Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol educator, farmer, author, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY. She co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 with the mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim our ancestral connection to land.
From a young age, Leah had a deep reverence for nature and the land. This led her to learn about historical regenerative farming practices and share that knowledge with others. It also led her to a greater understanding of our food system and why it’s a major propellor in racial inequality.
This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, Leah and I dive into a critical conversation of our time, looking at the obstacles that are keeping people of color from becoming farmers, and much more.
As Co-Executive Director, Leah is part of a team that facilitates powerful food sovereignty programs—including farmer training for Black and Brown people, a subsidized farm food distribution program for communities living under food apartheid, and domestic and international organizing toward equity in the food system. Her book, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land is a love song for the land and her people.
yeah yeah yeah we get it already. we’re all racists and everything wrong in America is due to racism.
Typical Male yep!
Get over yourself. People are responsible for their own actions, not someone else’s.
Black people have and will always be discriminated against by White Supremacy! If you are so superior why are you afraid to be fair?
hahaha I like how the lady mentioned Democrats being racist, and then followed that by saying “oh but the parties were switched back then”…. LMAO… Typical SJWs in denial of anything that doesn’t fit their agenda
Exactly
Their ideology is collapsing everywhere here in Europe, they have been using immigrants from Africa as a Trojan horse to destroy European identity, and now they are paying its consequences in the voting booth.
@Marco Ragonese I fear this awakening is too late. The youth are brainwashed. Europeans are not having children. The immigrants are multiplying at an exponential rate.
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Same here..
New Labor Laws today =’s Growing Communism tomorrow…
Unsubscribing. I’ve enjoyed your channel, sorry to see you are now using it to push propaganda for the cult of victimology.
thanks for the info (((Dr. Hyman)))
“parties were switched then” keep believing that…Must have come from one of her socialist college professors. Eisenhower tried to pass the Civil Rights Act more than once only to have it shot down by Dems, Lyndon Johnson in particular. Johnson made it law when it was politically convenient. He created a massive dependent class with the welfare state that has completely destroyed the black community. She’s blinded by her own bias and brainwashing which continues to harm her people.
“oh we are so lazy and stupid because racism” – tupical african proffesional victim
Hey Mark, for such a smart man in surprised you pay along with the nonsense
Not sure what’s going on with your site recently. I watch your videos to learn about health not politics. Unsubscribing.
Wow.
Big hearts and indoctrinated brains make for a very useful tool for those who have no heart and never stop in their quest for power. People are waking up to this. How do you think people of all races suddenly became racist overnight? It’s because it’s an unjust lable used to shame others from working with us for freedom, truth and the common good of all people. It’s the old Democrats controlled south on a global scale.
This lady worships the dead and She looks Brown to me?
The best thing to help farm laborers would be an immigration moratorium. When Cesar Chavez was trying to form the IFW union back in the sixties an endless supply of illegal immigrants destroyed his efforts to unionize workers, many of them American citizens who were being treated like peasants. Chavez marched to the border in 1968 to protest massive illegal and legal immigration that continues today.
We have a visa program for farmworkers.
All farmers are allowed to bring in unlimited amounts of TEMPORARY farm labor if no local workers are available. The law states that farmers must provide prevailing wages and housing. The government subsidizes most of the housing. Many farmers prefer to hire illegal labor from a labor contractor. the labor contractor gets a fee from the immigrants to work and takes a bite out of their weekly paycheck. The farmer gets cheap compliant labor that the poor communities have to subsidize with free hospital emergency room healthcare and a burden on the school system and other economic, environmental and social burdens all so the farmer can have cheap labor. few people know that Secretary Bob Bergland under the carter administration shut down every single farm mechanization and harvesting research program in the 1970s thus ensuring farmers would have no substitutes for their cheap illegal labor.
farmers should mechanize, start using the farm visa program, grow crops that are less labor-intensive or go out of business. For too long the country has had to pay a high price for cheap farm labor just so s few could continue to enrich themselves. We desperately need to start talking about an immigration moratorium and less about “racism”.
Was it skin color or I.Q.?