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Ecocide and genocide, 500 plus year global colonial projects, create a world on fire, literally and metaphorically.

Economic inequality has already cost the U.S. $23 trillion over the past 30 years and community economics continue to recover from the 22 million jobs lost during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Over 12 million acres of Black land has been stolen in the last century.

Black farmers, and Black-owned farmland, are at a historical low.

In the 1910s, Black farmers made up 15 percent of all farmers, compared to less than one percent today. Based on the 2017 Census of Agriculture, there are approximately 48,000 Black farmers that own 4.7 million acres of farmland in the U.S., about 0.5% of the country’s total.

Of the 3.4 million U.S. "producers”, Black farmers comprise 1.4% of that population.

As a group of mostly young Black farmers, we are a rare existence. To ensure our survival, we are building our own infrastructure, farming systems and economies through Afroecological movement building. The sustainability of Black farming communities is, in part, predicated upon the self-sufficiency that owning the land and owning our labor provides. Thus, we just purchased 24 acres of mostly forested land in Maryland and we are in the process building out the infrastructure needed to create self-determining economies on the land. These economies will be driven by our building of green infrastructure toward increased human and earth health and self-sufficiency, agroecological food production toward food sovereignty, political education toward the creation of a more conscious humanity and creating and securing jobs within our community in the process. We are building power through the methodological affirmation of Afroecology. Afroecology is defined as: