WEIVER NI RAEY A
2019 Mural Credit: Biko House Co-op, UCSB
WE STARTED 2019 WITHÂ
a bold new vision
to build a cooperative food economy, powered by the visionary leadership of young people of color
leadership of folx like...
AMY + MADDOX from Bronx, NY
Maddox
Amy
worker-owners of OurTurnatives, an herbal bodega that teaches and creates herbal medicine for displaced and diasporic communities of color
NIGEL from Atlanta, GA
a founding worker-owner of Pecan Milk Co-op, a Black, queer and trans-led co-op that promotes racial justice and veganism
Chelsea
Nat
NAT + CHELSEA from Montreal, Quebec in Canada
alumni of the Midnight Kitchen Collective at McGill University, serving vegan meals to students while building BIPOC solidarity
We built ancestral altars, gathered around them, and told our stories at the Summer Co-op Academy.
I developed tools to help people understand the role of relationships in reimagining racial justice practice.
KRISS from Baltimore, MD
We celebrated Black Southern genius with this year's Racial Justice Fellows.
I collected southern Black oral hxstories about landbased resistance and built the Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm.
DALLAS from Rocky Mount, NC
21388 PEOPLE REACHED + SERVED BY THE BIPOC COOPERATORS WE PARTNERED WITH THIS YEAR
435 HOURS OF TRAINING + TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GIVEN TO BIPOC COOPERATORS IN FOOD + FARMING
89.6% OF ALL PROGRAM-RELATED CONTRACTS, WORTH $16,959, WENT TO BLACK-OWNED CO-OPS + BUSINESSES, MOSTLY IN THE SOUTH
$12701
AWARDED TO YOUNG COOPERATORS OF COLOR FOR FELLOWSHIPS + SCHOLARSHIPS TO SUPPORT THEIR LEADERSHIP
And we envisioned new ways to build POWER in 2020.
FIREWEED
is our new arts + culture organizing universe, where artists, healers and creatives of color are supported to shift dominant narratives in food and farming, especially with respect to intersectional equity and whose lives and voices matter.
CROP Fund
will provide capital to BIPOC-owned co-ops across food and farming and invest in regenerative alternatives to an extractive food system. CROP stands for Co-ops Raising Our Power and can help heal our relationships to the earth and each other.
political
P O W E R
cultural
is a national network of cooperators of color building power to transform food and farming -inspired by mycelium, nature's own underground fungal network that plants use to communicate and share resources.
economic
myceliYUM
Thank you from the CoFED Team!