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‘The Seed Was Their Most Precious Legacy’: Why Black Land Matters 
Article Food and Farming
black earth wisdomBlack foodBlack Land Mattersconnecting to the earthfarmworkersFood JusticeFood SystemsLeah PennimanRobert Shetterlywomen farmers

In her essay “Black Land Matters,” Black farmer and food justice activist Leah Penniman tells how the ancestral grandmothers in the Dahomey region of West Africa braided seeds of okra, molokhia, and Levant cotton into their hair before being forced to board transatlantic slave ships. As expert agriculturalists, the seeds and the ecosystemic and... Read More

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