Episode Notes

Episode 7: Land Sovereignty is Food Sovereignty- Germaine Jenkins of Fresh Future Farm

In this episode, we speak with Germaine Jenkins of Fresh Future Farm.  We discuss her journey with land tenure and what it means for a farm to be on a month-to-month lease, the effects of gentrification on the community, the relationship between land sovereignty and food sovereignty, and Fresh Future Farm’s exciting next chapter.

About Germain Jenkins  (from www.freshfuturefarm.org): In 2014, Germaine co-founded Fresh Future Farm on a vacant city lot with limited resources. For the last six years she has led a team that created abundance in a disinvested neighborhood. Jenkins has been featured in Food & Wine, New York Times, Essence Magazine and is now the subject of a full-length documentary describing Fresh Future Farm’s work to build community wealth and creative placemaking.

Germaine’s movement allies include Urban Growers Collective (Chicago), CooperateWNC (Old Fort, NC), Black Minimalists, League of Creative Interventionists, Equity at the Table (EATT), and Black Lives Matter of Greater NY.

Fresh Future Farm Website: www.freshfuturefarm.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/freshfuturefarm Instagram: @freshfuturefarm  DONATE: https://donorbox.org/fff-expansion

The music you heard in this episode: “But I will play” and “Universal Harmony of Humanity” by SHUNGU  www.hotrecordsociete.bandcamp.com

Hosted by Natalie Ashker Seevers  Produced by Natalie Ashker Seevers and Benjamin Seevers Mastered by Sean Conrad 

Published on April 6, 2023