32 min
134) Empowering farmers of color and dismantling racism in the food system with Leah Penniman Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
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Leah Penniman is an educator, farmer, the author of Farming While Black, and food justice activist who currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York—a people-of-color led project that works to dismantle racism in our food system.
On this episode, Leah sheds light on the impact of colonialism on soil health around the world; how the oppression of Black and Indigenous people-of-color in the United States has affected farmland ownership and continued, institutionalized injustice; how we can take action to support racial justice in food production; and more.
Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/134
Support the show: www.greendreamer.com/support
Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast
Leah Penniman is an educator, farmer, the author of Farming While Black, and food justice activist who currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York—a people-of-color led project that works to dismantle racism in our food system.
On this episode, Leah sheds light on the impact of colonialism on soil health around the world; how the oppression of Black and Indigenous people-of-color in the United States has affected farmland ownership and continued, institutionalized injustice; how we can take action to support racial justice in food production; and more.
Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/134
Support the show: www.greendreamer.com/support
Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast
32 min