'Farming While Black': A Guide To Finding Power And Dignity Through Food

Leah Penniman was told she wasn't welcome, from her first day in a conservative, almost all-white kindergarten.

 

Leah Penniman made it her goal to start a farm for her neighbors, and to provide fresh food to refugees, immigrants and people affected by mass incarceration.

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"I remember this one girl teasing me and saying brownies aren't allowed in this school ... and that really continued, that type of teasing," she recalls. "Every time I walked into an honors classroom, they would ask me if I was in the right room," she says.

She enjoyed learning and did well, but she also found solace in the natural world... (Read More)
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