FARMER DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION
African American farm operators tend to be older with smaller farms, and lower sales but with the same challenges as larger farms only fewer opportunities. Farms to Grow, Inc. Farmer Develop Program is to ensure that Black farmers and other farmers of color have the tools they need to sustain, thrive and advance their operation.
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YOUNG CHEFS
COOKING & NUTRITION
We offer community cooking programs for adults, children, and families together. Our goal is to connect restaurants and independent chefs to schools and youth centers to bring the joy of cooking to classrooms and after-school programs.
GARDENS TO GROW
Farms To Grow, Inc has installed several gardens in local public schools, Head Start, and Child Care Centers. We currently work with the YMCA East Bay and Frick Middle School to teach and share the love of gardening.
Typically, Black farmers who own or lease land in rural areas are around 60 years old and often juggle full-time jobs due to inequities and disparities that hinder access to education on wholesale procurement and opportunities to compete in the markets.​
DISTRIBUTION - FARM TO MARKET
DIRECT TO CONSUMER
​Farms to Grow, Inc. connects restaurants, families, or individuals to local farmers in their area interested in purchasing in quantities directly from the farmer.
Email: marketing@farmstogrow.com for more information.
FARMS TO SCHOOLS
We connect minority farmers to local schools so they can educate children on where their food comes from and to provide a hands-on growing curriculum.
Schools can also arrange field trips to our local farms. We match local farmers to the schools in their area to provide local schools with healthy food or together they can develop a strategy for a local and peri-local food system.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
FARMERS' MARKET PROGRAM
Seasonal: Reopens June 2024
SUMMER SEASON
2nd & 4th SAT (9:00 a - 2:00 p)
4521 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
By supporting farmers markets, you support a local economy and healthier sustainable agroecosystem. We believe that farmers markets are strategies communities can use to empower themselves to eat healthier.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA)
HARVEST BAGS
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Farms to Grow, Inc is working with California’s African American farmers, urban gardeners, food preservers, a worker-owned food cooperative, and other sustainable farmers to build a collaborative community supported agriculture program.
Dr. George Washington Carver "CIRCLING BACK"
Circling Back is a mobile educational panel installation and an Youth Interactive Science Lab.
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Educational Panel
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It's intended to provide opportunities for community leaders and Farmers to partner for an overarching purpose of empowering communities around food, health, environmental stewardship, the legacy of black farmers, career pathways in agriculture and sustainable practices.
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Dr. George Washington Carver
Youth Interactive Science Lab.
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This is an interactive learning exhibit honoring the legacy of Dr. George Washington Carver as a farmer, artist, scientist, inventor, and teacher.
The interactive exhibit brings Dr. George Washington Carver to life with a microscope table to view plant samples, his inventions, games, books, and images of young GWC.​
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For more information
Email: marketing@farmstogrow.com
FARM TO INSTITUTION
In 2020, R&DE's Stanford Food Institute (SFI) partnered with Farms to Grow, Inc., to launch the Equitable Harvest purchasing program. The program aims to help overcome historical barriers by developing and sharing a scalable purchasing model. As a result of the partnership we developed two toolkits; one to help Black farmers and other farmers of color navigate the path to institutional markets and another to help foodservice organizations diversify their sourcing through engagement with farmers of color. For more information email marketing@farmstogrow.com.
RHYTHMS OF THE LAND
ROTL is an original documentary multimedia film project by anthropologist/filmmaker Gail P. Myers, Ph.D.
The Farms to Grow, Inc. CSA program is a way for consumers to buy seasonal produce at the peak of ripeness direct from the farmers in California.
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Pickup Locations in Oakland and San Francisco:
Delivery available in surrounding areas.
During the summer of 2012, Dr. Myers toured 10 southern states interviewing over 30 African American farmers, sharecroppers, gardeners and one 6th generation coil basket weaver. Your tax-deductible contribution will be dedicated towards post-production, distribution, and marketing of Rhythms of the Land.
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After 20 years in conception and 2 years in post-production, the has been completed.
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THANK YOU to all of our sponsors and donors, we could not have done without you!
Visit rhythmsoftheland.com to request a screening and see the trailer.