Our Promise
To embrace and seek greater inclusivity and diversity of all kinds within our company
and our industry, we will:
Amplify, empower, and inspire.
Building an inclusive and diverse farmer community starts by sharing the stories and wisdom of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQA+ farmers. It is through these stories that we will empower future farmers.
Educate.
We can’t change what we don’t know. The Freight Farms team will stay inquisitive and engaged in the past, present, and future of agricultural, food, and urban farming policies. We will share our growing knowledge and awareness with the greater Freight Farms community.
Support.
We will actively support aspiring Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQA+ individuals in their search to find the right financial resources. It is our duty to serve these groups as they work to overcome the systemic hurdles that prevent them from farming.
Evolve.
We will work tirelessly to create effective and affordable farming solutions so that anyone, anywhere can bring the joy of good food to their communities.
This database is an aggregate of the references, articles, databases, organizations, and other online resources that Freight Farms is using to learn more, and it will grow over time.
We encourage our whole community to use and contribute to the database. Tell us about the sources that have helped you, the initiatives that have inspired you, and the issues that have driven you to action.
Knowledge
Discrimination in USDA
Race and Agriculture
Food Inequality
Agriculture & the Legacy of Slavery
How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South
Sharecropping | Slavery By Another Name
Agriculture & Immigrant Labor
How Japanese and Mexican American farm workers formed an alliance that made history
Modern Day Slavery | NFWM
Urban Farming
TedX: Guerilla Gardener
Disparity Despite Diversity: Social Injustice in New York City's Urban Agriculture System
Climate Change & BIPOC Groups
It's Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People
The Inseparable Link Between Climate Change And Racial Justice
Resources
An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the US Food System, Seventh Edition
Nolumbeka Project: Preserving New England’s Tribal Heritage
The Indigenous Ally Toolkit
Food & Ag Anti-Racism Resources + Black Food & Farm Businesses to Support
Food Deserts: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions Lesson Plan
Actions
Race Forward
Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.
National Black Farmers Association
The National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) is a non-profit organization representing African American farmers and their families in the United States. As an association, it serves tens of thousands of members nationwide.
Black Urban Growers
Black Urban Growers (BUGS) is an organization committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, we nurture collective Black leadership to ensure we have a seat at the table.
Soul Fire Farm
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.
Rooted In Community
The Rooted In Community (RIC) is a national grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership in their own communities. We are a diverse movement of youth and adults working together and committed to fostering healthy communities and food justice through urban and rural agriculture, community gardening, food security, and related environmental justice work.
Migrant Justice / Milk with Dignity
Our mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights. We gather the farmworker community to discuss and analyze shared problems and to envision collective solutions. Through this ongoing investment in leadership development, members deepen their skills in community education and organizing for long-term systemic change.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in fighting human trafficking and gender-based violence at work. The CIW is also recognized for pioneering the design and development of the Worker-driven Social Responsibility paradigm, a worker-led, market-enforced approach to the protection of human rights in corporate supply chains.
United Farm Workers
The UFW Foundation's core purpose is to empower communities to ensure human dignity. We serve over 90,000 immigrants annually through a holistic approach; we provide critical services and engage our constituents in systemic change to break the cycle of poverty.
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The initiatives that have inspired you, and the issues that have driven you to action.