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We are committed to making each campaign community-led and focused, to ensure that actual social change occurs — not charity, not quick fixes, but real, lasting transformation led by the people who live it every day. We know that food apartheid is not an accident — it is the result of deliberate systems that push healthy, affordable, culturally relevant food out of reach for black and brown communities. “Farming For Freedom” meets the community where they are and moves us from food apartheid to food sovereignty — from being consumers of a broken system to becoming growers, stewards, and decision-makers of our own food future. We organize. We trained. We build power. We organize farmers, youth, and neighbors into committees and coalitions that create solutions to the issues that impact them most. We train the next generation of Farm & Land Stewards with the agricultural, scientific, and advocacy skills to reclaim the land and feed their communities. And we build power — intergenerational, cross-community power — to disrupt the existing food system and replace it with one rooted in justice, self-determination, and collective liberation. This is more than farming. This is freedom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7907569f07f5873db24089/07065da8-d866-43d0-a08d-4e151c82d852/IMG_1994.jpeg Organizing Campaigns - BIPOC Farmers, Youth and Community Organizing Committees Fighting food apartheid in Connecticut is not simply the work of one group of people, but instead of multiple generations of neighborhoods and farmers organizing and mobilizing for change. As farmers and youth activists learn about their food systems, they begin to apply a social justice and human rights lens to their world. Our activists form community organizing committees to create solutions to issues that impact them and their community. Farmers and youth are organizing their communities to take a hard look at the food we consume and how together they can reimagined the CT broken food system. As farmers and youth learn about people-led social justice movements in history and presently, they become activated to demand justice in their own lives and communities. Here are our current projects and stratergies to fight against food apartheid in CT: Advancing Markets for Producers: Industrial Hemp CT We are now recruiting farmers to commit 5 acres to grow hemp. Farmers who grow 5 acres of hemp in one or more of the '27–'29 growing seasons will receive: $9,166.67/year for the 5 acres of industrial hemp grown — just for participating Guaranteed buyer for your harvest Free hands-on training in hemp cultivation Conservation Planning from local Conservation Districts Shared equipment for seeding, harvesting & processing hemp Join a new collaboration of industrial hemp farmers to invigorate a farmer-powered industry Learn more The Venture Farming Institute The Venture Farming Institute (VFI) is a cohort-based agricultural training program for aspiring Farm & Land Stewards who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or Person of Color, and live in Connecticut & Rhode Island. VFI is an emerging educational and training program aiming to increase the number of underrepresented farmers in Connecticut & Rhode Island by providing: Online Training and Lectures from regional Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Industry Leaders Agricultural & Scientific Skill-Building Hands-on Farm Field Days Technical Support Organization of Inter-generational Network Expansion Instruction Grounding in Advocacy & Social Justice Learn more Urban Farmer Government Academy CALLING ALL URBAN FARMERS! Interested in understanding how local government affects your farm operations? Confused about local zoning? Learn new skills and network with others in this six-week online course. Topics include: Overview of municipal structures How laws are passed, CT-PA 490, and how it might apply to you Local zoning Municipal permitting process https://www.1freedom4all.org/home-top daily 0.75 2019-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7907569f07f5873db24089/1523926632813-8QM1X8L1967BKV3TGT5D/BK+YEM++-+2+students Home Top https://www.1freedom4all.org/our-team daily 0.75 2026-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7907569f07f5873db24089/1571202502185-L4DK6WTC5H02NM2ZG3AA/Screenshot_2019-10-16+Liz+War+%28+onehandedhooker%29+%E2%80%A2+Instagram+photos+and+videos%283%29.jpg Our Team - Elizabeth Guerra (she/her/ella) Executive Director & C0-Founder Elizabeth is a Latina social justice activist from Queens, NY, with over fourteen years of experience building community power through the vehicles of community organizing, volunteer recruitment and engagement, and popular education at non-profits and unions throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Elizabeth has technical expertise in collective bargaining, multi-layered campaign development, women’s rights, power building, reproductive, economic and worker justice. Elizabeth graduated with her BS from SUNY Stony Brook University with departmental honors in History and obtained her Masters in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Elizabeth is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), Wellness Coach, and Full Spectrum Doula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7907569f07f5873db24089/1614579542708-WD69G30YFDCQOW5LW93G/1_Freedom_Hector-01.jpg Our Team - Hector “Freedom” Gerardo (he/him) Programs Director & Co-Founder Hector Gerardo has dedicated his life to organizing youth and teaching them to stand in their own power. For close to twenty years, Hector has created spaces where the voices of youth are elevated and used to catalyze change. Hector comes from a long line of activists -- his ancestors fought for the rights of working class people and people of African descent in the Dominican Republic for decades – and continues that legacy of activism in the United States. Having worked with nonprofits and unions throughout the country in several different capacities, Hector has gathered the knowledge necessary to help lead organizations to identify their strength and create lasting change. Hector created numerous multi-generational coalitions that were used successfully to win campaigns, and continued to use said coalitions to advance other political, legislative, and social objectives. Lastly, Hector has a proven record of creating and implementing multi-year strategic plans that have supported the vision of organizations while also ensuring that the plan was tangible and transparent for all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7907569f07f5873db24089/b217a455-ff16-47f3-8900-994224268b07/Image+9-16-26+at+3.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Our Team - Dylan Darius Mehri (he/him) Outreach & Hemp Education Coordinator Dylan grew up in Washington D.C. and comes to this work as a farmer and educator whose focus is land-based learning and agroecological food & medicine growing and production. Following years of work with social entrepreneurships in Bogotá & Medellín, Colombia, in 2020, Dylan transitioned to grow food to address social, economic, and environmental challenges. While working on farms in the D.C. area, he earned a master’s degree in Urban Agriculture from the University of the District of Columbia in 2022 and then launched Joon Gardens in 2023 to cultivate foods, medicines & community in his family’s home in Newtown, CT. Through Joon Gardens, Dylan has planted dozens of varieties of native fruit & medicinal trees and produced fresh & value added products for the local community. 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