Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is a podcast centering Black sustainability leaders across fashion, agriculture, wellbeing and beyond. Through storytelling, culture, and climate conversations, the show explores how ancestral wisdom and modern practices can cultivate regenerative futures. Hosted by Dominique Drakeford, each episode unearths powerful insights that shift the narrative of environmental justice.
Podcasting since 2025 • 36 episodes
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Latest Episodes
Episode 34 | Latham Thomas Unapologetically Goes In on Survival and Sustainability Through Black Matriarchy, Afrofuturism and Weapons of Consciousness
In this episode of Compost, Cotton & Cornrows, Dominique Drakeford sits with Latham Thomas, renowned birth justice advocate, cultural theorist and founder of Mama Glow, a global maternal health and education platform transforming how birth,...
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Reflection Moment | The Practice of Radical Care
This week, Compost, Cotton & Cornrows interrupts our regularly scheduled program. No guest. No interview. No promo assets. Host Dominique Drakeford offers a short grounded reflection on nervous system care, burnout and the...
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Episode 33 | Kevin “The Plant Papi”: Showing Others That They Can - Growing Through Wellness, Joy, Vulnerability & House Plants
In this episode of Compost, Cotton & Cornrows, Dominique Drakeford sits with Kev aka “The Plant Papi”, creator and cultural storyteller known for weaving plant care, mental wellness and radical self-honesty into everyday life. What begins a...
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Episode 32 | You Cannot Talk About Climate Without a #FreeCongo: Maurice Carney on the Foundations of Capitalism, the Silent Genocide Fueling the Global Green Tech Economy & Why Agro-Liberation Rooted in the Congo Basin Rainforest Is Essential
In this uncompromising conversation, Dominique Drakeford sits with Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, to name what the world has been trained to ignore: the Congo is not a footnote to modern life … It is ...
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Episode 31 | Ciara Imani May of Rebundle Building Patented Climate Solutions Inside the $19 Billion Hair Extension Industry
In Episode 31 of Compost Cotton and Cornrows, Dominique Drakeford sits with Ciara Imani May, founder of Rebundle and producer of Reclaimed Beyond the Braid, for a conversation that reframes beauty as a climate and health conversation rooted in ...
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Episode 31
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