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 Bethea the Farm Manager were kind enough sit down with us to speak on what’s going on over at BLISS. BLISS Meadows is an initiative… 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 solidarity with BYI’s land issues and to spread awareness for a block party that would be taking place the following weekend in the Southwest Baltimore… 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 from Police Dispatcher, to running a garden in the community but that is exactly what happened. Ms. Rodette’s involvement with the garden began as a… 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 by the 2015 Baltimore City’s Food Environment Report. People of African Descent constitute 63.8% (or 396,173 people) of populus, according to BNIA. Though Black peoples… 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 their creation of Farmers Xchange, a platform dedicated to serving the needs and strengthening the networks of local farmers. The seeds of Farmers Xchange were… 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. This is a service specializing in plant based foods and meditation to help people have healthier and more vibrant lives. At the root of this… 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 discourse is not producing pragmatic solutions to addressing what the “experts” call food deserts. Food access (and the lack thereof) is a symptom not the… Continue reading Black Food Sovereignty for Baltimore’s Black Food Problems