Category: General
Listening to Black Farmers
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June 2, 2021
Please join us for a free online panel presentation next Wednesday: Listening to Black Farmers. Three panelists will share their personal experiences as Black Farmers, social justice advocates, and land conservationists. The panel members, their affiliations, and topics of discussion are listed below:
- Alison Espinosa, of the Rootworker’s Croft, on connecting the past & future of black farming
- Rhyston Mays, of Phillies Bridge Farm, on their personal journey to farming
- Shaniqua Bowden of the Kingston Land Trust,on getting land in black hands
- Followed by a Q&A moderated by SUNY student Melissa Paniagua
A video produced by Al Jazeera entitled Why are all the Black Farmers Vanishing? will also be shared.
This program is presented by Mohonk Consultations and the SUNY NP Sustainability Community and Black Lives Matter at School Coalition.
Please register for this event at Mohonk Consultations.
