Land in Indigenous, Black, and Brown hands… working together to liberate the land, feed our communities, and uplift conservation of more-than-human beings!
Our Vision
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We act for a future of food and land sovereignty in the Northeast region, through permanent and secure land tenure for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian farmers who will relate with the land in a sacred manner that honors our ancestors' dreams – for regenerative farming, sustainable human habitat, ceremony, native ecosystem restoration, climate healing, and cultural preservation.
Our overarching goal is to reshape root causes and systems that marginalize our communities, co-creating a critical mass of self-determined communities generating scalable knowledge together, while synthesizing, sharing, and embodying expressions of land-based solidarity as means of mutual healing and survivance. The core of NEFOC is our Network, an informal alliance of more than 600 Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers and land stewards of color making our lives on land in New England and Upstate New York. Together we collectively envision, enact, and share ways to be in reciprocity with land, in the process healing generational trauma and redefining the meaning of “farmer” and our care for the land and each other.