Program areas at Soul Fire Farm Institute
Farm-based - Soul Fire Farm Institute, Inc. grows 20,000 pounds of vegetables, fruits, and plant medicine and 250 chickens intensively on 2 acres of land using low-till methods; provides affordable, doorstep delivery of its own Farm fresh organic vegetables, herbs, eggs, and meat to 80+ families; trains 130+ new farmer-activists through our bipoc Fire (black-indigenous-people of color farming in relationship with earth) and bipoc builders weeklong immersions; strengthens connections between its local community and the land by providing daylong food justice programs to 250+ bipoc youth, community Farm days to 300+ intergenerational community members, and "Soul Fire in the city" lawn to garden workshops for 30+ people.
Public education - through public speaking, training, and media, Soul Fire Farm Institute, Inc. awakens the hearts and minds of 3,000 listeners and readers who interact with its public talks, book, and articles - as evidenced by 30+ examples of audience members reporting their concrete actions toward food justice and land sovereignty as a result of what they learned. In addition, Soul Fire Farm Institute, Inc. catalyzes the transfer of resources, land, and power to bipoc farmer-activists by incubating the northeast farmers of color community land trust, training 200+ activists through uprooting racism in the food system intensives, participating in policy-organizing work with heal, nbfja, usfsa, and bugs, generating 7+ matches through the reparations map, and supporting the work of at least one sibling Farm internationally.