We at Soil Generation are a Black & Brown agroecology coalition of women farmers and organizers working to ensure people of color regain community control of food and land, protect and commune with the land, share resources, grow food, and prioritize community healing.

We do this work through relationship building, honoring culture, community education, organizing, activism, and advocacy: A People’s Agroecology.

OUR SHARED VALUES

Soil Generation's work is guided by our 4 pillars:

  • Shared Black and Brown Leadership

  • Racial and Economic Justice

  • Anti-capitalism

  • Agroecology

OUR VISION

  • Community Self-Determination. We believe communities know what is best for their neighborhoods and should lead efforts to envision and plan for their land and their food system.

  • Community Self-Representation. We believe decisions about policy, land use and resources should be informed by those most affected. Experience is expertise.

  • Supportive Policies. We believe policies should encourage community-driven green space and food systems, including community gardens and farms. To this end, we advocate for an equitable, accountable and transparent process for accessing, preserving, and tending land for community gardens, farms and green spaces.

  • Healthy Neighborhoods. We believe gardens, farms and green spaces are integral pieces of a healthy neighborhood, yielding many benefits such as: improved public health; opportunities for education; access to and consumption of healthy, affordable, local and culturally appropriate food; self-reliance; safer, healthier and greener neighborhoods; resilient and sustainable environments; community building; leadership development; job training and economic development; and recreation.

  • Food Justice. We believe in a food system that encompasses health and equity at all stages of production, distribution, consumption, and disposal.

  • Environmental Justice. We believe in preserving safe and healthy built and natural environments so that every community has access to gardens, farms, green spaces, wholesome foods and clean air and water. 

Image from page 16 of Agroecology From The People: Volume 1.

Image from page 19 of Agroecology From The People: Volume 1.

GRATITUDE

gratitude for Members Through The Years

Our collective formed as a result of relationships and continues to be a relationship-based formation. Our membership and formation has shifted over the years, but our values remain the same as we move into deeper commitment and practice. We thank and acknowledge SG members through the years for their resonant contributions to the movement and the culture!

gratitude for ourselves

For navigating the political present moment, for caring for our relationships with ourselves and each other, for learning to prioritize our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being, and for exploring deeper our values in practice.

gratitude for our familial & Movement descendants

As we recognize we are also ancestors in training— and because the work is generational, we are powered by the prayers of our future here in the present.

gratitude for our funders

Past and present, for supporting our work and leadership in the movement.