“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,…
LOVE NOTES – Spring, Loss, Love, and Community
“Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. Therefore, connecting people and the landscape is as essential as reestablishing proper hydrology or cleaning up contaminants.…
LOVE NOTES – Herman Bell, POC Land Trust, and Guinea Hens
“Abolition requires that we change one thing – which is everything, everything. So when one says ‘prison abolition’ one cannot only be talking about prison, that doesn’t mean anything. Abolition is not absence, it is presence. And indeed what the…
LOVE NOTES – Builders Immersion, Reparations Map, and Solidarity CSA Guide!
Pardon me, if when I want to tell the story of my life it’s the land I talk about. This is the land. It grows in your blood and you grow. If it dies in your blood you die out. –Pablo Neruda What…
Soup Joumou
Soup Joumou is the soup of Independence, the soup of remembrance, and the soup that celebrates the new year. The soul-warming dish commemorates January 1, 1804, the date of Haiti’s liberation from France. The soup was once a delicacy reserved…
LOVE NOTES – Joyous MLK Day, and Registration OPEN for 2018 Immersions, Farm Share, and more!
“At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress, our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that it was…
Soul on Fire Hot Sauce!
Ingredients To Make 4.5 Quarts: 120 oz chilies* 80 cloves garlic 3.3 tbsp salt 1.75 cup sugar 1.75 cup vinegar To Make 1 Quart: 36 oz chilies* 24 cloves garlic 1 tbsp salt 9 tbsp sugar 9 tbsp vinegar *We…
LOVE NOTES – Reflections on a Year of Magic, Growth, and Impact
SOUL FIRE FARM FAMILY NEWSLETTER 2017 And what is it to work with love? It is to sow seeds with tenderness And reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. ~Rumi c.1248…
LOVE NOTES – miracle veggies, Van Jones kind words, and coming alive!
LOVE NOTES NOVEMBER 2017 Harvest Gratitude The people of color caucus of our 1st ever multiracial Uprooting Racism in the Food System Immersion, discusses identity and belonging while giving love to the turnips. ~Oct 2017. As the frost bites…
Love Splash – October 2017
Love Splash A Quick Autumn Update from Soul Fire Farm Soul Fire Farm is hiring for 2018. Please consider joining our farm team. Apply here. We are offering free youth and community educational programs in the Capital District this winter.…