In Conversation with Leah Penniman - Farming While Black

Jan. 2019 Leah Penniman visited Richmond VA to present at the Virginia Association of Biological Farming. Prior to the conference; community organizers were able to host a dinner for a small room of local food system advocates of color and allies. The result was a beautiful conversation on farming, land, legacy and heritage.

Leah Penniman was raised in Massachusetts and began farming as a teenager when she worked with The Food Project in Boston. Penniman holds an MA in Science Education and BA in Environmental Science and International Development from Clark University. She has been farming since 1996 and teaching since 2002. She has worked at the Food Project, Farm School, Many Hands Organic Farm, Youth Grow and with farmers internationally in Ghana, Haiti, and Mexico. She co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2011 with the mission of ending racism and injustice in the food system and reclaiming the inherent right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system as Black and Brown people.

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