Tiffany LaShae (she/her) is a farmer, educator, activist and most recently – a beekeeper. Tiffany spends half the year growing food in the Midwest and the other half working in rural villages throughout Africa. Tiffany has a diverse background in food justice, regenerative ag, afroecology, agroecology, ‘permaculture’ & more. While farming with women in Mozambique, Malawi, Ethiopia & Ghana, Tiffany began working to undo the damaged health of communities and their ecosystems caused by commercial agro businesses and corrupt seed companies. This year she is working to create a African seed rematriation project – advocating food/seed sovereignty and returning indigenous seed to their mothers. Tiffany is currently fighting food apartheid and excessively weedy fields at a 5 acre urban farm in Frogtown (St Paul), Minnesota. She’s taking this time in an urban setting to become more involved in climate change & urban resilience strategy, local level policy & farm to school education. “To free ourselves, we must feed ourselves.”