Sisters Gardens

Sister Gardens is also home to our Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) foodways which occupy 3 of our 5 terraces in the lower part of the farm. As BIPOC people and the children of immigrants we understand and highlight the cultural significance of the foods that we grow to provision ourselves and our community. Foodways in this sense refers to the persistence of people to remain consistent in the perpetuation and production of particular culturally rooted, regionally adapted foods. We have worked over several years to build an archive of seeds for our African, Middle Eastern and and Four Corners bio-regional terraces. This practice of seed saving and continuing cultural crops harkens back to African women, who were stolen from their homes to be enslaved in the USA, bringing seeds across the ocean by braiding them into their hair in at least tacit acknowledgement that they may never see their homes and fields again.