Critical Agriculture Sustainable Student Farm

Image of garden plot with young crops growing. Beside the growing crops is a plot covered by cardboard.

Project Description

This project will serve students in the emerging Critical Agriculture Studies major and the wider university community. The project will fund some initial infrastructure, including two polycarbonate greenhouses, a rainwater catchment system and a vegetable washing station. A part of this project is the ‘Cotton & Collards: A Black Plant Relationships Initiative’ which focuses on two plants central to the history of Black people in the United States. This includes healing relationships with the practice of growing cotton, a poetry workshop centering Lucille Clifton’s poem ‘Cutting Greens’ and a Black foodways event to harvest and cook collards.