Agraria_Journal_WINTER_2022

AGRARIA JOURNAL 2022 13 staff, and residents of our Five Rivers bioregion. Partnerships with area nonprofits, Central State University Extension’s Beginning Farmer Incubator graduates, local schools, regional universities, Agraria’s Black Farming Network (BFN), and Regenerative Farming Fellows (RFF) will help shift the food system toward a regional agrarian model that generates deeper community engagement, supports local food producers and neighborhood farmers markets, works with medical providers to fill “produce prescriptions” and, overall, increases access to affordable fresh produce. Inspired by Carver’s Jesup Wagon journeys, Carver Farm folk are committed to modeling and teaching regenerative agricultural practices, promoting social justice and food sovereignty via equitable land access and stewardship, and increasing access to healthy food. With Carver’s blessing, we seek right relationship with the Earth and all its inhabitants. To learn more about Carver, register for our educators’ workshop, “Seeds, Soil and Soul,” on January 14, 2023. See details in the Calendar on page 50. To learn more about the George Washington Carver Farm, see article on page 34. To support the Carver Farm, please contact April Wolford at awolford@agrariacenter.org or Tia Stuart, director of BIPOC Initiatives, at tstuart@agrariacenter.org . Omop é Carter Daboiku, a storyteller, writer, and educator is Agraria’s Story and Media Artist and Farm Manager of Edgemont Solar Garden in Dayton, Ohio. RICHARD BRENT Regenerative agriculture pioneer George Washington Carver was the subject of an illustration by Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Richard Brent during the 1930s. AMY HARPER KELLY HAGER Regenerative Farmer Fellow Alicia Chereton, above, planted seedlings on the George Washington Carver Farm last spring. Farm manager Amanda Hernandez led efforts on the Carver Farm to produce a bountiful fall harvest of daikon and Swiss chard. AMY HARPER