Kicking off Black Futures Month 2023 with a Community Day at Kōkua Learning Farm
We started our annual observance of Black History / Black Futures Month on January 28 with our partners at Kōkua Learning Farm, a project of Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation.
Our vision of an abundant and just future brings us to connect our community with the land through lending our time and energy to ʻāina projects and learning about and supporting efforts to increase food security in Hawaiʻi, restore loʻi and fresh water sources, and return land to kānaka Hawaiʻi.
Our keiki and ʻohana helped care for food plants and harvested cassava, an starchy plant important for cooks across our diaspora. Community members shared their own stories and connections to cassava, along with recipes for fufu, yuca frita, and more. Some community members finished the day working with textiles in the indigo bath, learning about the medicinal and spiritual properties of that plant and its long history in Africa and in the diaspora.
Photos: Vivir Photography