Sustainability Spotlight | Soul Fire Farm

Welcome to Sustainability Spotlight, a new feature of awesome organizations, businesses and other creators doing it right! This week I’m so excited to tell you about Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg, NY. They offer many programs that reach more than 10,000 people a 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.

Soul Fire Farm is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. 

Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC*-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice 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 communities 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.

*BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

Farm Practices

We use Afro-indigenous agroforestry, silvopasture, wildcrafting, polyculture, and spiritual farming practices to regenerate 80 acres of mountainside land, producing fruits, plant medicine, pasture-raised livestock, honey, mushrooms, vegetables, and preserves for community provisioning, with the majority of the harvest provided to people living under food apartheid or impacted by state violence. Our ancestral farming practices increase topsoil depth, sequester soil carbon, and increase biodiversity. The buildings on the farm are hand-constructed, using local wood, adobe, straw bales, solar heat, and reclaimed materials.

Solidarity Shares

Soul Fire Farm provides no cost doorstep delivery of vegetables, fruits, medicine, eggs, and value-add products to people living under food apartheid in the Albany-Troy area. We also provide free and low cost bulk products to community groups working on the frontlines.

Learn more at soulfirefarm.org

Thank you Soul Fire Farm for your integrity and inspiration.