KQED Youth Takeover: Four Stewards at Work Healing Their Land and Communities

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The percentage of Black-owned farms in the U.S. has dropped from a peak of 14% in the 1920s to just 2% today. In California, less than 1% of land is owned by Indigenous people. As part of KQED’s Youth Takeover week Marin Academy junior Finn Does brings together a panel of local Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers who all purchased farmland during the pandemic to help their communities connect and thrive in relationship to the earth. Forum talks about the BIPOC land stewardship movement and nurturing ancestral roots. Guests: Pandora Thomas, Afro-Indigenous land steward and founder, EARTHseed Farm in Sebastopol, CA. Thomas played a leading role in founding the Black Permaculture Network, a platform where Afro-Indigenous people share practices. Nikola Alexandre, co-founder and stewardship lead, Shelterwood Collective in Sonoma County, CA Maya Harjo, farmer, Heron Shadow, a farm for Indigenous refuge and learning in Sonoma, CA, operated by the Cultural Conservancy, a Native-led SF organization Myles Lennon, environmental anthropologist; dean’s assistant professor of environment & society and anthropology, Brown University; board secretary, Shelterwood Collective Finn Does, junior, Marin Academy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Forum comes from Rancho La Puerta, a wellness resort in Baja, California, just an hour from San Diego.
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0:44.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:00.6	This is the last day of youth takeover here at KQED.
1:04.1	We've been working with high school students from across the Bay Area to produce shows about topics that they're passionate about.
1:10.6	Today I'm joining the studio by Finn Doze, a junior at Marin Academy.
1:14.3	Hey, Finn, what's this show about?
1:16.0	It's about a movement of black, queer, and indigenous farmers who are stewarding the land
1:20.6	in Northern California and nurturing their ancestral roots.
1:23.9	It's about climate justice, rematriation, and permaculture.
1:28.9	That's all coming up next.
1:51.6	After this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
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