About
We envision a future where AAPI communities are farming in rhythm with seasons, restoring reciprocal relationships with land, regionally adapting ancestral foodways for future generations, and ensuring food security for AAPI households. We strengthen relationships between growers upstate NY and communities in NYC, and our efforts will manifest primarily through community farming experiences, market gatherings, preserving ancestral foodways, facilitating community education, and storytelling.
We are Asian American farmers and organizers in the Northeast, including New York and Pennsylvania. Our work focuses on weaving relationships between AAPI farmers, mutual aid, and community based organizations in order to preserve our ancestral foodways and provide culturally resonant produce to those in need.
Our team met through the National Young Farmers Coalition and built relationships through the Asian Farmers affinity caucus.* Our collective backgrounds include farming, education, urban planning, and design.
We share an understanding that new generations of farmers not only inherit the responsibility to feed people, but to address the challenges of climate chaos and increasing social inequities. We follow indigenous and Black leaders worldwide by prioritizing our energy towards restoring the health of our local ecology and communities.
Like many diaspora peoples, we grapple with how to preserve and adapt the traditions that allowed our East-Asian ancestors to sustain soil fertility and themselves for centuries. We center cultural traditions in our work to draw connections between heritage and the present land we live on, and instill a sense of belonging to land and one another.