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🌿✨ Introducing Ms. Avery Huff ✨🌿
Farmer. Herbalist. Teacher. Master Composter. Keeper of Memory.

In the 1st episode of 28 Days of Black Agriculture, Ms. Avery shares her journey of rooting into the Pacific Northwest while tracing the deeper roots of her ancestral story. From soil to spirit, she reminds us that the land is not just dirt beneath our feet; it is memory, medicine, and transformation.

Ms. Avery speaks to the radical beauty of Black agricultural futures ; futures grounded in joy, sovereignty, and remembrance. She invites us to see compost not as waste, but as transformation… and to see ourselves the same way.

If the soil could tell your story, what would it say? 🌍
Drop a 🌿 if you believe farming is sacred work.
Tag someone who needs to hear this conversation.

🌿✨ Introducing Ms. Avery Huff ✨🌿
Farmer. Herbalist. Teacher. Master Composter. Keeper of Memory.

In episode 1 of 28 Days in Black Agriculture, Ms. Avery shares her journey of rooting into the Pacific Northwest while tracing the deeper roots of her ancestral story. From soil to spirit, she reminds us that the land is not just dirt beneath our feet; it is memory, medicine, and transformation.

Ms. Avery speaks to the radical beauty of Black agricultural futures ; futures grounded in joy, sovereignty, and remembrance. She invites us to see compost not as waste, but as transformation… and to see ourselves the same way.

If the soil could tell your story, what would it say? 🌍
Drop a 🌿 if you believe farming is sacred work.
Tag someone who needs to hear this conversation.

Cotton was more than a crop.
More than a symbol of labor.
More than what history books dare to name.

Cotton is a herb of resistance.

Enslaved Black folks knew cotton as a plant ally. One that could interrupt forced reproduction, one that could stop the cycle of being bred for profit. Cotton root was used as a natural abortive, a quiet but radical refusal to have our bodies turned into factories for selling babies.

That knowledge was dangerous.
So it was buried.
Erased.
Rewritten as silence.

Cotton is empowering and dynamic, soft and deadly, just like us.
Its beauty is often dismissed because it tells the truth:
Black people have always been botanists, herbalists, strategists of survival.

This month, I’m honoring the plants that held us when the world would not.
Starting with cotton.

Soft does not mean weak.
Gentle does not mean compliant.
And survival has always been sacred.

Henry Blair was a 19th-century Black farmer, inventor, and agricultural innovator whose work reshaped how food was planted in the United States. Born in 1807 and working the land himself, Blair developed mechanical corn and cotton planters that dramatically improved planting efficiency. Reducing labor while increasing yield at a time when agriculture depended almost entirely on hand planting. In 1834 and 1836, he became only the second known Black person to receive U.S. patents, an extraordinary achievement during an era when most Black inventors were denied recognition and legal protection. Though he could not read or write, Blair’s deep, embodied knowledge of farming led to inventions rooted in lived experience, necessity, and ingenuity. His legacy reminds us that Black agricultural knowledge has long driven innovation, shaping food systems not from laboratories, but from the soil itself.

This story lives within the 28 Days in Black Agriculture archive; held, remembered, and carried forward as part of our collective agricultural lineage. 🌱⚙️🖤

🌿 Emma Dupree: The Little Medicine Thing

Born in rural North Carolina in 1897, Emma Dupree was a revered Black herbalist and community healer whose deep connection to the land guided her life’s work. Long known as “that little medicine thing” and later as a “granny woman,” Emma spent her youth wandering the woods and riverbanks, learning the wisdom of native plants and harvesting them with care.

Her home garden became a garden-grown pharmacy. Filled with mint, sassafras, mullein, catnip, rabbit to***co, and more; it’s where she made teas, tonics, and remedies for friends, family, and neighbors. Emma never turned anyone away, sharing her gifts freely and strengthening the healing traditions of her community.

Honored in her lifetime with awards like the Brown-Hudson Award and the North Carolina Heritage Award, Emma’s legacy continues to inspire herbalists and healers today. 🌱 Her story reminds us of the profound power of plant knowledge, service, and interconnection.

I’m so excited to share the launch of 28 Days in Black Agriculture 🌱🖤

This project was created as a living archive—one that holds stories, conversations, and historical context about what it truly means to be Black in agriculture. Beyond what’s often taught or remembered, this archive centers lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and the many ways Black people have always had a sacred relationship with the land.

For 28 days, we’ll be sharing a new story each day; through interviews, narratives, and reflections that highlight farmers, growers, herbalists, healers, educators, and land stewards who nourish communities and carry this work forward.

These stories don’t end when the month does. The archive will continue to live on our website and YouTube, growing over time as a space for learning, remembrance, and connection.

This is about honoring the past, holding the present, and planting seeds for the future. I’m grateful to everyone who trusted me with their stories, and to you for being here to listen, learn, and share.

Welcome to 28 Days in Black Agriculture. 👩🏽‍🌾🧑🏾‍🌾👨🏿‍🌾

Happy Black History Month 🖤

As a Black-led business, this month is not only about reflection, but about presence. We look forward to spending time in community listening, sharing, and uplifting the many stories of Black life in all its forms.

From land and food ways to healing, creativity, labor, joy, and legacy, we honor the everyday ways Black people continue to shape history, past, present, and future.

This month (and always), we gather with care, curiosity, and respect, celebrating where we come from and imagining where we’re going together.

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