Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

Voter turnout on swaths of tribal land in Arizona surged compared with the 2016 presidential election, helping Joe Biden to victory in a state that hadn’t supported a Democratic in a White House contest since 1996. Native Americans were among the difference-makers who swung the race to Biden in Arizona. “It truly takes a village,”...

Regenerative agriculture is a system of practices that focuses on soil health and increasing biodiversity — and it could help reverse the effects of climate change. ‘Human beings don’t inherently need to trash the planet to eat,’ explains Leah Penniman, the co-director and farm manager at Soul Fire Farm and Pritzker Award finalist. 

The New York Times followed 3 small farms where they found people cultivating way more than food. Take a look at Leah Penniman, @soulfirefarm co-director and Pritzker Award finalist tackles food apartheid & systemic racism that affects some communities

2020 Pritzker Finalist, farmer, activist, and author Leah Penniman writes about the fight for food sovereignty for Harper’s Bazaar. “I prefer the term “food apartheid,” which indicates that the vast swaths of this nation where people of color disproportionately suffer from hunger, diabetes, and heart disease are the human-created outcomes of systemic racism, not natural...

In recent years, Axum said he has noticed a “big movement” among Black farmers toward embracing organic methods. These aren’t practices borrowed from White organizations and individuals but rather from within their own cultural heritage, reaching back to the verdant plains and terraced slopes of Africa. A key thought leader and practitioner in the movement...

Soul Fire Farm, is a “BIPoC-centered community farm” — the acronym standing for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. The 80-acre (32-hectare) farm was founded in 2011 by an African-American activist, Leah Penniman, and her husband Jonah Vitale-Wolff. It specializes in medicinal herbs, such as mint, bee balm, St. John’s wort and calendula, and vegetables,...