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Soul Fire Farm is committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in our food system.
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Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. We bring diverse communiti

es together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. We are training the next generation of activist-farmers and strengthening the movements for food sovereignty and community self-determination. Our food sovereignty programs reach over 60,000 people each year, including farmer training for Black and Brown growers, reparations and land return initiatives for northeast farmers, food justice workshops for urban youth, home gardens for city-dwellers living under food apartheid, doorstep harvest delivery for food insecure households, and systems and policy education for public decision-makers.

06/01/2026

Medicine Making and Mutual Aid Virtual 3D
Tuesday, July 7 3 PM - 5 PM EDT

Interested in making and sharing herbal medicine?

Join and Ayo .herbalist as we root ourselves in community care and cultural connection in our Medicine Making and Mutual Aid 3D, a virtual offering hosted by Soul Fire Farm.

In honoring our ancestral healing legacies and their connection to liberation, we’ll explore creative ways to make and share accessibly-sourced herbal medicines within our communities.

The 3D series is a multidimensional workshop series designed for B.I.P.O.C. (Black, Indigenous, &/or People of Color) to deepen skills in specific farming and land stewardship practices in a culturally relevant, supportive, and joyful environment.

In this 2-hour workshop, you can expect to:

* explore practical and creative ways to show up for your community and comrades with herbal remedies and information
*learn more about the embodiment of mutualism through an exploration of current and historical models of mutual aid
* collectively brainstorm ideas for herbal distribution and skill-sharing
* strategize around accessibility and sourcing herbal material in a sustainable way
* provide tools and recipes that can support you in practicing hands-on medicine-making skills

More details and registration can be found on our program calendar on our website SoulFireFarm.org (linked in bio)

05/25/2026

What happens when we refuse the gaze that measures us through extraction, conformity, and control? What becomes possible when beauty, gender, and worth are reclaimed through land, memory, and liberation?

On June 2 at 4PM EST, Sovereign returns with “Beyond the Gaze”, a live conversation on Instagram at featuring and land tender Wendy Flores. Together, we’ll explore embodiment, Black futures, and the power of imagining ourselves beyond colonial measure.

Rooted in storytelling, ritual, and Black land futures, Sovereign gathers visionary artists, activists, cultural workers, and land stewards in intimate conversation—creating space for reflection, strategy, and imagination.

The live conversation will later be released as an audio podcast available on all streaming platforms. Hosted by Clara AgborTabi and

05/22/2026

We spent the day building more than a project — we built confidence, connection, and practical skills for collective survival.

This Hands-On Introduction to Carpentry brought together changemakers, farmers, food fighters, and community builders to learn the fundamentals of safe tool use, measuring, fastening, layout, and woodworking through a beginner build project.

Because creating a just and sustainable world takes more than ideas. It takes the ability to build the material conditions our communities need to survive and thrive — food, shelter, trade, medicine, and mutual support.

Grateful for everyone who showed up ready to learn, build, and imagine together.

05/20/2026

Host your event, meeting, or retreat at Soul Fire Farm through our Campus Sharing Program.

From abolition to climate justice, from q***r liberation to food sovereignty, our struggles for a world of dignity, empowerment, and sustainability are intertwined.

Those of us on the front lines of social and environmental change understand the need to periodically step out of our everyday context to rejuvenate, strategize, and connect.

At Soul Fire Farm, we are pleased to offer our campus and farm as a setting for that work, inspiration, and restoration.

Please complete the form on our website at soulfirefarm.org/campus-sharing/ to request use of our space for your organization’s internal gathering or community event.

05/18/2026

16th Annual SOULstice is here! Saturday, June 27-Sunday, June 28 • 5 PM-12 PM

Tickets and details found at soulfirefarm.org/soulstice/

The theme of this year’s gathering, “Our Roots Run Deep,” celebrates our history of survival and overcoming adversity through communal resistance. Together, we will gather to eat, dance, sing, and celebrate our familial roots and the powerful ways we continue to grow. SOULstice will lean deeply into the loving connections we have cultivated over the years with one another, our ancestors, and the Earth. Like the interconnected roots of fungi and trees, we wish to nourish and feed our community with a space for radical joy, reflection, and self love.

Just as our movement is multifaceted, so too are our people. We invite you to dress in clothing that honors your culture, spiritual practice, or whatever makes you feel most represented within our beloved community.
Get ready to dance the night away in a celebration filled with artistry, healing practices, drumming, and soul stirring live performance by Chispa!

05/15/2026

Join us at Soul Fire Farm with Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian and Jonah Vitale - Wolff for a Foraging Workshop!

Join Patty and Jonah at Soul Fire Farm to explore the abundant wild edible plants and mushrooms throughout many different ecosystems. If you are interested in learning about local plants and mushrooms of our springtime landscapes this is for you. We’ll walk thru forests, fields, edges, and disturbed areas with an eye for food and medicine. It’s growing everywhere!!!

Details and registration can be found on the program calendar on our website SoulFireFarm.org (linked in bio)

05/14/2026

Community Work & Learn

May 19 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

05/13/2026

Before anything grows, it takes root.

At Soul Fire Farm, everything begins below the surface—in the living soil that holds memory, in the ancestral knowledge carried through generations, in the relationships that bind land, people, and purpose.

This visual storytelling of our 2025 year reminds us, again and again, that nothing exists in isolation.

Flip through the graphic storytelling of Soul Fire Farm’s year in our stunning 2025 Annual Report on our website SoulFireFarm.org (linked in bio)

05/12/2026

Here’s a revised version that adds context about Leonard Peltier and makes it clearer that you’re helping amplify community support rather than organizing it yourselves:

At a time when the cost of living is so high, many people are turning to gardening to help feed themselves and their families.

We’re helping spread the word about a community effort supporting Leonard Peltier and his garden this growing season.

Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist, elder, and longtime advocate for Native rights, was recently able to return home to his community after spending decades incarcerated. As he continues rebuilding daily life at home, friends, supporters, and community members are coming together to help make sure he has access to fresh food and the ability to garden independently.

Last year, Leonard was fortunate enough to have his garden tilled, but unfortunately he did not have the support needed to properly maintain it.

This year is different.

Because diabetes has severely affected his eyesight, it is difficult for him to see long distances, so raised planter boxes and porch gardening are especially important. Having plants closer to him will make it much easier for him to continue growing food independently.

Support is already coming together in a beautiful way. Friends and supporters from many places are traveling to help plant and care for the garden, and Turtle Mountain Community College will also be sending students to assist with maintaining it.

What Leonard still needs are supplies — specifically planter boxes, soil, and gardening materials. To help cover these costs, supporters are asking for gift cards from Menards or Walmart.

Any contribution toward Leonard’s food sovereignty and independence would be deeply appreciated.

Gift cards can be mailed to:

Leonard Peltier
PO Box 760
Belcourt, ND 58316

Thank you for supporting this community effort.

*Photo by Angel White Eyes for NDN Collective*

04/29/2026

Immigration shapes where we can stand, how we move, and where we call home.

Between Borders and Belonging: In this episode, we’re sitting with two visionary voices rooted in Nigeria , living across borders to explore immigration as both survival and rupture— and what it means to be in right relationship with the lands we now inhabit.

No resolution. Just staying with the tension.

Join us for the live recording of this conversation on May 5th at 1pm on IG Live

Sovereign podcast hosted by Clara AgborTabi and This episode will later be shared on all podcast streaming platforms.

Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian writer and artist whose work moves across boundaries of form, identity, and belonging. Rooted in Igbo cosmology and shaped by life between Nigeria and the diaspora, their writing explores embodiment, migration, memory, and the ongoing negotiation of self within and beyond imposed borders. Through acclaimed books including Freshwater and Dear Senthuran, Emezi invites us to reconsider what it means to exist, to belong, and to be in relationship—with land, with spirit, and with one another.

Susuyu Lassa, Partnerships Manager at Soul Fire Farm. Susuyu is a q***r, Nigerian creative at heart, stewarding relationships with land and fellow land stewards to transform our food system. They represent the work of Soul Fire Farm in key ecological justice movement spaces, mobilizing and organizing with various stakeholders across our food system to bring about systems and grassroots level change. Their labor is undergirded by the deep conviction that every single life is sacred, and when we work together we are resourced enough to choose interdependence and self-determination in defense of the sacred.

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