ill be sharing more of my farm stories & the journey to land access in my first book “Confessions of a Modern Day Black Woman Farmer” coming out this summer!
In the meanwhile, go follow my farm: @dawnlandfarm
things I’ll never forget from 2020 - part 2:
please let us never forget the times where George Floyd’s death (may he rest in peace) & food shortages lead to black farmers, black chefs, black food system workers, black mutual aid initiatives, black land access, and black food sovereignty being centered as a trend.
We are currently existing in an America that is on the totally opposite of this energy and time. Feels like a very harsh whiplash with little space for recovery.
Shoutout to anyone and everyone who is trying to recover from this time of being of trend and then proceeding to non longer being supported after 2020 was over - I know there are lots of us, especially black farmers and black chefs, who went thru this. I see yall and I’m walking with yall.
May our balance and justice be served.
Bless yall +++
Visual aids for those to get them words out ….
As I head into solitude to finish this e book and continue on to write my memoir, these visual aids have helped continue to have faith in my words, in my story, in my writing.
In these collages are my favorite black writing ladies:
Gwendolyn brooks, sista souljah, the infamous and beloved Toni Morrison, Shay Youngblood and Ida B Wells.
All these ladies encourage truth cause they spoke it. What a beautiful medicine for the times.
Keep writing yall, I’m writing with you …
I’m down here in south, in Florida, on my aunties land during this very young spring time and I’ve come to really enjoy and tune into the power & wisdom of Spanish moss.
Being from the north east and my family being based in the north east since the early 1900’s, this being is very new to me and new tool to my floral practice.
After spending many days sitting with the Spanish moss, staring at its different colors, putting its flesh to my ear to hear it, rubbing its rough softness upon me - exchanging skin to skin, the Spanish moss encouraged me to braid it up and it will hold beauty.
I give thanks to the earth who speaks. The flower crown is the result of listening. This is art. This is prayer. This is life.
Bless yall +++
I have been fortunate enough to know land access myself and have witnessed, listened and learned with many other BIPOC Matriarchs on their lands in so called America.
Our truth is all the same:
LAND = COMMUNITY
not digital community. Land requires people who show up *in person* consistently and regardless with creative solutions.
With out this… land cannot be sustained.
