Ashley Gripper
Ashley Gripper is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental Health Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also a Health Policy Research Scholar, and an active member of Soil Generation, a Black and Brown-led coalition of urban farmers, gardeners, and food justice activists.
We Don’t Farm Because it’s Trendy: Farming is not new to Black people
For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and resist oppressive structures that tear them down. Today, agriculture still serves an important role in the lives of Black people, which is why we see urban agriculture projects and programs in Philadelphia, Detroit,…