Keep checking this page to see upcoming events NESAWG is involved in.
September 2024
NESAWG is collaborating with the National Land Trust Alliance as they come to Providence Sept. 25-28 for the 2024 Land Trust Alliance Rally.
As part of this, NESAWG is hosting a Rhode Island Black History Walking Tour in Providence and Bristol, RI, on Sept. 26.
Examine the crucial role that Rhode Island played in the slave trade and in the birth of today's institutional system. Learn about the resistance of a People, and the structural changes needed for racial equity, justice, land rematriation and food security.
NESAWG is also planning and co-hosting the Indigenous Land Conservation Summit, an indigenous-only affinity gathering for relationship building and knowledge sharing.
The summit will take place on Sept. 25, ahead of the wider conference. For more information or to join the waitlist, email king-cortes@lta.org.
October 2024
Anthony was born in Kenya, and has been living in the United States for thirteen years now. He resides in the small town of Andover, New Hampshire where he owns and runs Two Mountain Farm.
Learn about the real life stories, the challenges and opportunities that refugee and Immigrant farmers face.
Land Access
How do you access farmland to grow your own food on a new land foreign territory with facing language, cultural and systemic barriers? and with no relationships or networks of your own?
Network Building
How do you open doors and pathways into communities that are not open to diversity and inclusion, and with no relationships or networks of your own?
Financing
How do you access financing with no credit history?
Climate
How do you prepare for climate impact and how do you protect your crops with little to no crop insurance protection?
