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Ag + Local Food News with a dose of Black Joy & Love  Family Farm @thisisgoodground
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No Risk, No Story taken in Brooklyn, New York by @itsonwithdevonne

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2 years ago

Celebrating our roots through the harvests of our labor, cultivating a sense of belonging and creating local, sustainable, cultural, nutritious food systems.

I woke up reminiscing about my church’s Neighborhood Fest on Saturday, September 7th where I shared herbs, fruits and vegetables from the garden myself and @nehemoyia started at Bethany Baptist Church in Bedford Stuyvesant @bethanybrooklyn. It’s so important for churches to expand their ministries to the land and to the streets where people need us the most.

It was such a pleasure to share, teach and empower the community to try something new and to see how many people were excited and shocked about all the Callaloo growing in Bed Stuy! 😍🌱💚

#CommunityGarden #ChurchGarden #Brooklyn #BethanyBaptistChurch #GrowYourOwnFood #whyhunger taken in Bedford Styvesant, Brooklyn by @itsonwithdevonne

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2 years ago

In the jungle of Tulum you find peace, you find you.

@nuuly x @nerea_tulum by @itsonwithdevonne

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2 years ago

Congratulations to DeVonne, our Director of Partnerships and Comms on opening the Food Tank Climate Week NYC events alongside other farmers for a multimedia performance and panel with @foodtank and @wholefoods. Her work with @thisisgoodground continues to inspire us!

Specials thank you and mentions to FoodTank Cofounders Bernie and Dani, Film Director Haven, Michelle Hughes, Executive Director, National Young Farmers Coalition @hughesonpaper , Caitlin Leibert, Global Head of Sustainability, Amazon Grocery and Whole Foods Market and Olivia from American Farmland Trust @americanfarmlandtrust taken in Green Space by @itsonwithdevonne

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13 days ago

Sunday Lunch: To be the callaloo Farmer on a stage surrounded by award winning storytellers and chefs called to Caribbean food knowledge, ingredients and a return to ancestral culinary techniques as their medium…what a rich dream turned reality tun BIG FLEX!

We love Afro, Indo, Asian Caribbean food but many threats affect caribbean foodways like climate disasters, glocal logistical/ financial barriers, AND many are unaware 60%- 90% of the food in the Caribbean is imported. (sidenote: American food on a island resort irks me)

How will our foods survive if the farmers, crops, healing knowledge, recipes, restaurants no longer exist?

whose job it is to preserve it, to innovate/reinterpret it?

Festival @bklyncbeanlitfest
Moderator, Storyteller and friend in my head @stephanieramlogan
Chef @marie_mitchell_
Chef @cheffowles
Author @withbrigid

Great panel, great minds,excited for us to get together again! taken in The Center for Fiction by @itsonwithdevonne

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21 days ago

“System change is not abstract. We’re actually doing it in real time — making history in real time, even if it’s just one person at a time.” — DeVonne Jackson Perez @itsonwithdevonne @thisisgoodground

Find EA198 on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or Simplecast 🎙️🎧 by @itsonwithdevonne

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“Our identities as Black women manifest far beyond our queerness, but holistically, we know our relationship to land serves as a vital reminder that unity is not uniformity. Mother Nature understands that life thrives because of our beautiful differences. Yet the agricultural and environmental sectors have historically operated through a singular white, male, heteronormative lens.

When the gatekeepers of land, funding, distribution, regulation and agricultural education all look and think the same, we forget that it takes a multitude to sustain life. And that the earth proclaims multiplicity.”

DeVonne and Nehemoyia are the hearts and hands behind Good Ground Farm: a family-owned farm on 17 acres in Argyle, New York, cultivating specialty crops for African American and Afro-Caribbean communities.

For @itsonwithdevonne, an Afro Queeribbean food systems leader and storyteller, land stewardship is about sacred connection: to food, family, ancestral memory, and to the narratives that deserve to be preserved. Raised by parents and grandparents who grew crops from their home islands in urban spaces, DeVonne carries forward a legacy of feeding community with gratitude and intention.

@nehemoyia, a reverend and social entrepreneur, sees the soil as spiritual. Her earliest memories of growing food (strawberries with her aunt, peas with her great-grandmother, apples straight from the tree) continue to shape the way she understands tending as a practice of purpose and transformation.

@thisisgoodground began in 2021 as a response to the pandemic, when food costs were rising and access was increasingly uncertain. They started designing grow spaces in underutilized home areas. Now they have a farm dedicated to crops like callaloo, which are often unavailable to New York’s African American and Afro-Caribbean communities.

“Mother Nature never asks a forest to be like a river.”

#QueerFarmers #BlackFarmers #AfroCaribbean #FoodSovereignty #QueerGrower by @itsonwithdevonne

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4 months ago

EA198: Good Ground: Roots & Revolution with DeVonne Jackson Perez
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My conversation with DeVonne Jackson Perez (@itsonwithdevonne ) of Good Ground Farm (@thisisgoodground ) went everywhere — and I mean that in the best possible way!

She started with an illegal fire escape garden in Brooklyn during the pandemic and is now stewarding 17 acres of land in upstate New York with her family — growing callaloo, heritage peppers, pink eye beans and Afro-Caribbean crops that remain largely inaccessible to her community in Brooklyn.

We talked about the Right to Farm law protecting Good Ground’s land in Argyle, New York — and the contradiction DeVonne couldn’t shake: a right to farm on paper means very little if the land itself is unaffordable and inaccessible to the people who need it most. We also got into what soil teaches us about reciprocity, the deep lack of diversity across the food supply chain, and why right now is the most important moment for Black and queer farmers to get on the land.

And she said something I keep coming back to: “We’re not just growing callaloo and peppers and herbs. We’re growing repair.” 🖤

Link in bio to listen to full episode— also streaming on Simplecast, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 🎙️ by @itsonwithdevonne

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2 months ago

As a Black farmer, there’s nothing more powerful than having your vision invested in.

Honored to be selected as a Seeding Power Fellow, an investment in the work of advancing food justice, food sovereignty, and Black land stewardship through This Is Good Ground.

Cheers to the future we’re growing. 🌱🤎

#SeedingPower #ThisIsGoodGround #FoodJustice #FoodSovereignty #BlackFarmers by @itsonwithdevonne

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2 months ago

When your fren has a farm next door to yours and your cousin funds farms and all your farm friends roadtrip to Argyle, NY for a workday!

Working alongside other Black growers on the land feels like a dream, like sovereignty personified, growing something rooted in us, for us. Shoutout to Ashanti Williams Founder of @theblackyardfarm and my cousin Olivia Watkins, Founder of @blackfarmerfund for this wonderful event. by @itsonwithdevonne

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4 months ago

Laying with nature processing processed foods, noticing how nutritional value is so far removed from the process due to profit that it no longer feels like part of the process of eating and asking at what point did our health stop being part of the process?

The Truth: Most foods are processed in some way but not all foods are processed heavily or artificially so read your labels, buy local and stay curious. taken in Argyle, New York by @itsonwithdevonne

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5 months ago

POV: a Black woman in food surrounded by Black women in food who get it, live it, and are building it… truly a room like none other! We literally set the place on fire (iykyk😆🔥)

And found time to link up with my girls at for a 17 course Omakase. This Black womans loves food lol taken in Capital Turnaround by @itsonwithdevonne

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