This month, we encourage our Big Green community to take time to honor the historical and cultural significance of Juneteenth. This holiday commemorates the delayed freedom of enslaved Black Americans in Texas, who learned of their emancipation more than two years after it was legally granted.
Check out our reading and resource list below.
Books:
- Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica White
- In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
- We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land and, Legacy by Natalie Baszile
Articles:
- Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest by Amethyst Ganaway
- Op-ed: Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm by Ashanté Reese and Randolph Carr
Podcast Episode:
- Farming While Black by Point of Origin
Video:
- Juneteenth: Dishes to Taste and Savor: Recipes from the Sweet Home Café Cookbook by Joanne Hyppolite and Chef Ramin Coles
