Focus Areas

BUILDING THE BIGGER WE Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@melissaaskew?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Melissa Askew</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/wheat-field-y4xZxzN754M?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>

Weaving the fabric to build local and regional power

  • Conference Partnerships
  • Community Gatherings
  • Farmers Circles
  • Regional and Place-Based Working Groups
  • MapJam
  • Partnerships and Collaborations; collaborate to co-liberate

 


 

BUILDING THE NEW  Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Building a model that is regenerative, scalable, replicable, healing, equitable, and sustainable to ensure Food Sovereignty & Food Security; a farm and food systems change rooted in love.

  • Effecting a racial equity transformation of the farm and food system in the Northeast Region
  • Transitioning from an extractive to a regenerative economy
    • Just Transition Strategies
    • Supporting a Solidarity Economy
    • Mutual Aid
  • Centering Voices of Color and Leadership of Color
  • Lifting Native Ancestral wisdom 
  • Education
    • Sankofa Series
    • Popular Education for Grassroots Organizing
    • Technology for Grassroots Organizing
    • Technical Assistance & Support
  • Working Groups; Leadership Development

 


 

STOPPING THE BAD

 

As we build the new, we inherently stop the bad.

  • Analyzing & Shifting Power Structures
  • Land Tenure; Succession Planning; Land Rematriation

 

 

 


 

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE

Changing the collective perception and understanding; telling the true history and story of our People of Color

  • Shifting culture and world view
  • Sharing our culture, roots, identities, traditions & history
  • Storytelling & Storymaking 
    • Stories from our Kitchen Table
    • Stories from the Field
  • Blogs & Vlogs; spotlights

 


 

CHANGING THE RULES

  • Policy Advocacy (Federal, regional, state levels)
    • Mother Earth Rights & Grandfather Ocean Rights: Personhood Status
    • Farm Bill
    • Right To Food
    • Regional & State Strategies and Plans

 

  


 

MOVING THE MONEY

Moving the money from corporate wealth to community wealth

  • Co-op Business Development
  • Resourcing the Movement