North America Food & Farm PBC Inc

Total food miles? 27 feet. Who feeds you baby?

Seed saving is one of the most important things you can do. It is literally power and security packed into the smallest portable form. As is in the case with ...tomatoes, one seed will produce 20 lbs of fruit, one tomato will produce 200 seeds and this process can continue into perpetuity. If we teach this to our children, if we encourage them to imagine and create art from this concept of endless replication, if we encourage them to collect and save seeds, not only will they never go hungry, but they will never have to endure the spiritual pain of seeing someone hungry and feel powerless to do anything about it. #seedsavingsaveslives

Today is the day! Join us online today, Friday, May 28th, from 12-1pm (EST) for the Florida Food Forum on "Sacred Nutrition: Religion and Food Justice." The Re...verend Gabriel Morgan, Pastor of St Paul Lutheran Church and Faith Lutheran Church in Tampa, and The Reverend Andy Oliver, Pastor of Allendale United Methodist in St. Petersburg will be presenting on this important topic. Following the presentation will be a discussion and Q&A session. Registration is FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-food-forum-sacred-nutr IMPORTANT WEBINAR ACCESS INFORMATION The forum is held over the Microsoft Teams platform and can only be accessed from a Google Chrome browser or by downloading the Microsoft Teams app on a computer. If you are unable to see the shared presentation, you may need to download the most recent update of Teams. From a cell phone the webinar can be accessed by downloading the free Microsoft Teams app or dialing-in. A recording of the event will be posted on our website and YouTube channel after the event. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Congratulations to Steven Satterfield and Stephen Satterfield ! I look forward to enjoying this!

T OE Are they a vitamin? Nope! Are they a supplement? Nope! ... Are they a replacement for eating fruits & veggies? Nope! (But they are the next best thing!) Do you pee them out? Nope! Are they researched? Yep! (The most researched nutrition product in the world!) Are they safe for kids and pregnant women? Yep! (It’s just food) Are they filled with the most nutritious raw fruits, veggies and berries? Yep Have they changed my family’s health for the better? Without a doubt! No more colds, no more acne, no medications and more energy for me! Do they cost less than a cup of coffee a day? Yep! $2.50 to be exact! 6 years of making this one simple change! One of best health decisions ever. #Health #healthyliving #healthylife #healthykids #healthyfamily #behealthy #cleanse #greenjuice #juicegirl #greenjuicegirl #highvibefoods #snackhappy #happysnacks #ieatrainbows #plantbased #fuelyourbody #aginggracefully #fortyandfabulous

The soil is alive! It's breathing! We know this, but it's also really cool to do a bunch of science experiments that confirm this. Our soil respiration test, th...e one that measures the breathing of soil life, maxed out on "high CO2" in just a few hours when it's supposed to sit for a full 24 hrs. Another super fascinating test was slake/aggregate stability where you basically dunk your soil in water and see if it can stick together and keep the water clear - if yes it means the soil biota are abundant enough to secrete a glue that holds soil aggregates together. Our soil was comparable to healthy forest soils nearby, very good news. As part of our soil carbon citizen science project with BIPOC farmers across the northeast, Briana is testing out the methods at Soul Fire Farm first. We also tried out the penetrometer, biopore and earthworm count, microbiometer, infiltration, and munsell soil color. It made me miss my 17 years as a high school science teacher doing labs all the time. When we first wed ourselves to this land back in 2006, the soil was grey and compacted. We worked with compost, cover crops, mulch, low and no till, rotational grazing, and raised beds to build up the organic matter over time. It's a ton of work and really affirming to know the soil has come back to life by all measures. Dr. George Washington Carver believed that unkindness to anything means an injustice done to that thing, a conviction that extended to both people and soil. #soilnerd #soulfirefarm #lifeonland@farmingwhileblack@soulfirefarm @black.earth.wisdom

Alright y’all gotta bust my butt today starting with the gym. These potatoes are stoopid good. Peace & blessings y’all #farmtotable

This is the labor a lot of us did while growing up in Southwest Georgia (Americus). The youths pictured here captures my existence then. I remember vividly waki...ng up at 5am with my mom, to hop on the back of a pickup truck driven by the cotton growers. Once we arrived at the cotton field, you encountered rows of cotton that seemingly had no end. We would pick cotton from sun up to sun down and we were lucky to make three dollars for an entire days work which produced a load like the one shown here with the exhausted youth stretched upon. The going pay was I believe $2.50 to 3.00 for a hundred pounds. Everyone strived to pick at least a hundred pounds in a day. Sometimes when fellas thought we were a bit short, we would take turns and pee on the cotton to make it heavier(lol). It was considered a bit of payback for our exploited labor. Can you imagine how difficult it was trying not to pee all day until it was quitting time? See more

This season's planting of sweet potato slips in the Market Garden our firm managed at Sweet Potato Cafe was completed today. We chose the Beauregard variety to suit the needs of the restaurant's "Farm@Table" cuisine and arranged the beds to fit close to 300 plants in this patch. - North America Food & Farm PBC Inc - NAF2 #NAF2SweetPotatoFuturesMarket

I call it Potato Silo: I’ve been doing it for several years now. This year I am doing Yukon Gold and Purple potatoes. Good for small areas and people who want t...o just isolate planting areas. Once I mound the potato plants at the end of the season. Some times I just dismantle the apparatus and let the potatoes roll out. Usually I get 25-30 per silo. I live in Zone 6b-7a growing area so I planted around mid-April. I’m expecting potatoes between or near the end of September or early October. But I really start watching for the plant to brown, it can surprise you and brown in late August. Here’s my little secret of repurposing: At the end of the potato season I utilize the silo as a compost container until the following Spring.