otherGardens

Our first few guest sessions will explore the various cultural, ethical, political, and spiritual aspects of food.
 Fatuma Emmad is an Ethiopian and Yemeni farmer in Denver, Colorado, where she works as the co-founder, executive director, and head farmer of FrontLine Farming, a nonprofit working towards food security, food justice, and ultimately food liberation.

Join us for what is sure to be a wonderful conversation on growing food with diverse growing practices and organizing community and activism around food!

In this gathering, we return to a set of powerful questions shared by Fatuma Emmad—questions that lingered after our last circle and deserve more time. Together, we’ll explore what draws us into practices of nourishment, land-tending, and ecological care. Are we growing food to survive? To reconnect? To repair? To rewild? And how do we know we’re not replicating the very systems we long to transform?

Cameron Terry, an urban farmer in Roanoke, Virginia, will share with us his experience in food sovereignty and the local food organizing space. Cam not only runs Lick Run Farm, but is a founding member of the Southwest Virginia Agrarian Commons, which works towards community held land for regenerative food production and farmer equity. He also organizes farmers markets, farm events, and a farm summer camp for kids in the city.

Food activist and organizer Sam Bliss runs Food Not Cops in Burlington, Vermont. Join us as he discusses the ways we can acquire and relate to food when it’s not purchased, and how he shares and gifts food within his community, whether it’s homegrown, hunted, wild-harvested.