Support BlackSeed Farms After Devastating Fire

They did not know beautiful plants grow from blackened soil: Help us root Black Seed for the future.

 

Modest Family Solutions, the distribution hub for Black Seed Farms to provide hunger relief for socially and economically disadvantaged communities. Black Seed Agroecology Farms teaches afro-centric education in Everett to Black Indigenous families and youth of color. During our nation's most vulnerable times Modest Family Solutions and Black Seed entities have raised and procured over 4 million pounds of halal meat, hydroponic greens and vegetables starts for local food insecurity distribution since 2020.

 

July 14, 2024, The Maxine Mimms Academy made a donation to expand the hydroponic garden at Black Seed Farms. The team spent 4 days transporting this heavy equipment from Kent to Whidbey Island and finally finished Thursday night before dropping off trucks. This equipment was on Black Seed property for less than 12 hours! July 19 an arson fire caused a $250,000 loss of equipment that would cultivate hundreds of pounds of healthy nutrient dense food year-round in the Pacific Northwest. This climate friendlily method of food growing uses a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil and is very beneficial for the environment, using 99% less water per acre and reducing chemicals into the soil by 98%.

 

This community agricultural initiative provides families and youth of color with access to technology that increases their future opportunities in the sustainable and organic agricultural space.

 

Vertical farming reduces costs associated with transportation, packaging, spoilage, pollution, water usage, soil erosion and contamination and eliminates the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and preservatives. This direction in food and nutrition policy focuses on health, ecological integrity, education, training, job creation and the development of complete communities.

 

Historically, people of color have owned less than 1% of farmland in America. The technology used in this vertical farming program creates new pathways that transform almost any space to viable farmland. The program created a BIPOC food supply chain utilizing government contracts and local markets that can lead to stable community supported agriculture. We tried to rob great opportunities from our community. Our hearts are saddened but not harden, they did not know beautiful plants grow from blackened soil.

Call to Action: Help Modest Family Solutions umbrella to Ummah Sustained Agroecology Center (1/3-acre urban farm in Everett, WA) and Black Seed Agroecology Farms (a 10-acre rural site on Whidbey Island) open its Agroecology Initiatives identified in the United Nations 2030 Climate Change Goals.

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