Earth Medicine Farms

06/13/2026

First Abraham Lincoln tomato of the season

06/12/2026

Even though there’s a drought, the first tomato has appeared.

06/05/2026

06/04/2026

We’re planting herbs & it’s Gemini Season! Here are some herbs ruled by Gemini

06/02/2026

Food Sovereignty & Justice

The sale of a community garden in the 7th Ward has drawn widening public scrutiny, renewing criticisms of a state representative whose real estate firm handled the deal.

A group of residents who've tended to the garden had made several attempts to buy the lot. It's now been sold for less than the group was offering, prompting calls to halt the deal and a review by Mayor Helena Moreno’s office.

Read more at the link in the comments ⬇️

05/31/2026

The Garden Is a Ledger
Black urban farming isn’t a lifestyle trend. It’s an accounting of stolen land, withheld credit, and communities rebuilding wealth from the soil up.

In American cities, you can still find the old logic of abandonment written in the landscape. There are blocks where the streetlights work but the supermarkets don’t. Where liquor stores glow at the corners and the nearest produce looks like a rumor. Where vacant land, instead of being a civic wound, becomes a kind of invitation: a place where anything can happen because nothing is being protected.
Black urban farming begins in that gap—between what a neighborhood needs and what the market is willing to supply. But the practice is not new, and it is not merely about food. It is an inheritance of rural skill carried into the city through forced migration and economic necessity; a political response to segregation, disinvestment, and unequal health outcomes; and, increasingly, a contest over land tenure in neighborhoods that become “valuable” only after residents have made them livable.

To understand the significance of Black American urban farmers, you have to hold two stories at once. One is intimate and practical: grandparents teaching children to pinch tomato suckers and read weather, the quiet pride of a corner-lot garden that turns into dinner. The other is structural and national: the long, documented history of Black land loss and exclusion from agricultural credit and support, and the way those forces echo inside cities as food access, public health, and zoning policy. The garden is never just a garden; it is a civic argument, made in compost and labor.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/03/05/the-garden-is-a-ledger/

05/31/2026

The men, women and children who worked rice fields often did so by putting their lives in peril. Working in swamps, they were prone to malaria and other insect-related diseases, snake bites and fatal attacks by alligators. Jonathan Green is the founder of The Lowcountry Rice Culture Project. The Gullah artist has been tirelessly re-telling and re-imagining an inclusive story of South Carolina’s rice culture to help people understand the complexities of African American’s relationship to rice. Members of his family were independent rice farmers after emancipation. Read more: https://bit.ly/BSBRiceCulture [Art by Jonathan Green]

05/25/2026

Reclaiming our stories & honoring our ancestors to Protect our Future

05/22/2026