Episode 20: Rasheed Hislop – Interest Farms

Pay attention as Rasheed Hislop, a Grasp Composter, presents you his finest suggestions for small-scale vermicomposting. Get your worm bins prepared!

Hear about how this Brooklyn-raised farmer’s grandparents, within the Hudson Valley and in Trinidad and Tobago, instilled in him an curiosity in meals manufacturing by the use of gardening, fishing and cooking from scratch. 

Rasheed talks about his work supporting farmers, first with city farmers and neighborhood gardeners via NYC Parks GreenThumb and now with farmers in California’s Central Valley, notably Black, indigenous and farmers of coloration, via Group Alliance with Household Farmers and African American Farmers of California. He additionally will get into the racial fairness and planning work being achieved behind the scenes at nonprofits like CAFF.  (Plus, that is your probability to make plans to attend, just about or in individual, the CAFF convention, developing Feb. 27 to March 3, 2022!)

Be taught in regards to the Black Zocalo cooperative’s efforts to show about rising meals, planting native vegetation and fostering farm-related companies, together with Rosalba Lopez Ramirez’s (Rasheed’s spouse’s) Dau Butter skincare line and Rasheed’s seed manufacturing for Truelove Seeds. All of that is finally to create a motion towards a Black and Indigenous-owned land-based studying heart.

Additionally put in your listening queue Rasheed’s “Farming in Coloration” podcast, highlighting the work of his BIPOC farming associates and creating an archive for Black Zocalo’s work.