The Black Food Fund recovers financial capital and redirects those resources to support Black food and land justice in Oregon and Washington.

The act of leveraging capital for social change is an opportunity to recover wealth and redirect its flow, as a way to offer acknowledgment and reparative redress. At its heart, this collaborative work is about creating a pathway for Black farmers to build collective wealth and use cooperative structures to pass that wealth down ways that benefit the collective wellbeing of future generations. It’s about redressing a system that wasn’t built for Black bodies.

Since 2020, we have redistributed a total of 52 grants to 49 unique Black farmers and land stewards across Oregon and Washington. Our redistribution of capital to Black farmers and land stewards supports community-led efforts to promote food justice and preserve Black agricultural traditions. Funds are used in a variety of ways, including to purchase new equipment to scale up business; expand food justice projects that connect Black communities with fresh, culturally-relevant foods and medicines; reclaim and expand ancestral climate stewardship practices; and more.