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Philadelphia, PA
4daSoil
4daSoil is a Black and Asian-women-led cooperative enterprise, committed to a practice of revolutionary care of themselves, one another, and their partners. Wildseeds Grant funds will support development and implementation of a long-term communications plan that utilizes compelling storytelling, visual representation, and defined messaging to consistently and powerfully share their vision, strengthen their ability to build community power, and grow their ability to amplify Black and Brown land struggles, victories, and celebrations.
Oakland, CA
Acta Non Verba
Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project’s (ANV) mission is to elevate life for youth and their families in Oakland and beyond by challenging oppressive dynamics and environments through urban farming and access to the natural environment. Wildseeds Grant funds will support website development and marketing efforts that makes their information easier to access and amplifies their work to cultivate the next generation of advocates, activists, and freedom fighters
Albuquerque, NM
Agri-Cultura Network
Agri-Cultura Network’s mission is to create a healthier food system, build self-sufficiency among local farmers and families, and improve community health by increasing access to healthy, affordable, locally-grown food and community-based nutrition education. Wildseeds Grant funds will support establishing a brand identity that powerfully conveys the mission and message of La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture and Agri-Cultura Cooperative Network, and integrate the branding across platforms to establish it as a cornerstone of their message towards sustainable and regenerative food justice.
Lutherville, MD
Black Church Food Security Network
Black Church Food Security Network’s (BCFSN) mission is to co-create Black food ecosystems anchored by Black churches in partnership with Black farmers to promote health, wealth, and power in the African American community. Wildseeds Grant funds will support increasing their digital presence and spread a message of food justice through website, print publications, and social media, while continuing to amplify the voices and efforts of those on the front lines of advocating for Black food sovereignty through Black church communities.
Brooklyn, NY
Black Fiber & Textile Network
Black Fiber & Textile Network supports the livelihoods and lifeways of Black people across the globe who use, produce and work with regenerative fibers, plant dyes, and sustainable or artisanal textiles. Wildseeds Grant funds will support collaboration with bftn members on a video series that tells the story of bftn members and their work; and to utilize unified messaging, branding, and narrative creation to amplify bftn's presence on social media.
Fresno, CA
Black Zocalo
Black Zocalo’s mission is to uproot racism and injustice in the food system by honoring reciprocal relationships with the land through black and indigenous practices. Wildseeds Grant funds support the integration of communications strategies in the creation of an economically sustainable worker-owned cooperative rooted in collective decision-making, practices, and strategies common amongst the ancestors of Black and Indigenous people and centered around the knowledge sharing of Black and Indigenous foodways and land-based relationships.
Orocovis, Puerto Rico
Camposofía
Camposofia’s mission is to transform the way agriculture is practiced in Puerto Rico, where agriculture aligns with the needs of rural communities. Wildseeds Grant funds support facilitation of ongoing dialogues around food systems and develop case studies and video production that communicate the scale of impact of The Camposofia Community Center as a model of what is possible for communities from within Puerto Rico.
Newport, OR
Central Coast Food Web
Central Coast Food Web’s mission is to strengthen Oregon’s local, coastal and regional food systems by providing services and support to small, independent food producers and making it easier for all people to find and buy local food. Wildseeds Grant funds support the implementation of a two year communications strategy that will increase engagement to strengthen to local fisher economy, educate on fisheries coastal ecology and connect fisherfolk.
Mayagüez, PR
Colectiva Agroecológica de Masificación y Unidad (CAMU)
Colectiva Agroecológica de Masificación y Unidad’s (CAMU) mission is to investigate the intricate interactions and dialectic relations between humans and the environment through community-centered participatory research to address inequitable environmental burdens and cultivate alternative, sustainable and just relationships with natural systems. Wildseeds Grant funds supporting creating and disseminating digital educational content that helps scale out agroecology, food sovereignty, and political ecology discussions while documenting the narratives and experiences of farmers engaged in these transformative processes; and organizing in-person farmer-to-farmer (Campesino a Campesino) workshops focused on political organizing within agroecology and food system movements.
Durham, NC
El Futuro Es Nuestro
El Futuro Es Nuestro’s mission is to combat the exploitative working and living conditions faced by H2A guest workers and immigrant farmworkers living and working in the Southeast U.S., primarily in North Carolina, and to increase rank-and-file leadership within the farmworker movement and, more broadly, U.S. labor movement. Wildseeds Grant funds support training farmworkers to develop a video series featuring farmworker-filmed footage that highlights the work of El Futuro es Nuestro, honors the legacies of farmworkers who have passed, and provides educational content on critical farmworker issues including wage theft, workplace accidents, and regulations.
Watsonville, CA
Esperanza Community Farms
Esperanza Community Farms’ mission is to promote consumption of fresh and local organic produce, and economic justice in the Pajaro and Salinas Valley’s, by supplying sustainably farmed produce for families and partners, especially traditionally excluded people. Wildseeds Grant funds support building on trusted relationships with a multilingual, multi-generational immigrant farmworker community and their children to create a student-led project, 'Super Sanos!'. The project will engage students in healthy eating through on-farm-experiences, art, and popular education, highlighting the transformative power of food systems change.
San Juan, PR
Fideicomiso de Tierras Comunitarias para la Agricultura Sostenible (FiTiCAS)
FiTiCAS’ mission is to protect arable lands in perpetuity as common property, guaranteeing fair and equitable access to land for generations of landless farmers who practice agroecology to promote food sovereignty for those who inhabit the islands of Puerto Rico. Wildseeds Grant funds support strengthening FiTiCAS's communications team and collaborators in order to amplify the "Por los Comunes Agroecológicos" campaign—both digitally and through printed materials that support solidarity mobilization. The campaign focuses on the experiences and aspirations of agroecological landless farmers and promotes land commons as a path toward fair, solidarity-based and sustainable food systems.
Naples, NY
Food for the Spirit
Food for the Spirit’s mission is to work in partnership with frontline communities who value food sovereignty, by building solidarity and collective power through creating spaces for visibility, connection, self- and community-care. Wildseeds Grant funds support capacity building for public narrative and policy advocacy efforts of their grassroots base in Buffalo, the Finger Lakes, and across NY state, in pursuit of collective policy advocacy goals.
Four Corners, CO
Four Corners Food Coalition
Four Corners Food Coalition’s mission is to support equitable, community driven, and localized food systems. Wildseeds Grant funds support the development of a podcast and zine that highlight foundational stories of food sovereignty in the Four Corners region.
Salinas, CA
Future Leaders of Change
Future Leaders of Change’s mission is to create opportunities for other youth like us, to not only educate them about pesticide reform and environmental activism, but also to help elevate their voices for change and in their community. Wildseeds Grant funds support a youth-led communications project that will make information about pesticide reform and environmental activism more accessible and elevate more youth voices for change in their community.
Brentwood, CA
Hijas del Campo
Hijas del Campo’s mission is to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers, along with their families, to improve their daily life, working conditions, health, and safety. Wildseeds Grant funds support increasing knowledge, access to resources, and vital services for Campesinx (farmworkers) - including access to health care, food security, housing, education, and information on legal rights - through community forums, resource sharing, and education.
Boise, ID
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils’ mission is to bring people together to build grassroots power through community organizing, leadership development and civic engagement, and take action to promote and protect health, safety, dignity and justice for frontline communities, including farm workers, and directly impacted communities. Wildseeds Grant funds support IORC’s Farmworker Justice and Health Campaign, a farmworker-led campaign to educate, safeguard, and advocate for statewide policies addressing issues such as heat exposure, smoke inhalation, and pesticide poisoning among farm workers.
Louisville, KY
Kentucky Black Farmers Association
Kentucky Black Farmers Association’s mission is to advocate for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) farmers, displaced and/or marginalized persons in agriculture by creating a solid leadership foundation. Wildseeds Grant funds support shifting the narrative about Black farmers and urban agriculture, and increasing the number of Black farmers in Kentucky, through storytelling, on-farm education, coordinated messaging, and policy advocacy.
Danbury, CT
Liberated Land Cooperative
Liberated Land Cooperative’s mission is to teach communities of color to identify and stand in their own power, while addressing food insecurity in their immediate communities. Community activists use the tools of organizing, popular education, culture and the arts, to create grassroots systemic change to achieve food justice. Wildseeds Grant funds support the creation of a compelling docu-series that showcases the journey of Afro-Indigenous farmers forming a cooperative to combat Food Apartheid, and shares how these farmers draw upon their ancestral wisdom to cultivate crops in harmony with the land, heal ecosystems, and combat the impacts of climate change.
Porcupine, SD
Makoce Agriculture Development
Makoce Agriculture Development’s mission is to develop Indigenous agriculture and food systems designed to regenerate equitable healthy communities, economies, and their environment. Wildseeds Grant funds support telling the stories of Makoce's Indigenous agriculture and food systems initiatives - including a food systems institute, cultural foods program, and food hub - through the development and implementation of external communications, outreach, and education plans.
Waunakee, WI
Moving Mountains
Moving Mountains’ mission is to provide leaders and organizations with space, resources, and support to reflect, create, organize, and achieve gender justice. Wildseeds Grant funds support creating counternarratives and campaigns that support Southeast Asian farmers, such as Hmong farmers, in establishing and solidifying a role in their agricultural ecosystem; and creating content that connects intergenerational voices to educational platforms to teach about Hmong food, herbal practices, and farming techniques.
Albuquerque, NM
Not Our Farm
Not Our Farm’s mission is to celebrate and share the stories of non-owning workers on farms. We aim to increase visibility around the challenges and abuses that happen on farms, regardless of the size, location, or reputation. NOF is building power among farmworkers by cultivating a virtual place of community in which farmworkers share their stories and skills, create resources, and form relationships with each other. Wildseeds Grant funds support Free School for Farm Workers, a virtual teach-in series by farmworkers that leads skill-building sessions including Caring for Yourself and Your Crew in Extreme Heat, Safe Movement on Farms, Farmer Burnout, Farming in an Ableist Society Seed Saving, and Farmwork and Caretaking.
Eugene, OR
Oregon Climate and Agriculture Network
Oregon Climate and Agriculture Network’s mission is to convene an inclusive producer-centered network to promote soil health and climate resilience across Oregon through collaboration, education, and advocacy. Wildseeds Grant funds support the development of culturally-appropriate communications about soil health practices for OrCAN’s network of farmers and farm service providers that emphasizes the significant historic and current contributions of BIPOC farmers and honors and promotes indigenous and ancestral soil health practices.
Fresno, CA
Pan Valley Institute
Pan Valley Institute’s mission is to create places where immigrants and refugees can learn from each other, develop a sense of belonging, reclaim their cultural rights, and prepare for building caring and culturally thriving communities. Wildseeds Grant funds support communications capacity through a multimedia narrative campaign that raises awareness about economic inequalities and environmental challenges in the Central Valley while highlighting the vital contributions of immigrants, refugees, and communities of color to regional food systems.
Puerto Rico
Power4PuertoRico Education
Power4PuertoRico Education’s mission is to steadily building an informed network of change agents working together on issues affecting their community. Wildseeds Grant funds support producing a compelling video/social campaign about people, especially women, who are cooperatively and sustainably cultivating the land and facilitating local food production, in the Caribbean and Pacific Island territories.
Oakland, CA
Saba Grocers Initiative
Saba Grocers Initiative’s mission is to serves as a conduit for communities to get healthy food, provide information that promotes health and well-being, and for facilitating community empowerment. Wildseeds Grant funds support community-led communications planning that amplifies their model of an independent BIPOC grocer-led collective, shifts narratives about corner store owners and shoppers, and helps bring healthy foods to corner stores.
Lewiston, ME
Somali Bantu Community Association
Somali Bantu Community Association’s mission is to provide vital transitional services, advocacy, and food production that empowers members of the refugee community to uphold cultural identity and economic well-being to thrive in their new life here in Maine. Wildseeds Grant funds support creating resources and educational materials to increase land access for BIPOC and immigrant farmers in Maine, including land access one-pagers translated in French, Somali, and Maay Maay; a series of land access videos; and educational information for landowners working with BIPOC and immigrant farmers.
New Orleans, LA
Song Community Development Corporation
Song Community Development Corporation’s mission is rooted in the Vietnamese American experience of New Orleans East and pursues the full liberation of Black and Indigenous people, and People of Color across all intersectional identities to improve the quality of life of residents in vulnerable communities in Southern Louisiana. Wildseeds Grant funds support the development of an expanded narrative for the VEGGI Farmers Cooperative, which provides economic opportunity for community farmers, healthy food access for low-income residents, and cultural organizing through preservation of Vietnamese food practices.
Mariposa, CA
Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation (Ofi Nia Productions)
Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation’s mission is to protect, preserve and enhance the spiritual, cultural, physical values, and resources of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation by maintaining the customs, traditions, and heritage of their ancestors. Wildseeds Grant funds support continued production of a film highlighting the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation’s landscape stewardship efforts, including Land Back, cultural fire, and the Walappu' 'Uuchuthuu project to explore the relationship between diverse species in the scenic mountains of Mariposa County. This film showcases the importance of indigenous stewardship in the region’s ecosystem and the profound connection between Tribal communities, culture and healthy landscapes.
Rapid City, SD
Tanka Fund
Tanka Fund’s mission is to support private Native American Buffalo caretakers of all herd sizes and across all tribes, including established ranchers, those who are just starting new herds, and those who seek to convert from cattle to Buffalo. Wildseeds Grant funds support documenting and sharing the stories of their Native rancher partners, in order to support their community in reclaiming narratives, amplifying stories, and demonstrating the impacts the buffalo has on the land and economy.
Waelder, TX
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project’s mission is to restore kinship between Texas Indigenous Lineal Descendants and their sacred Buffalo relatives (Iyane'e) through Indigenous-led stewardship, regenerative foodways, and cultural revitalization. Wildseeds Grant funds support the development of an external communications plan that can amplify Indigenous excellence in pursuit of food sovereignty and cultural revitalization by way of buffalo restoration, regenerative agriculture, and traditional ecological knowledge; and provide insight and education on the rich history and culture of Indigenous communities and their profound relationship with the buffalo.
Hattiesburg, MS
TruCulture Community Market
TruCulture Community Market’s mission is to reclaim land, culture, and economic sovereignty by dismantling capitalist racism and its devastating impact on food systems, cultural memory, health practices, and economic prosperity in Black, Indigenous, and communities of color in need of liberation. Wildseeds Grant funds strengthen their storytelling, narrative framing, and communications planning to elevate frontline voices and spread their efforts in addressing food apartheid, land-based healing, and economic sovereignty in their community.
Visalia, CA
Wukchumni Tribe
Wukchumni Tribe’s mission is to revitalize and maintain the cultural values (traditional and spiritual) of the Wukchumni Yokuts. Wildseeds Grant funds support telling the story of Wukchumni Farms and their food sovereignty and land stewardhsip work through strategic communications strategies including social media, website development, and storytelling videos.