The National Black Food and Justice Alliance Land Steward Immersion cohort will collaborate with our Returning Generation Black Farmer (RGB) Mentorship Program to combine local intergenerational organizing with a regional and national cohort to sustain collective land and nurture the radical imagination. Our 2023 Cohort participants will be immersed in Black Agricultural production, engage in collective study, and receive farmer to farmer experience.
About the Farm
Sankara Farm is a 27-acre, Black owned and operated organic farm positioned in the natural beauty of the Little Blue River Valley. The unceded ancestral land of the Osage, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw and Kansa. We see food sovereignty as an integral decolonial practice, both Agricultural cultural work are grown with revolutionary potential. Free The Land! and Land Back! are synonymous. The farm host a wide range of Afroecological programming and operates as the organizational hub of several local projects directly engaged with Black food sovereignty and Agroecology and this Land Steward Immersion created the apossibility to align our local organizing with regional and national efforts and movements.
Description of Land Site + Housing Options
Sankara Farm is on a 27 acre Black Family owned farm in Kansas City, MO. A synthesis of urban farm and semi rural, prairie, forests and wetlands.
Land Stewards will have various lodging options.
Campgrounds are available with tents and sleeping bags encouraged.
We encourage participants who are comfortable camping to get rooted on the land.
The NorthStar Farmhouse has available 2 ground level bedrooms, and 1 bathroom,. With both private or collective accommodation. The ground level also hosts the Collaborative kitchen, and laundry.
The NorthStar Underground has available 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, can be both private or collective accommodation. The Quindero Quarters is a multi-use center that has a self serve communal kitchenette, a collective space for meal sharing, collective study and weather dependent classroom.
For Participants who are attending only for the day or two...
each day includes 2 meals, over night rates have 3 meals
We are offering sliding scale solidarity rates, blessed for the support of our comrades and community partnerships, contact us directly if applying for scholarship to attend.
Pay what you can - Solidarity Scale
at least $25.00 - Helps us cover cost of materials for training activities
at least $50 day - Helps us cover cost of materials for activities and locally sourced plant based meals
at least $75 a day - Helps us build a new future for fellowship and support our Immersion Facilitators
Camping is encouraged and separate registration is required (HipCamp)
LAND STEWARD Session III Trainings and Topics may Include:
(Schedule TBA soon)
AGROVOLTAICS (Agriculture and SOLAR POWER combined in multi-use Energy cycle) - planting in the shade
Building for the future : Transformation of a Shipping Container into Cold Storage Infrastructure and Eco-Bathroom Build
Soul Qi - Mind, Body, Breath - is a moving meditative, mindfulness martial art expression of Tai Chi, that cultivates culturally relevant soul-to-soul connection.
Phresh Harvests, Preparations and Preservation
Canning, Drying and more
Plant Based - Meal Planning
CPR/ First Aid AHA Certificate
Community Safety Planning
Street medic
Survival skills
Trail Clearing
Microcontrollers on the Farm: learn how to use accessible technologies to improve the capacity to measure temperature, humidity and more.
MYCOREMEDIATION - Mushroom spawn cultivation and soil remediation
Community Medicinal and Herbal Garden Build - in Honor of Mutulu Shakur and the lineage of Black Healers
Perennial native planting in the urban prairie for pollinators, people and the planet
COB BUILDING - Ancient Earth building techniques engaged to construct Afrofuturistic Community Ceremony Grounds and Oven
AgroArt - Evening SessionZ
Fabric Prints
Black Walnut Ink PrintmakingFilm Screenings
Fireside Open Mic and Drum Sessions
Collective Book Study - Black Earth Wisdom
Weekend Cultural Immersion Sessions -
September 16th and 17th - Tiny house Fellowship Build (Schedule TBD)
All engaged in Nurturing the Black Radical Imagination using cultural work, Black technologies and rootwork
