Fruit of Soil

Shantae and Art Johnson are two dreamers at the heart of a Black farmer's movement in Oregon working around food sovereignty, land ownership, community healing, and place reclamation. Their plan had been to homestead cooped up in an apartment, they found joy in the friendly competition of trying to best each other at growing window sill vegetables They missed the land, the gardening they’d grown up with and watched their grandmothers do. After years of Art working as a long haul trucker and Shantae for the City as a doula, they decided to quit their jobs. They used their savings to enroll in a farming education program and began to figure out how to get back to the land Together, they're creating a ripple of change in the Black community by growing food, investing in Black farmers, and feeding Black people. Their farms are a new Mecca for Black folks in a city that is still very isolating for many. It's an example of what could be; the fruits of a world Black farmers are reimagining for each other

Director: Faith Briggs Rose

Producer: Tracy Nguyen-Chung

Stage: In Production