Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Teach-Out
Explore the historical, ancestral, and spiritual connections Black communities have to land and agriculture, and learn how Black agricultural practices support food sovereignty, community rebuilding, and land-based living, with practical guidance on gardening, farming, and urban growing.
What you'll learn
- Understand historical, ancestral, and spiritual relationships between Black communities, land, and agriculture
- Learn about food apartheid, structural racism, and community-led agricultural resistance
- Explore benefits of gardening and farming for health, agency, and community resilience
- Gain practical ideas for gardening, farming, and growing food in urban and small spaces
- Reflect on your own familial relationships to food, land, and agriculture
Skills you'll gain
- Gain deeper understanding of spiritual and ancestral relationships to land, plants, and community
- Explain the history of structural racism experienced by Black farmers
- Describe how community gardens and urban farms support resistance, healing, and sovereignty
- Identify social, economic, and health benefits of gardening and farming
- Develop ideas to overcome barriers to growing food in urban environments
- Reflect on and explore your own familial relationships to food and land
Prerequisites
- • None necessary
Who this course is for
- → Learners interested in Black agriculture and food sovereignty
- → People concerned with public health, social justice, and community development
- → Urban residents seeking to start gardening or farming in cities
- → Individuals exploring ancestral and spiritual connections to land and food
Provider
Coursera
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