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Dear Friends,


Over the winter break, I picked up a copy of Leah Penniman’s ‘Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land’ - and it felt like a close friend speaking the truth I had been seeking about our sacred connection to the land. 

In ‘Black People Don’t Use Measuring Spoons,’ a new episode of the Rewriting the Rules℠ podcast, I speak with Leah, a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. 

Together, we explore the importance of reconnecting with the land as a means of healing and liberation and talk about food justice for Black communities, Indigenous Communities, and Communities of color who have been forcibly severed from the land.

Leah also honors us with a reading from her newly-released book, Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists which collects and shares our “ancient ancestral practice of listening to the earth to know which way to go.” I invite you to sit with the wisdom of our ancestors in this special episode. Click the image below to be one of the first people to hear it.
This episode is the third installment of our Women’s History Month series, celebrating the power and wisdom of African women, Black women, Indigenous women and Women of Color everywhere. 

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About Rewriting the Rules℠: 

  • Rewriting the Rules℠ interviews community and business leaders, youth champions, and other radicals whose work builds on the power and genius fundamental to Black communities, Indigenous Communities, and Communities of color throughout our existence. 
  • We shine a light on the legacies of creativity, strength and innovation sustaining these communities in order to help transform institutional cultures and practices. 
  • We are more than storytelling; we give listeners practical tools they can use to build smart, fair, and loving communities. 
  • Our aim is to tell the truth. We do this to respect those before us, those among us, and to conserve and preserve those who are yet to come. 
Stay Amazing! 
Dr. Tracine Asberry
Executive Director
St. Paul Youth Services & SPYS' Youth Champion
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