Crop Planning Virtual 3D

Crop Planning Virtual 3D with Amara Ullauri and Larisa Jacobson.

The 3D series is a multidimensional workshop series designed for B.I.P.O.C. (Black, Indigenous, & People of Color) to deepen skills in specific farming and land stewardship practices in a culturally relevant, supportive, and joyful environment.

Growing Stories with the Land--Crop Planning for Gardens & Farms

We are invoking the stillness and reflection time that the coming season offers to guide us in dreaming and planning for how next year’s growing season will flourish. This visionary practice is what we call crop planning, an iterative process of shared storytelling that involves input from all the beings that sustain our gardens – our communities, seeds, soil life, water, the sun, and our own experience.

Together we are creating a story about who, what, when, why, and how our growing season will unfold that helps us implement resilient strategies to ensure an abundant season. In this workshop, participants will learn how to define a crop plan, including differ ent crop planning methods that can be adapted to best fit harvest goals and learning styles of farmers and gardeners. This workshop is intended for current and aspiring farmers and land stewards seeking to grow with small to mid sized urban farms, community gardens, and/or rural farms.

Together we will learn how to:

• Identify key elements of a crop plan
• Create a story of our relationship with the Land and our communities through crop planning
• Choose a crop planning method that aligns with our needs
• Develop a crop plan that reflects our farm and/or garden goals
• Get started on our own crop planning processes

Language: The instruction will be delivered in English.

Cost: The sliding scale is $5-100. Please think generously - what could be more important to contribute to than living food, land sovereignty, and skilled farmers spreading love and knowledge?!

The workshop is designed to be a culturally relevant and safe space that centers Black, Indigenous and People of Color (read why here).

Donations are accepted from those who are unable to attend the live event or those who would like to support BIPOC participant attendance. Following the workshop donor supporters will receive a recording of the virtual event and any accompanying educational resources. For this option, choose DONATION when registering.

Registration closes November 1st at 10 p.m. Eastern Time.

Presenter(s):

Amara Ullauri (they/them/elle)

Amara is a queer and trans student of seeds, pollinators and the moon with 9 years of farming and teaching experience. Amara casts spells of love and reciprocity through their farming and education work so that we may begin to heal together with the earth. Their roots stretch all the way to the Andean highlands and down riparian habitats that feed into the Pacific coast. These roots have been nourished by deep earth-loving communal work along the Mahicantuk river and now grow at Ayni Herb Farm. Amara is the founder and lead steward for this Queer, Trans and BIPOC led herb farm growing culinary and medicinal herbs that sustain ecological abundance and nourish collective liberation.

Find out more about Amara's work at www.ayniherbfarm.com and follow @AyniHerbFarm on Instagram.

Larisa “Lala” Jacobson (all pronouns/elle)

Rooted by ancestors who tended mountainside maize and millet, Lala is a land and story steward sowing seeds of transformation. Having begun farming over 25 years ago and with growing and teaching experience at a variety of scales in urban and rural settings, Lala previously served as Farm Director and Co-Executive Director of Soul Fire Farm, where just some of her work included planning the farm’s systems and incorporation of ancestral plants and practices, coordinating weekly Solidarity Share food deliveries for 100+ members, co-hosting immersions for hundreds of BIPOC land stewards, developing resource guides, and producing the bilingual Liberation on Land Skillshare Video Series.

Lala has worked alongside farmers in Ghana, Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala; organized for land reclamation by elders and youth growing food and herbal medicine in public housing; and managed a farm outside Boston offering land and culturally relevant food for migrant and refugee communities. Currently, as Climate Justice & Advocacy Co-Director at Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC-LT), Lala seeks to support practices for caring for soil and ecosystems during the age of climate crisis and reclaiming our sacred roles as mediators between soil and sky in the collective of beings we know as Land.

Find out more about Lala's work at www.nefoclandtrust.org and follow @nefoclandtrust on Instagram.

About the organizer

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered training farm committed to ending racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. Our food sovereignty programs reach over 10,000 people each year, including farmer training for Black and Brown growers, reparations and land return initiatives for northeast farmers, food justice workshops for urban youth, home gardens for city-dwellers living under food apartheid, doorstep harvest delivery for food insecure households, and systems and policy education for public decision-makers.