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We Farm Because We Remember: Honouring Ancestors Through Radical Black Farming, Self-Determination, Land, and Food Sovereignty
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12 Noon PST/1PM MST/2PM SK + MB/3PM EST/4PM AST
February 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CST
This session centres Radical Black Farming as an ancestral and contemporary practice rooted in memory, resistance, and self-determination. Guided by Black farmers, land stewards, and organizers, the conversation honours ancestors whose agricultural knowledge, spiritual relationships to land, and collective labour continue to shape Black food systems today.
Featuring Jacqueline Dwyer, Matriarch of the Toronto Black Farmers, who grow and share clean, organic food within Black communities, alongside Nadine Dominique, engaged in reforestation and land restoration efforts in Ayiti, this session highlights how Black communities steward land across geographies shaped by colonization, displacement, and extraction.
Isaac Saney, professor at Dalhousie University, will draw connections to Black agrarian movements and reparations-based land justice initiatives through his work examining Black farmers in Cuba. Cikiah Thomas of the Global African Congress will further explore how farming, reforestation, and land reclamation function as tools for healing, climate resilience, collective repair, and reparative justice.
