The Black Church Food Security Network works to connect Black communities and other urban communities of color with Black farmers in hopes of advancing food and land sovereignty. You can read more about their work here.
The Black Dirt Farm Collective is a collective of Black farmers, educators, scientists, agrarians, seed keepers, organizers, and researchers guiding a political education process.
The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers Cooperative of Pittsburgh works with Black communities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to grow food and to share Black cultural traditions through a farm, youth program, and policy work. Read more about their work here.
Black Urban Growers, founded in 2010, is committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, they nurture collective Black leadership to support Black agrarianism and reimagine Black futures. Based in New York City, their annual conference gains national attendance.
A two-year fellowship for diverse leaders working for a racially just food system in any of the areas of health, environment, agriculture, regional economies, or community development. Read more here.
CoFED is a queer and transgender people of color-led organization that partners with young folks of color to build food and land co-ops.
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund is a non-profit cooperative association of Black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives, with a primary membership base in the Southern States.
The Food Chain Workers Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. Read more here.
Food First works to end the injustices that cause hunger through research, education, and action.
HEAL Food Alliance brings together groups from various sectors of movements for food and farm justice to grow community power, develop political leadership, and expose and limit corporate control of the food system. Read more here.
The National Black Farmers Association is a non-profit organization representing African American farmers and their families in the United States.
The National Black Food and Justice Alliance organizes for Black food and land by increasing the visibility of visionary Black leadership, advancing Black people’s struggle for just and sustainable communities, and building power in our food systems and land stewardship. Read more here.
The Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust advances land sovereignty in the Northeast through permanent and secure land tenure for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian farmers and land stewards.
Minority Landowner partners with clients to design and deliver farmer and landowner workshops to improve outreach to socially disadvantaged and underserved producers. They desire to increase the understanding of and participation in available programs and services.
Minority Landowner offers several services, including the Farm Turnaround Team, who will meet at the kitchen table with family farm enterprises to help identify and correct deficiencies and inefficiencies in their land management operation and provide short-term and long-term strategies for turning things around.
The Organic Trade Association is a membership-based business association for organic agriculture and products in North America. OTA represents over 9,500 organic businesses across 50 states. Its members include growers, shippers, processors, certifiers, farmers’ associations, distributors, importers, exporters, consultants, retailers, and others.
The Organic Trade Association’s new Small Business Access (SBA) Program removes the financial and technical barriers that keep under-resourced producers and brands from entering the organic marketplace.
Soil Generation is a Philadelphia-based Black- and Brown-led coalition of growers building a grassroots movement through urban farming, agroecology, community education, and more. Read more here.
Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. Soul Fire shares skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. You can read more about their Braiding Seeds Fellowship.
Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network is a regional network for Black farmers committed to using ecologically sustainable practices to manage land, grow food, and raise livestock that are healthy for people and the planet. Read more here.