living.”

Southern Grassroots Economies Project // New Market, TN

“The Southern Grassroots Economies Project (SGEP) is building networks across the US South to promote and launch sustainable cooperative economies. Our work is inspired by the rich history of social justice struggle in the South and looks to the example of the worker-owned cooperatives of Mondragon, Spain and Emilia Ramagno, Italy for guidance.”

Tamales y Bicicletas // Minneapolis, MN

“Tamales y Bicicletas is dedicated to strengthening our Latino and immigrant communities through bike projects, green farming, cultural empowerment, and environmental justice.”

The Food Project // MA // @the_food_project

The National Black Farmers Association // Bakersville, VA

“The National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) is a non-profit organization representing African American farmers and their families in the United States. As an association, it serves tens of thousands of members nationwide. NBFA’s education and advocacy efforts have been focused on civil rights, land retention, access to public and private loans, education and agricultural training, and rural economic development for black and other small farmers.”

The Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust // @NEFOCLandTrust

“To advance land sovereignty in the northeast region through permanent and secure land tenure for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian farmers and land stewards who will use the land in a sacred manner that honors our ancestors dreams – for sustainable farming, human habitat, ceremony, native ecosystem restoration, and cultural preservation.”

The Okra Project // @theokraproject

“The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.”

The Ron Finley Project // @ronfinleyproject

“Ron envisions a world where gardening is gangsta, where cool kids know their nutrition and where communities embrace the act of growing, knowing and sharing the best of the earth’s fresh-grown food.”

The Seeding Power Fellowship // New York, NY

“The Seeding Power Fellowship is an innovative 18-month, cohort-based food justice fellowship program for experienced leaders working across sectors to build equitable food systems. In its inaugural year it will accept applications from leaders in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island.”

Truly Living Well // Atlanta, GA // @trulylivingwell

“Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture is committed to bringing good food, good health and well-being to Atlanta’s urban community.

Feeding people right where they live is our mission.”

Urban Farm Institute // Mattapan, MA

“UFI’s mission is to develop and promote urban farming to engage individuals in growing food and building a healthy community.”

Urban Growers Collective // Chicago, IL // @urbangrowerscollective

“Rooted in growing food, we cultivate nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing and creativity through urban agriculture.”

Urban Tilth // Richmond, CA

“Urban Tilth hires and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture in west Contra Costa County to help our community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.”

Vermont Releaf Collective // Vermont // @vtreleafcollective

The Vermont Releaf Collective stands for racial equity in land, environment, agriculture, and food systems. We are a growing network of BIPOC folks in Vermont interested in and/or involved in land, environment, agriculture, and food based intiatives. 

Why Hunger // New York, NY // @whyhungerpix

“WhyHunger believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial and economic justice. We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world.”

Schools & Education Programs

Natural Choices Botanica

“Founded in 1992 by Angelique Moss-Greer. We are the oldest herbalism school dedicated to teaching the holistic health and healing of African & native people throughout the diaspora.”

East Jordan Public Schools – Michigan

Title VI Native American Education programming – Program Objectives and Services: Increase knowledge of cultural identity and awareness – through culturally relevant activities during the school day and after school; Increase academic achievement – through academic tutoring based on the individual needs of each student; Increase Native American language instruction – through Native language activities during the school day and after school.” Their “Miijim (food) Makers” student club utilizes the school garden to grow, harvest, and prepare Indigenous foods to explore and maintain historical Indigenous Foodways of the Anishinaabek peoples. Contact Angela Barrera, Title VI Director. 

Farms, Restaurants, & Companies

The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens by Shoppe Black

“SHOPPE BLACK is a Philadelphia, PA based company founded by husband and wife team, Tony O. Lawson and Shantrelle P. Lewis. We create and curate content related to Black business ownership and Black culture in the global diaspora. Since 2015, we have profiled thousands of businesses and interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs and professionals from New York to Nigeria, all in the name of celebrating Black Business excellence and encouraging our community to invest in itself and to #SHOPPEBLACK.”

Farms & Gardens (by State)

Alabama

Darden Bridgeforth & Sons // Tanner, AL // Corn, Wheat, Soy

Fountain Heights Farm // Birmingham, AL // @fountainheightsfarms // CSA

Arkansas

Webbs Urban Produce Farm // McCrory, AR // Produce

Arizona

Bright Star Community Development Corp // Tucson, AZ // Food Pantry

Patagonia Flower Farm // AZ // Flowers // @patagoniaflowerfarm

Tiger Mountain Foundation // AZ // Community Garden Organizer // @TigermountainFDN

California

African American Farmers of California demo farm // Fresno, CA // Education

Afrika Town Community Garden // Fresno, CA // Community Garden

Black Earth Farms // San Francisco, CA // @blackearthfarms // Education

City Heights Farmers Market // East San Diego City, CA // Farmers Market

City Slicker Farms // Oakland, CA // Community Garden Organizer

Community Services Unlimited // Los Angeles, CA // Community Garden Organizer

Crop Swap LA // Los Angeles, CA // @lacropswap

Farmer Mai Grain Farm // CA // @farmermainguyen // Organic Heirloom Grain

Fresno Freedom School Demonstration Farm // Fresno, CA // Demonstration Farm and School

Kapwa Gardens // San Francisco, CA // @kapwagardens // Community Garden

Logan’s Gardens // CA

Lunaria Flower Farm // CA // @lunariaflowerfarm

Organic Harvest Gardens // CA // @organicharvestgrdns

Payómkawichum Nation – Pauma Tribal Farms // CA

Phat Beets Produce // CA

Planting Justice // CA

Raised Roots // CA // @raisedroots

Radical Family Farms // CA

Rancho de Rodney // CA

RKelley Farms // CA

Sam Cobb Farms // CA

Scott Family Farms // CA

Seeds of Xanxadu // CA @theseedsofxanxadu

Shaoshan Farm // CA, Bolinas // @Shaoshanfarm

Sierra Seeds // CA // Sierra Seeds // @rowenwhite

Sola Food Co-op // CA

Soul Flower Farm // CA // @soulflowerfarm

South Central Farm // CA

South Central Farmers’ Cooperative (CSA) // CA

Summaeeverythang Community Center // CA

Three Sisters Garden // CA

Adventures to Dreams // CA // @adventurestodreams

Feed Our Soul // CA // @feedoursoul

Five Finger Farms // CA

IGH Gardens // CA // @ighgardens

LA Green Grounds // CA // @lagreengrounds

Pinehouse Edible Gardens // CA // @pinehouseediblegardens

We Grow Urban Farm // CA // @wegrowurbanfarm

Yisrael Family Urban Farm // CA

Connecticut 

Park City Harvest // CT

Root Life // CT // @root.life

District of Columbia

Afroculinaria // DC

Community Farming Alliance // DC

Good Sense Farm // DC

Soilful City // DC

The Rural Coalition // DC // @ruralco

Three Part Harmony Farm // DC // @3phfarm

Florida

Harvest Blessing Garden // FL

Cool Runnings Organic Farms // FL // @coolrunningsorganicfarms

Henrietta Bridge Farm Project // FL // @urbangrowerscedc

International Microgreen Growers Association Florida // FL // @imgaflorida.org

Smarter By Nature // FL // @smarterbynature

Infinite Zion Farms // FL // @infinitezionfarms

Georgia

Atlanta Harvest // GA

Comfort Farms // GA

Federation of Southern Cooperatives // GA

Gangstas To Growers / The Come Up Project // GA

Gilliams Community Garden // GA

Gilliard Farms // GA

Grow Where You Are // GA

Habesha // GA

Haylene the Garden Queen // GA

High Hog Farm // GA

Mayflor Farms // GA

Mena’s Farm // GA

Muhammad Farms // GA

Nature’s Candy Farms // GA

Outdoor Fresh Farm // GA

Patchwork City Farms // GA

Phoenix Gardens // GA

SAAFON // GA

Semente Farm // GA

Shamba ATL // GA

SWAG // GA

Swanson Family Farm // GA

The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm // GA

Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture // GA

Urban Sprout Farm // GA

West Georgia Growers Cooperative // GA

Bread and Butter Farms // GA // @bread.and.butter.farm.to.table

EM Farms // GA // @em_farms

Flora Gothica Farms // GA // @floragothicafarms

Georgia Roots Urban Farm // GA // @georgiaroots_urbanfarm

Gilliams Community Garden // GA // @gilliamscommunitygarden

God’s Garden Girl! // GA

Gratitude Botanical Farm // GA // @gratitudebotanicalfarm

Holmes Gohard // GA // @holmesgohard

Honey Bee Goode Apiaries // GA // @honeybeegoodeapiaries

Local Lands // GA // @geechiefarmers

Love Blossom Farm // GA // @loveblossomfarm

Mena’s Farm // GA // @menas_farm

Miller City Farm // GA // @millercityfarm

On Da Farm // GA // @raskofipresentspermakulture

Young Female Farmers // GA // @youngfemalefarmers

Hawaii

Aina Company // HI // @aina_company

MAʻO Organic Farm // HI

Slow Island Co // HI

Lā Kāhea Community Farm // Maui, HI 

Illinois

Healthy Food Hub // IL

Trinity United Church of Christ Farmers Market // IL

Urban Growers Collective // IL

Your Bountiful Harvest Family Farm // IL

Indiana

Community Food Box Project // IN

Growing Good in the Hood // IN

Indiana Black Farmers Coop // IN

KHEPRW Institute // IN

P.L.A.N.T.S On Plates // IN

Iowa

Minerva’s Meadow // IA

RadiateDSM Urban Farm // IA

Southern Goods // IA

We Arose Co-op // IA

Kansas

The Hillbilly African // KS // @thehillbillyafrican

Kentucky

Ballew Estates // KY // @ballewestatesllc

Barbour’s Farm LLC // KY

Black Soil Life // KY

Kentucky Greens Co. // KY // @kentuckygreens

Slak Market Farm // KY // @slakmarketfarm

The Russellville Urban Gardening Project // KY

Louisiana

Armstrong Farms // LA

Grow Dat Youth Farm // LA // @growdatyouthfarm

Massachusetts 

Common Good Cooperatives // MA // @thecommongoodproject

Dudley Grows // MA

Flats Mentor Farm // MA // @flats_mentor_farm

Urban Farming Institute of Boston // MA

Maryland

Bliss Meadow & Backyard Basecamp // MD // @Backyard_Basecamp

Tha Flower Factory // MD

The Bladensburg Farm // MD

The Greener Garden // MD

Cherry Hill Urban Garden // MD

DC Urban Greens Inc. // MD // @dcurbangreens

Deep Roots Farm // MD // @farmergale

District Growers // MD // @districtgrowers

Dodo Farms // MD // @dodofarms

Eco City Farms // MD // @ecocityfarms

H St. Farms // MD // @hstfarms

HYPE Yourh and Community Garden // MD // @hypegardenproject

Strength to Love II // MD // @strengthtolovefarm

Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance// MD // @ujamaafarms

Maine

New Roots Community Farm // ME // @newrootscoop

Somali Bantu Community Association // ME // @somalibantumaine

Michigan

Barbara Norman’s Blueberry Patch // MI

D-Town Farm // MI

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network // MI

Mshko’Ode Farm // Brutus, MI 

Ziibimijwang Farm; Minogin Market // MI 

Minnesota

Divine Natural Ancestry // Minneapolis, MN // @divinenaturalancestry

Grand Risings Farm// Hinckley, MN//instagram: grandrisingsfarm

Forty Acre Co-op// Sandstone, MN//

Naima’s Farm// Marine on St Croix, MN

Singing Hills Goat Dairy // Nerstrand, MN *in transition to black ownership*

Tuntum Blackhill //  Webster, MN

Missouri

Bohlen Family Farms // MO

Nile Valley Aquaponics // MO // @nilevalleyaquaponics

Shire Gate Farm // MO

Mississippi

Foot Print Farms // MS // @footprintfarms

North Carolina

Abanitu Farm // NC

Faithfull Farms // NC

First Fruits Farm // NC

Golden Organic Farm // NC

Master Blend Family Farms // NC

Mother’s Finest Urban Farms // NC

Oliver’s AgroForest // NC // @olivers.agroforest

Pine Knot Farms // NC

Sankofa Farms // NC

Savage Farms // NC

Growing High Point // NC // @growinghighpoint

Hempfinity // NC // @hempfinityus

Kindered Seedlings // NC // @kindredseedlings

Moonlight Farms // NC // @MoonlightfarmsNC

Off Grid in Color // NC // @offgridincolor

Tall Grass Food Box // NC // @tallgrassfoodbox

Urban Community Agrinomics Catawba Trail Farm // NC // @urbancommunityagrinomics

New Hampshire

Fresh Start Farms // NH

New Jersey

Free Haven Farms // NJ // @freehavenfarms

Green Acre Community Garden // NJ // @paterson_green_acre

Jannah on Grafton // NJ // @newarksjog

Morris Gbolo’s World Crop Farms // NJ

Ward’s Farm NJ // NJ // @wardsfarmnj

Zach & Zoë Sweet Bee Farm // NJ // @zachandzoehoney

New Mexico

Sawasawa Organic Farming // NM // @sawasawaorganicfarm

New York

Black Urban Growers // NY

BLK Projek – The Black Feminist Project // NY

Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest // NY

Corbin Hill Food Project // NY

East New York Farms // NY

La Familia Verde // NY

Oko Farms // NY // @okofarms

Rise and Root Farm // // NY // @riseandrootfarm

Rocky Acres Community Farm // NY

Soul Fire Farm // NY

Triple J Farm // NY

Wild Seed Community Farms // NY

Brooklyn Rescue Mission Bed Stuy Farm and Urban Harvest Center // NY // @brooklyn_rescue_mission

Hattie Carthan Community Market // NY // @hattie.carthan

Isabahlia Garden // NY // @isabahlialoef

La Familia Verde // NY // @lafamilia.verde

Lomar Farms // NY // @lomarfarms

Papa Rozier Farms // NY // @paparozier

Phoenix Community Garden // NY

Reclamation Herb Farm // Germantown, NY // medicinal herbs // @reclamation_herb_farm

Shinnecock Hemp // NY // @shinnecock_hemp

Sweet Freedom Farm // Germantown, NY // vegetables & maple syrup // @sweetfreedomfarm

Tehuti Ma’at // NY // @tehutimaat

Universe City // NY // @universecitynyc

Ohio

Chateau Hough Vineyard // OH

Rid-All Green Partnership // OH

Oklahoma

Oregon 

Another Spring Farm // OR

Baylasan Botanicals // OR

Black Futures Farm // OR // @blackfuturesfarm

Campo Collectivo // OR

Chalchi Farm, Tanager Farm // OR

Cultivated Roots // OR // @cultivated_roots_farm

Flying Dogheart Farm // OR

Good Rain Farm // OR

Happiness Family Farm // OR

Kasama Farm // OR

Lomita Farm // OR 

Mabuhay Gardens // OR

Mariquita Medicinals // OR

Mora Mora Farm // OR

Mudbone Grown Farm // OR // @mudbonegrown

Raceme Farm Collective // OR // @racemefarmers

Rainshadow Organics // OR

RBG Farm (Red, Black, Green) // OR

Sakari Farm // OR

Scrapberry Farm // OR // @scrapberryfarm

Sitafal Farm // OR

Pennsylvania

Hilltop Urban Gardens // Pittsburg, PA

Mill Creek Farm // PA

Soil Generation // PA

The Philadelphia Urban Creators // PA

Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-op // PA

MycoSymbitics // PA // @mycosymbiote

North Philly Peace Park // PA // @northphillypeacepark

Philly Forests // PA // @phillyforests

Sankofa at Bartram’s Garden // PA // @sankofacommunityfarm

Rhode Island

Movement Ground Farm // RI

Quaintly Farm // RI // @quaintlyfarmri

Natural Creola Farms // RI

South Carolina

Fresh Future Farm // SC // @freshfuturefarm

Morning Glory Homestead // SC // @morninggloryhomestead

Tennessee 

Craft Farms // TN // @craftfarms901

Texas

Bonton Farms // Dallas, TX

Jacob’s Family Farm // TX

Sweetwater Farms // TX

Urban Dallas Farm and Rabbitry // TX // @urbandallasfarm

We Over Me Farm // TX

Virginia

Jones Garden // Staunton, VA

Young Jupiter Market Garden // Harrisonburg, VA

Haynie Farms // VA

Sylvanaqua Farms // Montross, VA // @sylvanaquafarms

Vanguard Ranch Natural Gourmet // Gordonsville, VA

Mighty Thundercloud // Birdsnest, VA // @edibleforest

The Carter Farms // Piedmont, VA // @carterfarmsva

Vermont

Clemmons Family Farm // Charlotte, VT // @clemmonsfarm

ZAFA wines // Isle La Motte, VT // @zafawines

Washington

Clean Greens // WA

Herban Farm // WA // @herbanfarmn

Sky Island Farm // Humptulips, WA // @skyislandfarm

Ebony By Nature // WA // @ebony.by.nature

Lesedi Farm // WA // @lesedifarm20

Log Hollow Farms // WA // @loghollowfarms

Nootka Farm Collective // WA // @nootkafarmcollective

Nurturing Roots Farm // Seattle, WA // @nurturingrootsfarm

Yes Farm // WA // @yesfarmofficial

Cultivate Farms, Carnation, WA // 

Terrabonne Farms, Duvall // WA // 

West Virginia

Creasy Jane’s // Beckley, WV // Herbal Remedies 

Wisconsin

Alice’s Garden Urban Farm // Milwaukee, WI

Love Land Acres Farm // Elkhorn, WI //@lovelandacresfarm

Earth Star Herbals // WI // @alysonsimplygrows

International

Source Farm // Jamaica

Sundance Harvest // Canada // @sundanceharvest

Tuzini Farms // Zambia

Black Creek Community Farm // Canada // @blackcreekcommunityfarm

TBD

Farmer Brown Tha MC // @farmerbrownthamc

Companies

Products

Temptress Truffles by Elan Hagen // OR // Mushroom Products

Bookstores

Mahogany Books // DC // @mahoganybooks

“MahoganyBooks is a local independent bookstore that believes in social entrepreneurship. We take a leadership role in the African American community by promoting reading, writing, and cultural awareness as tools to improve self-esteem, self-love and ultimately our communities to enrich the lives of motivated individuals.”

The Key Bookstore // @keybookstore

“The Key Bookstore is an interactive online bookstore with the mission to encourage the community to bask in the reading culture experience.”

Zawadi Books // NY // 716-903-6740

“Zawadi means “gift” in Swahili, one of the purposes of the products we carry. Our mission is to provide the community with a bookstore that specializes in books and materials that are by and about people of African descent. We sponsor and support author readings, book discussions, book signings, storytelling and other community based activities. Today Zawadi Books is one of America’s longest operated independent-black owned bookstores, with over 40 years in business!”

Restaurants

Apps & External Resources

Black-Owned Restaurant Lists Circulating the Internet, Organized by City by Bon Appétit

“As many of us have been inspired to stand in solidarity with the Black community, so has food media. Across the country, restaurant critics, writers, and local food lovers have been pulling together extensive lists highlighting Black-owned businesses in their respective cities. We wanted to share what they’re creating, from Google spreadsheets with updates on take-out/delivery options and GoFundMe links to websites that have long been celebrating Black-owned businesses and owners. We will continue to update this page as more resources become available, and encourage you to use these resources now, and always. Let us know if you come across anything that would be helpful to add to this growing list by emailing us at staff.bonappetit@gmail.com with the subject line “Black-owned businesses.”

EatOkra App

“EatOkra is your guide to black-owned restaurants. If you’d like to support local black businesses, or maybe just find a new favorite place to eat, download the EatOkra app now.”

Black People Eats

“Black People Eats is a food blog with a new perspective. Our goal is to provide to you the hottest black owned food & beverage companies”

Eat Local First

“Eat Local First is the trusted source for finding local farms and identifying the restaurants, markets, and food businesses that purchase from local food producers.”

Restaurants by State

Red Bay Coffee // Oakland, CA

“Red Bay seeks to create unity by hiring and serving people of all backgrounds, striving to be diverse and inclusive of those who have traditionally been left out of the specialty coffee industry, especially people of color, the formerly incarcerated, women and people with disabilities.”

Baon Kainan // OR  

Matta // OR

Magna Kusina // OR

Allie G’s Pastries  // OR

Kumare // OR

Deadstock Coffee // OR

Favela Cafe  // OR

Bison Cafe // OR

Tambayan // OR

Media

Books

Please consider purchasing from a BIPOC-Owned Bookstores

Agriculture, Gardening, and Farming

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast by Ira Wallace

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Farming While Black by Leah Penniman

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

Freedom’s Gardener by Myra B. Young Armstead

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings

by Mary Siisip Geniusz

The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowens

Black Farmers in America by John Francis Ficara

Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers by Charlene Gilbert

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee

Food Justice

Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy by Alison Hope Alkon

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C by Ashanté M. Reese

Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle by Joshua Sbicca

Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons by Justine M. Williams & Eric Holt-Giménez

More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change by Garrett Broad

Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule by R. Alexander D. Orquiza

Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States – Restoring Cultural Knowledge Protecting Environments and Regaining Health by Devon A. Mihesuah & Elizabeth Hoover 

An Annotated Bibliography of Structural Racism in the Food System by Rachel Kelly, Rich Pirog, Kimberly Carr, Anel Guel, Jane Henderson, Kyeesha Wilcox, Taylor Wimberg, Vanessa García Polanco, Daniel Babayode, Kelsey Watson, and Emettra Nelson

Food Culture & History 

A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen by Malinda Russell

The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty

Black Hunger: Soul Food and America by Doris Witt

Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith A. Carney

Hunger Overcome?: Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by Andrew Warnes

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas by Debra A. Reid

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture by Anne Bower (editor)

Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora by Edda L. Fields-Black

Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food by Andrew Warnes

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society by A. Breeze Harper

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Beth Dooley and Sean Sherman

The Southern Cookbook: A Manual of Cooking and List of Menus by S. Thomas Bivins

African American Food Culture by William Frank Mitchell

Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine by James McCann

Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America by Frederick Douglass Opie

Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 by Rebecca Sharpless

In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris

Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller

To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South – Angela Jill Cooley

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama by Jennifer Jensen Wallach (editor)

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity by Mark S. Warner

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Pete Daniel

Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch

Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions by Elizabeth Pérez

The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller

Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution by Frederick Douglass Opie

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge

Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine by Kelley Fanto Deetz

Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original by Sarah B. Franklin (editor)

Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta by Julian Rankin

Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions by Catherine Keyser

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now by Naa Oyo A. Kwate

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain

The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South (Chapters 5, 12, and 13) by Latshaw, Ferris, and Williams-Forson

My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (Chapter 6: Soul Food) by Daryl Cumber Dance

Film & Videos

Agriculture, Gardening, and Farming

Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty by Leah Penniman

Passport to Black History: Environmentalism in Black Culture; Agricultural Resistance and Reclamation by Dr. Monica White, Leah Penniman, and Chef Thérèse Nelson

What Happened to All the Black Farmers? By NBC Left Field

The underlying racism of America’s food system by Regina Bernard-Carreno, writer and professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, CUNY,  TEDxManhattan, 2014

Black Food Matters: Race and Equity in the Good Food Movement by Devita Davison, Change Food Fest 2016

Can You Dig This by Delila Vallot

Food Culture & History 

Black Culinary History by Michael W. Twitty and Chef Thérèse Nelson

Articles

Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty by Leah Penniman 

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century by Leah Douglas

Resistance by Dãnia C. Davy, Savonala Horne, Tracy Lloyd McCurty, and Edward “Jerry” Pennick

Reclaiming Food Hubs: Food Hubs, Racial Equity, and Self-Determination in the South by Dara Cooper

Other

Seeds And Their People Radio Show

Soul Fire Farm Action Steps & Policy Platform for Food Sovereignty

Map of Reparations for Black-Indigenous Farmers

True Love Seeds

2020 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color led – How To Videos, Gardening Projects, Educational Resources by Soul Fire Farms

Petitions, Grants, & Active Initiatives

California Funding Sources for Small Farmers and Businesses by California Farmer Justice Collaborative – Includes Funding for those impacted by COVID-19 

American Farmland Trust Farmer Relief Fund: Grants for small and mid-sized direct-market producers.

CCOF Foundation Bricmont Hardship Assistance Fund: Grants to USDA certified organic producers who have suffered financial losses due to extreme hardship.

CCOF Foundation Organic Transition Grants: Grants to support farmers transition to USDA Organic production methods.

Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) Emergency Mini-Grants for Livestock and Poultry Farmers: Grants for independent family farm businesses involved in animal husbandry who are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19.

Native American Agricultural Fund: Grants available to eligible recipients in the mission areas of business assistance, agricultural education, technical support and advocacy services; flexibility provided for applicants dealing with hardships due to COVID-19. Two RFAs are currently open: “2020 RFA Process – General” and “2020 RFA Process – Youth.”

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Grants & Opportunities: Grant programs for farm production, food systems development, and businesses in the agricultural sector administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); several grants and opportunities are amended or have extended RFA periods due to COVID-19.

USDA General Funding Opportunities via National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC):

 USDA funding opportunities for 2020 with deadline extensions due to COVID-19.

USDA National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Conservation Stewardship Program (CPS) via NSAC: Payments to farmers and ranchers for actively maintaining, managing, and expanding conservation activities on working farmlands; application deadline extended due to COVID-19.

USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Rapid Response to Novel Coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) Impacts Across Food and Agricultural Systems: Grant support via the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture which includes six priority areas: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities.

USDA Regional Food Systems Partnership (RFSP): Funding program to support partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems; application deadline extended due to COVID-19.

USDA Rural Development COVID-19 Response Resources: USDA Rural Development actions to help rural residents, businesses, and communities, specifically existing loan payment assistance and other relief opportunities, affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

US Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL): Long-term, low-interest loans to small businesses for working capital and loss of revenue due to COVID-19. EIDLs in the CARES Act now include eligibility for farms and agricultural businesses.

US Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program Loan (PPPL): Loans to small businesses to help keep workforces employed during COVID-19. PPPLs in the CARES Act now include eligibility for farms and agricultural businesses. For PPP, businesses need to contact their bank to access funds (rather than applying through the SBA website). CFJC member CA FarmLink is administering PPP loans.

People

Marquetta L. Goodwine (Queen Quet)

Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz

Justin Robinson

Kendrick Ransome

Jamil Burns

Samantha Foxx

Amber Tamm

Cheyenne Sundance

Chaz Daughtry

Gail Taylor

Jamila Norman

Olive Watkins

Dara Cooper

Keisha Cameron

Jillian Hishaw

Savi Horne

Yewande Komolafe

Malik Yakini

Karen Washington

Tanya Fields

Leah Penniman

Chris Newman

Matthew Raiford

Ira Wallace

Chef BJ Dennis

Chef Thérèse Nelson

Tunde Wey

Rowen White

Chef Sean Sherman

Marcia Chatelain

Psyche Williams-Forson

Frederick Douglass Opie

Toni Tipton-Martin

Michael Twitty

Jessica B. Harris

Tonya Hopkins

Adrian Miller

Duron Chavis

Leni Sorensen

Chevonne Ball