Fannie Lou Hamer: Visionary Farming Model Creator

Fannie Lou Hamer has left us a clear and usable model for cooperative farming, and her lifetime of justice work and public service should be a beacon and inspiration to coming generations.

George Washington Carver, the Father of Sustainable Agriculture

As the first Black man to earn a graduate degree in agriculture in the U.S. (and the first black student at Iowa State), Carver was offered many teaching positions upon graduation, but he chose to join Booker T. Washington in opening the Agricultural school at Tuskagee University in Alabama. On his way from Iowa to his new post in Alabama, Carver recalled, "Everything looked hungry: the land, the cotton, the cattle, and the people.”

The Godfather of CSA, Dr. Booker T. Whatley

Growing Community Series - Pinehurst Farmers Market

Inspired by legendary farmer Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm located in Upstate New York at a BUGS (Black Urban Garden Society conference in Atlanta, Georgia) to be the change she was looking for in her Pinehurst Community. “If you are looking for someone to save you, no one is coming. You will have to save yourself,” Says Penniman.