Fresh Future Farm

Fresh Future Farm leverages unused city assets to create food and job opportunities that will transform the current food desert into a more self-reliant and robust community.

FFF is a Black-led nonprofit that disrupts food apartheid (access without control) while building community. Staffed by residents, the Farm is radical in its response to expressed and felt needs. We apply a multi-pronged strategy to address health, wealth and quality of life issues where marginalized people share power with us. We operate a natural farm and sliding scale USDA grocery store in a residential neighborhood. We offer natural gardening classes, youth tours, STEAM-based farm camps and cultural events steeped in justice, ethnobotany and culinary arts. Our John Egerton Prize-winning farm fortifies grassroots leadership, land justice, Black farmers and food entrepreneurship for equitable and regenerative food systems that feed livable communities.