Middlesex County NAACP Connecticut This focus group confidentiality interviewed--in both English and Spanish, as individuals or in groups, in person or virtually--30 residents of Middlesex County who identify as Latino/a/e, and asked about their health concerns, needs, and wants. This is a supplement to a 2019 study with Black/African- American residents of Middlesex County. The objectives and outcomes are summarized below.

Jul 28, 2024  #farmersprotest #justiceforblackfarmers #blackfarmers 93 views • Jul 28, 2024 • #farmersprotest #justiceforblackfarmers #blackfarmers This 30-minute video contains highlights of a panel discussion of the continuing struggles for truth and justice by Black farmers and some for US Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees. In addition, this video puts a name with a face of some of the farmers and friends who ares struggling in their fight for fairness and equity against the USDA. The video also pays tribute to a partial list of farmers, employees, advocates and supporters who have died over the years. #justiceforblackfarmers #blackfarmers #farmersprotest 2024 Whistleblower Summit Panel Discussion (July 2024),https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymo9ZNTGbU

Gary Johnson Media Group Sep 1, 2022  #blackfarmers #justiceforblackfarmers #blackmeninamerica How many of us know a full-time Black farmer? Someone who farms for a living? Black Farmers are distant from most people. Unless you personally know a Black farmer, you don't have a link or emotional connection...until NOW! Farmer Bernice Atchinson talks about her experience with the US Department of Agriculture. This conversation was taken from the "Speak The Truth" show recorded on August 28, 2022. #blackfarmers #justiceforblackfarmers #blackmeninamerica #speakthetruth, #anameandaface\ QM Bernice Atchison lost 278 acres of land because if the USDA discrimination. A Name and A Face - (Supporting Black Farmers),https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ewhpnBPNpA

Making Biogases with waste that can be used to make renewable energy. Cameroon Green Girls Project,https://youtu.be/HN1M-8rj-8M?si=6PHZur576MEx-7eh

"The civil rights movement emboldened many black farmers to join cooperatives. It may have also provoked more discrimination by white-owned businesses against black farmers in commercial dealings. But, discrimination in some cases induced cooperative formation. In a time of interracial tensions, bulk purchasing of farm supplies or assembling member products for consolidated transactions enabled black farmers to minimize the frequency of their individual interactions with white merchants and product brokers. Cases of this mechanism are documented, where farmers’ access to supplies or markets were blocked when they were known to be members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)."

To think I started my farming journey by accident. All it took was a seed,dirt, and lots of love to grow.

Today our partners at Morena Farming and Chicks Ahoy Farm partnered together to put up a coop and welcome 9 chickens to the Miller Street Community Farm. Alongside community members, we learned about the basics for caring for the chickens, set up the food and water feeders, laid woodchips in their nesting area, and fed them sunflower seeds. In the coming week, we'll make sure their predator protection is set up to keep them as safe as possible. The chickens in this coop will provide eggs, an important protein source, for the neighbors on Miller/Bridge in Middletown. Check out pics from the day, and if you're interested in learning more about chickens or helping with the care of our birds, please write to diana@katalcenter.org.

Great piece by Katal Center's Taina Manick on food justice, farming and parole. Recently families from Hartford, Middlesex, and New Haven County met in Bloomfield to talk about and plan some action around them. https://ctmirror.org/2024/11/15/cultivating-justice-through-community-and-conversation/