Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Teach-Out
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Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Teach-Out at Coursera Overview
Duration | 5 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Teach-Out at Coursera Highlights
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Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Teach-Out at Coursera Course details
- Throughout this course, we encourage participants to learn about their ancestral foodways, agrarian practices, and spiritual connections
- These sessions share wisdom and highlight the importance of food sovereignty, rebuilding community, and land based living
- Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual and ancestral relationships that many Black people have to a higher power, land, plants, and each other
- Participants will walk away from this series with an understanding of the many benefits of gardening and farming, including but not limited to social capital, collective agency, physical wellbeing, deepened spiritual connections, community resilience, economic autonomy, organizing, mobilizing, and improved mental and emotional health
- Participants will leave this session with the desire to learn more about their own familial relationships to food and land, as well as a greater understanding of Black agriculture
Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Teach-Out at Coursera Curriculum
Land is at the Center
Introduction to Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid
Land is at the Center
About this Course
Who helped make this Teach-Out possible?
Suggested Readings
Optional Readings
A Brief History of Structural Racism Experienced by Black Farmers
We don't farm because it's trendy; we farm as resistance, for healing and sovereignty
Suggested Readings
Community Resistance to Disinvestment and Structural Racism
Community Solutions to Food Apartheid
Suggested Readings
Philly's Threatened Gardens and Advocacy Efforts, Part 1
Philly's Threatened Gardens and Advocacy Efforts, Part 2
What is "Councilmanic Prerogative"?
Suggested Readings
Honoring the Spirit of the Land
Stewarding from the Spirit: Sacredness of Soil
Stewarding from the Spirit: Honoring Roots and Relationships
Stewarding from the Spirit: Planting with Intention
Stewarding from the Spirit: Pollinators and "Pests"
Stewarding from the Spirit: Crops of the African Diaspora
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Resources For Your Gardening Journey
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