“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ~ Audre Lorde Shot from Taina Asili’s music documentary. “A big part of…
Love Notes – 2018 Annual Report, new job posting, and BIPOC FIRE applications are open!
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… We aren’t going to have…
Love Notes – Winter Rest, Reflections, and Reparation Map Victories
“The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and bird songs. By a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to provide…
Love Notes – Farming While Black, BUGS, Sovereignty and Solidarity
“I often feel disconnected from nature in my day-to-day life. As I prepare and eat the amazing food; drink in the beautiful photographs; read the inspiring, educational and uplifting writings, Soul Fire Farm Share membership has nourished me body, mind…
LOVE NOTES – Spanish Immersion, NEFOC, Agroecology Encounter
“We can — we must — hope for a better world, because a better world IS possible! So, it’s left to us to continue struggling in that same spirit, for a world where poor people, people without a voice, demand…
LOVE NOTES – Builder’s Immersion, Harriet’s Apothecary, and fall beginnings
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” Harriet Tubman Photo from Harriet’s…
“Buy a Chicken for Your Neighbor”
At Soul Fire Farm we are committed to increasing the access people affected by food apartheid have to fresh, nutritious food as one way we combat oppression in the food system. Most of the meat accessible to low-income people and…
Love Notes – Lots of youthful energy at BLFI & BLYI
“Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.” Audre Lorde Olamina planting…
LOVE NOTES – BLFI, SOULstice, Seedkeeping, Black Land and Power Summit
“The Three Sisters offer us a new metaphor for an emerging relationship between indigenous knowledge and Western science, both of which are rooted in the earth. I think of the corn as traditional ecological knowledge, the physical and spiritual framework…
LOVE NOTES – Emet’s Bar Mitzvah, Farm Developments, and Land Sovereignty Work
“The plant people have taught me to be generous and not be shy about blossoming, that it is our nature. I think when others see us, it can inspire them to open up and blossom too and we can be…