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Soul Fire Farm

Petersburg, NY
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Participants at Soul Fire Farm pick vegetables.
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Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC-centered community farm in upstate New York committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. With deep reverence for the land and ancestral wisdom, they work to reclaim the collective right to belong to the earth. Soul Fire Farm brings communities together on healing land to share skills related to sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice.

“The land is a relative, not a commodity.”

— The Queen Mothers of Odumase-Krobo, Ghana

Featured Media

Participants at Soul Fire Farm pick vegetables.
Emergence Magazine

The Seeds of Ancestors: A Day at Soul Fire Farm

This essay profiles Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, and her work to create spaces for people of color to heal and reconnect to the land—an effort to end America’s food apartheid system.
Vogue Magazine

Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman Explains Why Food Sovereignty Is Central in the Fight for Racial Justice
Center for Humans and Nature

You Belong to the Land

A conversation with Karen Washington and Leah Penniman.

Volunteers at Soul Fire Farm pose with freshly picked onions.
Participants work in the garden.
A girl volunteering on the farm holds bundles of freshly picked chard.
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Courtesy of Soul Fire Farm
Courtesy of Soul Fire Farm