FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge - You commit to deepening your understanding of, and willingness to confront, racism for twenty-one consecutive days in April of 2021. The Challenge will raise your awareness, change your understanding and shift the way you behave. However, the Challenge goes beyond individual or interpersonal racism by helping to demystify structural and institutional racism and white supremacist patterns that are sometimes invisible to people. Finally, the Challenge inspires you to act, on your own or with others in your organization, business or group, to dismantle these systems, to make changes in your work and the world that can build true equity and justice for all.

(Article) 4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System - Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do to fix it.- By Leah Penniman
(Book) Farming While Black - the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their rightful place of dignified agency in the food system. This one-of-a-kind guide provides readers with a concise “how-to” for all aspects of small-scale farming - By Leah Penniman

Somali Bantu Community Association - Our mission is to provide vital transitional services, advocacy, and food production that empowers members of the refugee community to uphold cultural identity and economic well-being to thrive in their new life here in Maine.

The Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust* (NEFOC LT) is a hybrid model land trust, bringing together a community land trust model and a conservation land trust model to reimagine land access as well as conservation and stewardship of communities and ecosystems with the goal of manifesting a community vision that uplifts global Indigenous, Black, and POC relationships with land, skills, and lifeways. We are advancing permanent and secure land tenure through rematriating land and seeds; farmland stewardship, preservation and expansion; envisioning ways to be in reciprocity with land and creation, and by reimagining what the word “farmer” stands for.
Food justice is racial justice. As the nation rises up to protest atrocities against Black people, here are some organizations working to advance Black food sovereignty.

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. We bring diverse communities together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. We are training the next generation of activist-farmers and strengthening the movements for food sovereignty and community self-determination. Our food sovereignty programs reach over 160,000 people each year, including farmer training for Black and Brown growers, reparations and land return initiatives for northeast farmers, food justice workshops for urban youth, home gardens for city-dwellers living under food apartheid, doorstep harvest delivery for food insecure households, and systems and policy education for public decision-makers.

New Roots Cooperative Farm works to build economic security for New Americans by providing delicious vegetables for their community. By purchasing their food, you are getting healthy food for your family and helping grow security, jobs and ownership in the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston. Our cooperative provides us with access to land, equipment, and markets.

Isuken is the Nation’s first Somali Bantu farm-to-table worker-cooperative food truck. We are sharing the culinary and agricultural talents of Somali Bantu farmers and chefs with our community. We, Somali Bantu, are farmers and have fed and nourished our community and country and now grow and cook for our American neighbors.