Soul Fire Farm
Founded and run by Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black. Its core mission is stated to be an
“Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system.”
Located in Upstate NY, Soul Fire Farm not only provides food for local communities but is actively invested in farming education for Black and Brown people specifically. They offer farming workshops, help create urban gardens in predominantly POC communities, do doorstep delivery as well as CSA-style pickups, offer community farm days, and even have a reparations map on their website. The reparations map highlights individual black and brown operated farming/community garden projects who are in need of land, resources, monetary donations, and workers.
The farming techniques outlined in Farming While Black are also made accessible to anyone who views their website. These practices, built from Afro-Indigenous farming traditions, are focused on regenerative agriculture, meaning that as they grow food from the Earth, they’re adding to the land’s nutrient value and creating healthier ecosystems rather than simply stripping the land of its resources.