Braiding Seeds Fellowship

“The Braiding Seeds Fellowship gives honor and respect to our ancestral grandmothers who braided seeds and promise into their hair before being forced onto transatlantic slave ships. They believed, against odds, that we, their descendents would exist to inherit, plant, and pass on that seed.”

The Braiding Seeds Fellowship, a project of Soul Fire Farm Institute in collaboration with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives /Land Assistance Fund, and we carry on the legacy of the braided seeds by providing beginning BIPOC farmers with resources, professional development, and mentorship to support their livelihood on land.
Each cohort has been intentionally drawn from the southeast and northeast of the US, along certain corridors of the historic Underground Railroad and the Great Migration. Through the spirit of deepening Black agrarian systems, we are working to bridge the north-south and legacy-returning generations of farmers from these areas.

Funding purpose: Support the growing resource demands of taking on multiple fellowship cohorts at the same time. They use the funds for payroll for the increased hours worked by co-managers, the hiring of interns, on-site visits with fellows, and for workshop resources.

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