50. Farming Heals Us: Yeawa Asabi and Ray Williams of Black Farmer’s Collective and Yes Farm

            In season three of the podcast, we are dedicating a number of our episodes to the exploration of environmental justice themes. In this episode we talk with Ray Williams, Director of Black Farmers Collective, and Yeawa Asabi, a volunteer at Yes Farm—an urban community project that the Collective has established in the heart of Seattle. Yeawa has also been a student in the graduate program where Forrest served as a professor. As is the case with so many of his students, Forrest learned new things from Yeawa—such as the restorative power of farming to heal the social wounds of her generation.

Guests:

• Ray Williams - cofounder and director of Black Farmers' Collective 
• Yeawa Asabi - volunteer at Yes Farm - urban community farm run by Black Farmers' Collective Small Axe - 2nd teaching farm started by Black Farmers' Collective 

Mentions: 

• Northwest University MA in International Community Development (where Forrest teaches and Yeawa is earning her master’s)
• food sovereignty 
•  housing segregation's continued effects in the U.S.; Brookings Institute: The Great Real Estate Reset 
• affinity groups - Example: Racial Affinity Group Guide for schools 
•  Black Lives Matter 
•  BIPOC = Black, Indigenous & People of Color 
• BSU = Black Student Union 

Keywords: food justice, food desert, urban agriculture, safe spaces, Seattle, environmental justice, social justice, Black Lives Matter, ally, race and identity, community development, Northwest University

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