We the Land!
is an invitation to our community to join us for a weekend of knowledge exchange, grassroots organizing, celebration, and ceremony and marks the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust’s first in-person gathering since 2019 and centers the primary intention of our community-led network:
To Break
the isolation of being farmers of color in the Northeast by building relationships of mutual respect and joy, the foundation of community care, and movement work.
To Envision
enact, and share ways to be in reciprocity with Land, in the process healing generational trauma and redefining the meaning of “farmer” and our care for the land and each other.
To Coordinate
our policy demands and catalyze reparations for Black-Indigenous-POC farmers and land stewards.
To Share
skills, resources, and time with one another in building collaborative projects and initiatives.
We the Land! is intended to call in and connect our mycelial network of Indigenous, Black, and Brown land, food, and climate justice activists, as well as healers, makers, and ceremonial holders.
We the Land! is rooted in NEFOC’s vision to advance land and food sovereignty in the Northeast region through permanent and secure land tenure for PoC farmers and land stewards in a sacred manner that honors our ancestors’ dreams ~ for regenerative farming, human habitat, ceremony, native species ecosystem restoration, and cultural preservation.
Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, our vision
We act for a future of food and land sovereignty in the Northeast region, through permanent and secure land tenure for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian farmers who will relate with the land in a sacred manner that honors our ancestors' dreams – for regenerative farming, sustainable human habitat, ceremony, native ecosystem restoration, climate healing, and cultural preservation.
Our overarching goal is to reshape root causes and systems that marginalize our communities, co-creating a critical mass of self-determined communities generating scalable knowledge together, while synthesizing, sharing, and embodying expressions of land-based solidarity as means of mutual healing and survivance. The core of NEFOC is our Network, an informal alliance of more than 600 Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers and land stewards of color making our lives on land in New England and Upstate New York. Together we collectively envision, enact, and share ways to be in reciprocity with land, in the process healing generational trauma and redefining the meaning of “farmer” and our care for the land and each other.
Our website, illustrations, and designs were made by our friends over at cheeks.studio based out of Kansas City, MO Thanks Chad, KG, & JC!
