Food sovereignty through ancestral seeds, California
California, United States
Agriculture, Community, EducationTH
Three Feathers Farm
California, United States
BusinessThree Feathers Farm is a certified 5 acre organic farm located in Morgan Hill, CA. For the past 4 years, Our work is both personal and collective. It stems from a desire to heal intergenerational disconnection from land and food, and to build pathways for others in our communities to reclaim that connection. Beyond food production, we actively build community through farmer-to-farmer collaboration, particularly with other BIPOC-led farms and organizations across the East Bay and beyond. We create spaces to resource-share, support one another, and address the unique challenges faced by beginning farmers of color. This includes organizing community-building events such as supporting the farmer wellness days and farm-based music festivals, which bring together growers, community members, artists, and healers to celebrate, learn, and uplift one another.
Project story
Our Mission: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty Through Sacred Seeds
For generations, our ancestors have stewarded landrace corn varieties—seeds carrying the wisdom, resilience, and identity of our peoples. Even in diaspora, we believe it is our ancestral responsibility to protect and share these sacred crops with our communities.
Unlike genetically modified varieties, these traditional seeds thrive across diverse soils and climates, reflecting millennia of Indigenous and campesino knowledge. They offer unmatched nutrition, flavor, and cultural significance. In Mexico—corn's birthplace—a constitutional ban protects GM cultivation, rooted in the saying: "Sin maíz, no hay país" ("Without corn, there is no country"). This reflects a profound truth: corn is identity, medicine, and life itself.
By preserving these seeds here, we join a transnational movement defending food sovereignty and biodiversity. We're reimagining nourishment—restoring land, healing bodies, and reconnecting communities to ancestral foods.
Your support will:
Establish our farmer cooperative infrastructure
Aquire equipment for production of our project
Hire a grant writer to secure institutional funding
Develop culturally rooted branding and packaging
Launch community fundraising campaigns
Position us for larger grants like the USDA Value-Added Producer Grant
Together, we're building a sustainable, community-driven future rooted in our agricultural heritage.
Project updates
Team
Food sovereignty through ancestral seeds, California
California, United States
Agriculture, Community, EducationTH
Three Feathers Farm
California, United States
BusinessThree Feathers Farm is a certified 5 acre organic farm located in Morgan Hill, CA. For the past 4 years, Our work is both personal and collective. It stems from a desire to heal intergenerational disconnection from land and food, and to build pathways for others in our communities to reclaim that connection. Beyond food production, we actively build community through farmer-to-farmer collaboration, particularly with other BIPOC-led farms and organizations across the East Bay and beyond. We create spaces to resource-share, support one another, and address the unique challenges faced by beginning farmers of color. This includes organizing community-building events such as supporting the farmer wellness days and farm-based music festivals, which bring together growers, community members, artists, and healers to celebrate, learn, and uplift one another.
Project story
Our Mission: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty Through Sacred Seeds
For generations, our ancestors have stewarded landrace corn varieties—seeds carrying the wisdom, resilience, and identity of our peoples. Even in diaspora, we believe it is our ancestral responsibility to protect and share these sacred crops with our communities.
Unlike genetically modified varieties, these traditional seeds thrive across diverse soils and climates, reflecting millennia of Indigenous and campesino knowledge. They offer unmatched nutrition, flavor, and cultural significance. In Mexico—corn's birthplace—a constitutional ban protects GM cultivation, rooted in the saying: "Sin maíz, no hay país" ("Without corn, there is no country"). This reflects a profound truth: corn is identity, medicine, and life itself.
By preserving these seeds here, we join a transnational movement defending food sovereignty and biodiversity. We're reimagining nourishment—restoring land, healing bodies, and reconnecting communities to ancestral foods.
Your support will:
Establish our farmer cooperative infrastructure
Aquire equipment for production of our project
Hire a grant writer to secure institutional funding
Develop culturally rooted branding and packaging
Launch community fundraising campaigns
Position us for larger grants like the USDA Value-Added Producer Grant
Together, we're building a sustainable, community-driven future rooted in our agricultural heritage.
Project updates
Team
Location
California, United States