Black Farmer Grant
We’re thrilled to introduce the 13 Black farmers and land stewards selected for the 2024 Black Farmer Grant—a partnership between Black Food Fund and Giving Reparations.
Maura Kizito
David Bulindah
Cultivated Roots
Salaam Family Farm
Another Spring Farm
Vince Peak
Baby Chavs
Jacobs Agro
Herban Farm NW
Pharm to Body LLC
Scrapberry Farm
Cross Eyed Cricket Farms
Keep Growing Seeds
These incredible change-makers are cultivating the powerful legacy of Black agrarianism across Washington and Oregon.
This year, we’re redistributing $70,000 as an act of acknowledgment and reparative redress for Black farmers and land stewards. At Black Food Fund, we believe that reparative capital lays the groundwork for a more just future for everyone.
To the grant recipients: your dedication to Black farming and land stewardship is truly transformative. Your work inspires us, and we’re grateful to be growing this movement in solidarity with you.
Keep Growing Seeds
Keep Growing Seeds is committed to cultivating culturally significant plants and produce that reflect the rich cultures of our growing region. Based in Castle Rock, Washington, we grow a variety of culturally significant seedlings at both our farm and school gardens in the Portland metro area. Our passion is celebrating and preserving these unique cultural flavors while promoting sustainable agriculture and community resilience. Through hands-on education, we empower future generations to appreciate and share their diverse food traditions.
Maura Kizito
We use farming and natural spaces to promote wellness, physical and mental health for all ages and immigrants from our communities. With access to farming opportunities, promotion of culturally relevant foods and access to market. We advocate for environmental protection and conservation for the benefit of the community. We envision living in healthy communities, having access to healthy, nourishing and culturally relevant foods, and enjoying holistic health.
Cross-Eyed Cricket Farm
As a Black American-owned, non-GMO farm, we prioritize locally sourced, sustainable foods to strengthen regional food systems. We offer pasture-raised poultry, farm-fresh eggs, and a salad sprout mix to complement fresh local greens in our protein baskets, which also include honey from local beekeeper Henry Storch. Through a partnership with FRIEND Agriculture, we provide education and collaborate with food system experts for a regional approach to food security. Our efforts support families, rural food banks, and BIPOC communities across multiple counties in Oregon and Clark County, Washington.
Vincent Peak
Vincent Peak operates a sustainable 12-acre farm in Eastern WA, featuring an orchard, vineyard, chickens, sheep, greenhouses, market gardens, and an apiary. The farm is solar-powered, producing crops like corn, onions, garlic, melons, and pumpkins while also preserving specialty fruit items using cold storage and freeze-drying techniques. With a focus on regenerative farming practices, Vincent Peak is dedicated to producing healthy, locally grown food while supporting environmental stewardship and community well-being.
Scrapberry Farm
Scrapberry Farm supports land-based projects by and for Black people. We’re here to foster relationships with food and medicine plants of the Black/African Diaspora. Our farm and garden spaces exist to foster connections to joy, magic, and healing. We pledge to steward this land as though we were indigenous to it. 🖤✊🏾🌿
David Bulindah
As one of the farmers with Wakulima USA, I am glad and honored to receive this grant to support our efforts of expanding our culturally relevant foods to our East African community. This grant will help support the vision of expanding our food production into Pierce and Thurston Counties.
Herban Farm NW
Herban Farm NW is a small urban farm that grows herbs and peppers in Seattle, Washington. From those herbs and peppers we make small batch hot sauce and seasoning blends to sell year round to tourists at the world famous Pike Place Market.
Baby Chavs
Baby Chavs is the Puget Sound’s premier urban farm specializing in curated microgreens, herbs, and edible flowers. We are woman, veteran, and BIPOC owned.
Pharm to Body
Pharm to Body is a Black women-owned gourmet mushroom farm in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to improve the mind, body, spirit, and environment through gourmet mushrooms while reconnecting Black people to traditional and medicinal uses of gourmet mushrooms.
Jacobs Agro
Jacobs Agro is a 5th generation farm originally started in Guyana. We have been farming commercially since the mid 1800s and continue our tradition here in Seattle, Guyana and West Africa.
Cultivated Roots
Cultivated Roots is a small urban farm located in Portland, Oregon specializing in organically grown vegetables and herbs. We believe farming is not only a lifestyle, but is also a means to cultivate healthy communities, connect with nature, and achieve self-sufficiency. We strive to produce responsibly grown and harvested products that nourish the mind, body and soul.
Salaam Family Farm
Salaam Family Farm is specializing in vegetables like: Amaranth, spinach, cabbage, eggplants, hard and sweet corn, curly kale, collard green, lacinato kale, squash, Utah celery, cauliflower, broccoli, radish, lettuce, hot and sweet pepper, russet and red potato, Swiss and green chard, nightshade, etc.
Another spring farm
Another spring farm aims to nourish those who come in contact with us at any level. Creating space for us to work with the land, to feed and heal ourselves, to play among flowers and rest when full.
The Black Food Fund fuels Black-led food systems transformation across the Pacific Northwest. Our goal is to shift capital in ways that build wealth, self-determination, and resiliency for Black people within our regional food system.
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