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🌱 It takes a seed to build a nation 🌍
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One year of community, connection and local impact!

DSLBD was proud to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Marion Barry Avenue Market & Café alongside Dreaming Out Loud and the Ward 8 community.

Over the past year, the market has created a space for local farmers, food makers, entrepreneurs and neighbors to come together and thrive. Congratulations to Dreaming Out Loud and all of the partners who helped bring this vision to life and continue investing in DC’s local economy.

Here’s to many more years of growth and success! #smallbizdc

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Plate 3 of The Plant-Based Potluck Meal Prep [PPMP]

RSVP with link in bio 🔗

Our Featured chefs will be
LaTear of @tasteofkingiyanu +
Chef Anisa of @nanas.rooted

We will be announcing the dishes they will be demoing soon 🥘🥗

The Plant-Based Potluck Meal Prep is a community driven gathering where plant-based eaters come together to prepare, share, and celebrate nourishing food. Each participant brings one large plant-based dish to share at the event and to-go containers are provided so everyone can take home meals for the week. The event creates space for meaningful dialogue around food justice, food, access, and community stewardship whether you cook a dish or simply contribute ingredients. Participants are also invited to share the recipe and cultural stories behind their dishes, which will be compiled into a virtual community recipe book after the event.

This is a great opportunity to connect with the plant-based community, chefs who offer their services, local farms, and get inspiration if you are looking for new ways to eat healthier.

Come share space and bring an open mind/belly 🍲 🌱

@earth2melonnation will be providing
melon slices
hosted at @ward8well

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Ever heard of R & R? This September it’s time for S & S because you can Sip for the Soil all month at @metrobardc !

Each sip = a donation to @thegreenscheme ’s DC Water Watchers Program! @DCWATERWATCHERS 💧
🌱 With the Sip for the Soil fundraiser, you can give back to your community and help fund out local youth’s education on urban agriculture and healthy ecosystems!

To learn more about our programming visit www.Greenscheme.org

Enjoy a Metrobar cocktail to donate $1 to The Green Scheme! With every drink you purchase, you can also make a donation of your dollar amount of choice.

If it’s sober September for you, grab a Corner Water and have 50¢ of your purchase head to the same place.

Make like water and join the community cycle.
Every sip counts! ✨

#SipForTheSoil #Thegreenscheme

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planting for shadows

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R&B LANE | 📍Third stop: Marion Barry Avenue Market & Cafe.

@doldc A space rooted in nourishment, empowerment, and connection. That’s a lane I can stay in.

Another lane, another reminder that good company feeds the soul.

Let’s ride. 🏎️💨🤙🏽

📸: @madebystudiog

#femaledj #DC #explorepage

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R&B LANE at Marion Barry Avenue Market & Cafe | Food nourishes the body. Music nourishes the soul. I love when a space understands that community needs both.

At a time when so much of the conversation around food has us thinking more intentionally about what we consume, where it comes from, and who we trust to nourish our communities and bodies, R&B Lane at Marion Barry Avenue Market & Cafe was the perfect fit for this stop.

Support your local producers, @doldc is my favorite! 😍

Let’s ride. 🏎️💨🤙🏽

🎥: @madebystudiog

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Empathy compassion winter is coming up unhoused people need community support #fypシ❤️💞❤️ #communityactivist #unhoused #washingtondc

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VENDOR SPOTLIGHT | MELON NATION 🍉🌱

Meet Melon Nation, a food vendor bringing seeded watermelon, fresh juices, and a whole lot of purpose to the 2026 Black Equestrian Summer Bash!

At the Bash, Melon Nation will have:

🍉 Whole Seeded Watermelons
🍉 Fresh Watermelon Slices
🥤 Juices
💚 Offerings ranging from $1 to $20

But Melon Nation is about much more than watermelon.

Their work is rooted in bringing healthier food options to underserved communities while creating nation-building community experiences. They believe that the seeds we preserve today carry our wisdom, ancestry, biodiversity, and sovereignty forward.

And their message says it all:

“It takes a seed to build a nation.” 🌱

Melon Nation is working to preserve the literal and cultural seeds within our communities, connecting healthier choices with ancestry, self-determination, community, and the future we are building together.

We are excited to have Melon Nation bringing fresh fruit, nourishment, and nation-building energy to the Bash! 🍉🧡💚

🌐 Www.melonnation.earth
📲 Instagram + TikTok: @earth2melonnation

🐎 Register for the Black Equestrian Summer Bash with the link in bio!

Come ride. Come eat. Come plant seeds. Come connect. Come build community! 🍉🌱🧡💚

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We had an amazing time bringing a casual chess tournament to The Well at Oxon Run, a beautiful farm and community wellness space right here in Southeast DC!

Players of all ages came out and enjoyed a couple hours of chess with the community. It was a fun afternoon and we loved seeing so many people come out and play.

Huge shoutout to @earth2melonnation for hosting the event and keeping everyone refreshed with their delicious fresh watermelon slices and juices. We appreciate everyone who came out and helped make the day special.

More chess. More community. More events across DC.

#DCStateChess #SoutheastDC #TheWellAtOxonRun #DCChess #ChessInDC

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The Plant-based Potluck Meal Prep ! Round 2 🌱

Gratitude to our featured chef @the_raw_sage for demoing their raw vegan lasagna recipe 🥬🥕🥒

Many flavors, cultures, and communities were present sharing traditions, recipes, and adaptions. Great dialogue about our journeys, plant-based or not, with our inspirations along the path.

Some recommended food documentaries were
• Dominion
• What the Health
• Cowspiracy
• Forks and Knives

Keep an eye out for our next PPMP in Sept!

until then 🍱

hosted at @ward8well

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#dmvfoodie #dmvnetwork #watermelon red&yellow seeded!!
Shoutout to da 🔌 …keep doin yr thang bro we got movement!! Black brovas feeding the community!!

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On this journey an elder once told me…”You are the medicine” and to be able to have medicines crafted my abuelo’s land be sought after where ever we go is a beautiful feeling. We are stomp kicking through the doors of imposter syndrome as every step we take our DNA is remembering, our tribe is finding each other where not even borders can falter.

@earth2melonnation the tribe of @da_natureguy369 and @indicuttt every time I see them the creator smiles and the enemy shivers. Two sides of the same coin seeing how the work we do for our community is mirroring each other on each side of the puddle. Seeing them in DC was a hug for the soul. I pulled up to deliver SeaMoss and gift medicines and. They pulled me into a tour to talk about our project to the elders they were serving that day. Check their projects out.

@sopofthesoul sheeshhhhh another brother that we spoke life into each other and to see how those from the mud continue to build up instead of get dragged back down. Taking the medicine of soursop and teaching and healing the Philly community one delicious smoothie at a time.

@sanasanamarket Jazz is a soul sister and thank you to Mike for telling her she had to meet me years back. The queen moved heaven and earth to have a market that aligned while we were there to participate and she gave an opportunity to many vendors to connect expand their community.

@brosis512 : I met Ana through other comrades on our farm and she saw something special in our project. She pushed for us to talk to some of the farms in her coalition of @nyclandbasedhealingproject. We chose Nando and Brosis and we were inspired and blown away not knowing how big of a deal being invited was. We thought we were speaking at a small local garden and it happened to be a nonprofit helping elevate thousands of NYC youth.

Thank you to my queen for keeping me grounded through this journey.

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