Book Club: Farming While Black-Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Next Book Club Meeting; With special guest, author Leah Penniman.

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Thursday May 4 at 4:00PM on Zoom

Featuring paintings by her sister, Naima, for her books, Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom.

Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for 25 years. She currently serves as founding co-ED and Farm Director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a Black & Brown led project that works toward food and land justice. Her books are Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (2018) and Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists (2023).

Find out more about Leah’s work at www.soulfirefarm.org and follow her @soulfirefarm on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

If you would like to participate in our upcoming Book Club please email us at info@falmouthart.org.

The Falmouth Art Center Book Club meets on Zoom every other month. This discussion is free and open to the public. Email the Art Center at info@falmouthart.org  to get a link to participate before each meeting.