Essays

At Feed Black Futures our mission is to nourish communities, advance climate resilience, and build black food economies as a means of addressing historical harms caused by incarceration and land dispossession.

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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: eat this. 

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Getting to know the movement: Food Sovereignty

Food sovereignty efforts feed the revolution and lead from the heart. 

Impactful work from organizations and communities, like our own and our partners and comrades, seeks to:

  • Ensure food security

  • Promote self determination, social equity, and ecological sustainability 

  • Heal our communities and provide nourishment for our health

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