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.