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Black ✊🏾 Vermicomposter, Urban Ag, Farm2School, Food + Land + Climate Justice 💚connecting & convening Black folks + POCs 🖤 PDX, OR, Multnomah/Chinook

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butch garden (sad September)

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it’s always me trying to keep up with my own self in posting, fotos of summer

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life be going sooooo fast — videos de música en vivo, conviviendo en comunidad, conociendo vistas hermosas este verano

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So much to say & so little time! Grateful for friends who ground me when I get overwhelmed and the lovely humans sharing time, laughter & labor.

Honored to be doing the work to build from the soil up! Enjoy the snapshots of time.. come on out & connect with the land. Its not always about doing work. Take a walk in the fields, feel the winds, watch the grass dance and plant the seed in your mind, body & spirit.

Enjoy the snapshots of dreams in motion ✨️

#farmlife❤️ #landstewardship #buildingcommunity #liberationnation #soulregeneration

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4 cities. 4 gatherings. 10 days. Ya girl is TIYAD. Many thanks to @asalhbhm, @cbcfinc, @savingplaces, & @blackurbangrowers for holding space for us to convene, strategize, and love on each other. When I realized these were all back to back this was my reaction: 😳🫤🙄😲🤬😣😭 I wasn’t sure how I was going to make it, but I knew that I needed to be present. The work we are doing @trustforpublicland is dependent upon community & coalition. In each place there were folks beautifully dedicated to their labor, eager to conspire toward our bright shared future. In hundreds of conversations we embodied each of the principles of the nguzo saba, especially ujima - collective work & responsibility. We are living through trying times, but we can’t get weary in well doing.

This is not a struggle that we win through brute force or the power of our minds alone. The arduous work before us requires an unyielding, unapologetic, and unshakeable revolutionary love. We must love us enough to keep going when all seems lost. We must love us enough to recommit ourselves to study. We must love us enough to organize. We must love us enough to treat one another with care. We must love us enough to not discard each other. We must love us enough to look fear in the face and dismantle it with love. I know it’s easier said than done, but I bear witness that love is keeping me these days.

I got back home just in time to celebrate Jubilee Day at @fiskuniversity. (So 5?) It marks the day the original @fiskjubileesingers left for their first tour. I finally went to @thenmaam to see the Jubilation exhibit and I marveled at their sacrifice. I feel this way about all ancestors whose harvest I reap. I can only imagine the love they must have felt for all of us to do what they did. I pray our efforts multiply benefits for the ones coming behind us.

Sunday we closed out @blackfoodjustice day w/ something I’ve said countless times, but this time I wept because now we are quoting an ancestor and it hit different. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

See you in the whirlwind. 😉😘

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Great gift! 2518 SE 33rd Ave 10am - 6pm
Thirdeyebag.com

Through first-person narratives and arresting photography, this unique gardening book profiles women who demonstrate how a gardening practice has the power to heal, empower, educate, and connect. Thirty-one compelling personal stories about creating backyard, flower, and vegetable gardens, participating in community gardens, and gardening with kids are included. Sidebars offer advice on composting, pest control, must-have tools, greenhouse gardens, and more.

In a beautiful, chunky package that can be read cover to cover or displayed on a coffee table, Black Girls Gardening makes a lovely gift for aspiring and practicing Black women gardeners, first-time homeowners, parents who garden with their kids, and women of all ages who enjoy sinking their hands into the soil.GARDENING AS EMPOWERMENT: With stories on starting a garden from seed, building your own vegetable and flower beds, growing your own food, connecting with a community, and showing your kids the power and joy that come from these experiences, this uplifting book demonstrates how gardening empowers women and green thumbs of all ages and levels.

HEALTH BENEFITS: Gardening is good for you, and it’s a lifelong hobby! Spending time outside is an excellent way to relieve stress and anxiety, and gardening is an accessible and increasingly common pastime that provides respite from our indoor, online, sedentary lives. This book celebrates gardens as a sanctuary, a source of solace and joy, and a place for self-discovery and connection. CELEBRATES DIVERSITY: This uniquely inspiring nature and gardening book highlights stories from Black, biracial, and multiracial women, an underrepresented audience in mainstream gardening, nature, and outdoor media.

Perfect for:
Self-care gift or self-purchase for Black women, ages 18 - 50+ Gift-giving for Mother’s Day, birthday, housewarming, or retirement Women gardeners and aspiring green thumbs Garden admirers and nature enthusiasts First-time homeowners who want to plant a garden Followers of @BlackGirlsGardening Fans of Nature Swagger, Wild at Home, My Beautiful Black Hair, She Explores
#thirdeyebag

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Repost from @upliftic_energy and @danielwgrady the head farmer at @blackfuturesfarm during #PortlandBlackFarmsSolarWeek

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Magnificent!
Repost from @meyermemorialtrust :
Congratulations to the @blackagecosystem (BAE) on securing five acres for the Black Food Hub in Gresham! This is an enormous milestone in the movement of food and land justice.
In Shantae Johnson, executive director of Feed’em Freedom Foundation’s, own words:
“The Black Agricultural Ecosystem (BAE) is the mycelium of Black Food System Curators in the PNW. Our interconnected network sustains and nourishes our local food system. Our Ecosystem includes @feedemfreedomfoundation, @blackoregonlandtrust, mudbonegrown, @blackfoodnw, @blackfoodfund and @blackfuturesfarm.
Our Mycelium bridges, regenerates and encourages growth amongst Black farmers, food system leaders, distributors and cultural stewards in an effort to weave together resources, knowledge and opportunities for collective resilience.
By receiving the Justice Oregon for Black Lives funds from Meyers Memorial Trust, we’ve been given the pleasure of time in nature to reconnect and strategize about where regenerative bridges for food system change needs to happen. We build upon the legacies of Land and Liberation that our farm ancestors have laid down for us. To be of and on the land is Freedom.”
This video was filmed and produced by Faith Briggs and Tracy Nguyen-Chung. Thank you for letting us share your work.
#BlackManGreenPlan©️
#International
#renewableenergy
#energyefficiency
#sustainability
#agrivoltaics
#microgrids
#renewableenergy
#energyefficiency
#sustainability
#environmentaljustice
#climatejustice
#climatesurvival
#theclimate_has_already_changed
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectnature
#protectecosystems
#protectniches
#protectTheOriginalPeople
#protectBlackPeople

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Lately 🤎

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💅🏾THE PICTURE SAYS IT ALL👑

🫵🏿🫵🏿Personally invited a handful of folks to come to tonights prison letter writing event held by @dontshootpdx and @criticalresistancepdx at the Black Gallery tonight. 7-9pm, please wear a 😷, snacks & drinks provided!👊🏿
Hope to meet some new faces and catch up with some friends!!✉️✉️

If i didnt reach out to you heres another chance—>
💌💌Monday December 9th 6:30-8:30pm letter writing to those that are incarcerated @aldercommons hosted by @abcportland MASKS REQUIRED, heres a chance to be proactive in community building & giving those locked up a voice to be heard.📬📬

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Came Thru…..and then some

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@jahquari @madmanpopup @cakenitbetter
@deep.rootz.worms
@peachwood_orchard
@creativeinhabitor @happinessfamilyfarm @koaroots @esoticopasta @kissofpolynesia
@tarahalie @bakednboujeepdx @revolutionoftheheartfarm @smocskincare

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#organic #supportlocal #eatlocal #buylocal #blackpeoplegrow #pdxfarmersmarket #pdxblackexcellence #indigenousmarket
#shopblack #shoplocal #indigenousmakers #supportblackfarmers #blackcreators
#blackfarmers #gayfarmers #queerfarmers #instagood #pdx #oregon #pdxnow #pdxeats #pdxfresh #blackportland #comethrupdx #portlandsbestfarmersmarket #pdxsonlyfarmersmarketforusandbyus #blackjoy

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DM me. 1pm.

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