Feed Black Futures is a Black, queer- led organization committed to food justice, sovereignty, and healing within our communities through a Just Transitions framework.
At Feed Black Futures, we cultivate Black food economies and food sovereignty by facilitating healing and addressing historical harms due to incarceration, land dispossession, and ecological disruption.
This looks like equipping Black and Brown people through
Collective governance capacity building
Political education
Land stewardship
Cooperative Leadership.
Our goal is to activate our communities to reclaim their right to healthy, culturally relevant food and own their power in shaping a future where everyone has access to land and food that sustains both body and spirit.
Our Impact
Food Box Deliveries
weekly and bi-weekly deliveries of culturally relevant, nutritious food boxes to over 198 Black people
Black-owned farming operations
in investment in Alameda, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Sacramento Counties
Food Justice Trainees
community members trained on Food Justice
Our Stories
Storytelling is a vital part of Black liberation and self-determination. Through narrative, we shift the dominant lens, uplift Black joy, and reclaim our power to define our own futures. Our stories reflect the heart of our movement—sharing what’s happening in our organization, offering ways to get involved, and publishing essays and reflections that ground us in the world we’re building together.
News and Features
Food Sovereignty and Collective Power (w/Ali Anderson)
Food sovereignty is concerned not only with access to food, but also with community power, economic self-determination, and efforts to address historical harms. Ali Anderson, Founder and Co-Executive Director of Feed Black Futures, joins Erin Axelrod to explore how food sovereignty can address the harms of incarceration and land dispossession. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in public health, birth work, and food justice, Ali shares how her path from doula work to farming led to the creation of Feed Black Futures.
Essay Announcement
Seed to Skillet: Let Your Food be Your Medicine
SHE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD, SOMEWHERE IN SACRAMENTO, PLACED WITH A FOSTER FAMILY SHE DIDN’T KNOW. But there was a garden. Giant tomatoes. Potato bugs she’d never seen before. Somebody handed her something fresh from the ground and said…
Join Our Team
We’re hiring
We have exciting 2 roles opening up. Storytelling & Communications Manager and Program Director. If you’re interested read through the job descripton and please apply.
News & Features
From left to right: Masika, Salem, Jawno, Ali, Kat, Kyndelle, Maazi, Becca, Rosita, Sade, Tiffani, Jamie, Jeneba, Sophi
Learn more about our people here!
Support our Work
Feed Our Future
Your contribution will allow Feed Black Futures to continue providing vital resources to our community.
Mutual Aid Fund
Support our member-managed mutual aid fund.
Thank you to the fundIng partners who make our work possible!
