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We The Land!
August 7 - August 9
We the Land! is a gathering for Indigenous, Black & Brown earth workers, land stewards, and farmers.
We invite our community for a weekend of knowledge exchange, skill sharing, grassroots organizing, celebration, and ceremony.
We the Land! is rooted in NEFOC’s vision to advance land and food sovereignty in the Northeast region through permanent & secure land tenure for PoC farmers and land stewards in a sacred manner that honors our ancestors’ dreams ~ for regenerative farming, human habitat, ceremony, native species ecosystem restoration and cultural preservation.
We the Land! is a biennial gathering uplifting Indigenous, Black, & Brown Earth Workers, Land Stewards & Farmers, creating a weekend container of knowledge exchange, grassroots organizing, land relations celebration, and sacred ceremony. Join us August 7th-9th 2026 at Smith College in Northampton, MA!
In the midst of (un)expected global and political challenges, We the Land! is an invitation to pause, gather, and strategize collective futures in conversation with Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust’s community-led network rooted in the following:
- Interrupting the isolation often associated with being farmers of color in the Northeast by building relationships of mutual respect and joy, the foundation of community care, and movement work.
- Sharing skills, resources, and time— building collaborative projects and initiatives.
- Coordinating our policy demands and catalyzing reparations for Black-Indigenous-POC farmers and land stewards.
- Collectively envisioning, enacting, and sharing ways to be in reciprocity with Land, in the process healing generational trauma and redefining the meaning.
After the gathering seeds, planted, tended to, and fostered during We the Land! 2024, we are thrilled to once again call in and connect our mycelial network of farmers, gardeners, activists, organizers, healers, artists, ceremonial holders, and all who orient within the intersections of land, food, and climate justice.
