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Originally Published: January 2021 For this month’s S.W.A.G. spotlight we want to shed light on the work of Atiya Wells and Jordan Bethea of BLISS Meadows. Wells the Founder and… Continue reading SWAG: BLISS Meadows

Originally published August 2021. If you attended last month’s Grand Harvest Rally there’s a good chance that you saw the gentlemen in the photograph above. They were in attendance in… Continue reading SWAG: Poppleton Land Against Eminent Domain

Originally published: March 2021 For this month’s S.W.A.G. spotlight we want to highlight Rodette Jones, Farm Manager of the Filbert Street Garden in South Baltimore. It’s not often that one goes… Continue reading SWAG: Rodette Jones

The Need for Transformation   Baltimore City has a population of 620,961 people. 25% (or 155,240 people) of residents are food insecure, also identified as living in so-called food deserts… Continue reading Our Position

Originally published in our February 2021 Newsletter For this month’s S.W.A.G. spotlight we want to highlight the efforts of Dr. Gail Myers, Dr. Sakile Camara and Mama Ethel Jemila in… Continue reading Farmer Xchange Spotlight

Originally published in our April 2021 newsletter For this month’s S.W.A.G. spotlight we will be highlighting Crystal Forman. Crystal is the owner, founder and educator at Holistic Wellness and Health.… Continue reading Crystal Forman Holistic Wellness and Health

(Essay #1) Submitted by: Eric Jackson, Servant-Director, Black Yield Institute (Baltimore) Baltimore has the data that points to institutional, systemic and structural racism and other constructs of domination/oppression. Somehow, the… Continue reading Black Food Sovereignty for Baltimore’s Black Food Problems