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Farmer of Color Social Zoom
These Zoom calls are monthly times to meet each other, strengthen our network, and get updates from the MFCC Coordination Team and each other. We encourage folks to bring announcements and opportunities to share. This is a farmer and gardener of color space only.
If you're new to these calls, please use the link to register. One time will get you the link for all the Zoom sessions the 2024 year. If you've already registered in 2024, you should receive an email confirmation from Zoom with the link and you can use that same link each month to enter our mtgs. Please email (Zoe@midwestfarmersofcolor.org
REGISTER HERE
Previous Events
Grounding Policy in the Voices of Farmers
Come join us for the Grounding Policy in the Voices of Farmers Saturday, November 2nd from 1:45-3:15pm at the McNamara Alumni Center during the Emerging Farmers Conference. Take a look at the list of public officials that will be in attendance and make your voice heard!
Seeds for the Culture
Midwest Farmers of Color Collective, Plant-Grow-Share, and Ujamaa Farming Cooperative Alliance are collaborating to host hands-on workshops on seed harvesting and community building around our cultural seeds on Saturday, September 14th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 3701 3rd Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55409 (at the site of the old Sabathani Community Garden).
- Fancy Produce Contest
- Stone Soup, bring something for the communal cook!
- Child-friendly
- Food provided
- Translation and other access needs can be accommodated if you let us know soon
- Transportation stipend available for BIPOC growers who live outside of the Twin Cities metro
Reach out to sammie@midwestfarmersofcolor.org with questions or comments.
We will reach out to registered folks in preparation for the day.
REGISTER HERE
Midwest Farmers of Color Collective Logo & Mapping Launch
Welcome to the Midwest Farmers of Color Collective Logo and Mapping Project Launch! Join us for an exciting event where we unveil our new logo and mapping project. This in-person event will be held at 3036 Hennepin Ave S.
Come celebrate with us as we showcase our fresh look and the start of our first directory. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be a part of our milestone moment.
There will be light food, free portraits for farmers of colors and an opportunity to participate in the mapping project (you get a free t-shirt with our new logo as a thank you)! See you there!
Masks advised, we will have extras on site, we also would like to encourage folks to test in advance as well
A little more about the Mapping Project, at the MFCC Collective Convenings in 2022 and 2020, there was a call for an accessible, up-to-date directory of and for farmers of color. The intention of this effort is to support deepening connections, fostering networks of care & safety, and promoting mutually beneficial knowledge and offerings amongst the collective. We were funded by Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) and we jumped right in! Come check out some of our learnings thus far!
Applications for the 2024 Cultivators Fund are now closed.
This year our application window was February 25th - March 12th. We will be funding 45 applicants by random lottery. All grant recipients will receive $500 each.
Now that applications have been collected, we will be approving applications that have met the listed criteria, and we will be using a lottery system for selecting the awardees.
We will make award notices in mid-late March 2024. Awardees will be notified by email and for questions or information please contact Kieran@midwestfarmersofcolor.org
About the Cultivators Fund:
Midwest Farmers of Color are helping heal climate change and food apartheid. When we have emergent needs, we need quick & accessible support. This fund began in 2022 as a way to help support our farmers with critical, early season investments for each year. In 2023 MFCC gave out 19 mini grants, contributing to things like soil improvements, fencing, value added product development, seed purchasing and more.
Seeding our Cultural Foods Seed Gathering & Swap
Please join us for this chance to delve into important culture keeping, technical seed keeping knowledge, seed story sharing & community building with seed keepers! We'll have free seeds & please bring your dried seeds to clean if you can. This is a free event, lunch & snacks will be served. We're so grateful to our partners, Plant Grow Share, Ujamaa Cooperative Farmers Alliance/ Ujamaa Seeds, Project Sweetie Pie and others. RSVP here and see you there!
Emerging Farmer Conference (in person) Nov 3 - 4, 2023
This conference is a great way to meet other farmers of color in the Midwest, see farmer-led workshops, participate in discussions, and learn about resources & opportunities. They have a good amount of farmers of color attend and do a good job of providing interpreting services at the conference.
MFCC is a planning and outreach partner on this conference and will co-host 2 workshops this year: Seed Saving & Seed Swap (Sat 11/4 930am-11am CST) and Grounding Policy in the Voices of Farmers Listening Session (Sat 11/4 330pm-5pm CST)
Register today and hope to see you there!!
Racial Equity in our Farm Bill Advocacy Training Oct 19th 6pm-8pm CST
Join us to online learn more about the largest piece of federal legislation dictating our food and agriculture system and ways to advocate for a more transformative bill that centers racial equity, addresses land access, the climate crisis, includes worker protections, and more!
Simultaneous interpretation will be available! This is a mostly people of color space and an opportunity to practice connecting our experiences with specific policy asks.
Featuring presenters:
Zoe Hollomon, Midwest Farmers of Color
Ricardo Salvador, Union of Concerned Scientists
Vanessa Garcia Polanco, National Young Farmers Coalition
Billy Hackett, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
To Register, visit: bit.ly/46ux60Q