Black owned farms make up less than 2 percent of all farms in the United States.
According to a recent report, Black farmers lost 80 percent of their farmland from 1910 to 2007, often because they lacked access to loans or insurance needed to sustain their businesses.
The report mentions the “long and well-documented history of discrimination against Black farmers by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).”
It goes on to state that “The unequal administration of government farm support programs, crucial to protecting farmers from an inherently risky enterprise, has had a profound impact on rural communities of color.”
It is clear that that Black farmers need help now more than ever. We also need fresh produce they provide. Here is a list of Black owned farms and food gardens that you can support.
Black Owned Farms
Alabama
Darden Bridgeforth & Sons (Tanner, AL)
Bain Home Garden (Rehoboth, AL)
Binford Farms (Athens, AL)
Datus Henry Industries (Birmingham, AL )
Fountain Heights Farms (Birmingham, AL)
Hawkins Homestead Farm (Kinsey, AL)
Arizona
Millbrook Urban Farms (Phoenix, AZ )
Patagonia Flower Farms (Patagonia, AZ)
Project Rootz Farm (Phoenix, AZ)
California
African American Farmers of California demo farm (Fresno, CA)
Farms to Grow, Inc. (Oakland, CA)
Corky’s Nuts (Northern CA)
Scott Family Farms (Fresno, CA)
Rancho de Rodney (Fresno, CA)
Connecticut
Root Life (New Haven, CT)
The DMV Area (DC, MD, VA)
DC
Good Sense Farm (Washington, DC)
Three Part Harmony (Washington, DC)
Soilful City (Washington, DC)
Sylvanaqua Farms (Washington, DC/Norfolk, VA)
MD
Cherry Hill Urban Garden (Cherry Hill, MD)
Deep Roots Farm (Brandywine, MD)
Dodo Farms (Brookeville, MD)
Four Mother’s Farm (Princess Anne, MD)
Jenny’s Market (Friendship, MD)
The Bladensburg Farm (Riverdale, MD)
Tha Flower Factory (Baltimore, MD)
VA
Haynie Farms (Reedville, VA)
Berrily Urban (Northern VA)
Botanical Bites Provisions (Fredericksburg, VA)
Boyd Farms (Nathalie VA)
Broadrock Community Garden (Richmond, VA)
Browntown Farms (Warfield, VA)
Brunswick Agriculture and Cultural Model Homesteading & Equestrian Center (Warfield , VA)
Carter Family Farm (Unionville, VA)
Cusheeba Earth: A Soil Culture Farm (Onley, VA)
Fitrah Farms (Central VA)
Go Greens Farms (Suffolk, VA)
Haynie Farm (Reedville, VA)
Mighty Thundercloud Edible Forest (Birdsnest, VA)
Mor-Cannabis (Scottsburg, VA)
Vanguard Ranch (Gordonsville, VA)
Verde Hemp Farms (Surry County, VA)
Florida
Harvest Blessing Garden (Jacksonville, FL)
Fisher Farms (Jonesville, FL)
Griffin Organic Poultry (Harthorne, FL)
Infinite Zion Roots Farms (Apopka, FL)
Ital Life Farm (Tampa, FL)
Marlow Farms (Kissimmee, FL)
Seed Mail Seed (West Palm Beach, FL)
Smarter By Nature LLC (Tallahassee, FL)
Georgia
Swanson Family Farm (Hampton, GA)
Southeastern African-American Farmers Organic Network (Atlanta, GA)
The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm (Royston, GA)
Semente Farm (Lithonia, GA)
Patchwork City Farms (Atlanta, GA)
Local Lands (Dublin, GA)
Miller City Farm (Fairburn, GA)
Nature’s Candy Farm (Atlanta, GA)
Noble Honey Company (Atlanta, GA)
Restoration Estates Farms (Haddock, GA)
Semente Farm (Lithonia, GA)
Tea Brew Farm (Central Georgia)
The Green Toad Hemp Farm (Metter, GA)
Truly Living Well (Atlanta, GA)
Illinois
AM Lewis Farms (Matteson, IL )
Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Living (Pembroke Township, IL)
Chi City Foods ( Chicago, IL)
Dusable City Ancestral Winery & Vineyards and Dusable City Botanical Farms
Roots & Vine Produce and Cafe (Chicago, IL)
Salem Hemp Kings (Salem, IL)
Urban Growers Collective (Chicago, IL)
Your Bountiful Harvest (Chicago, IL)
Kentucky
The Russellville Urban Gardening Project (Russellville KY)
Barbour Farm (Canmer, KY)
Ballew Estates (Madison Co, Kentucky)
Cleav’s Family Market Farm (Bonnieville, KY)
Slak Market Farm (Lexington, KY)
Louisiana
Armstrong Farms (Bastrop, LA)
Cryer’s Family Produce (Mount Hermon, LA)
Grow Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge, LA)
Laketilly Acres (New Orleans, LA)
Mama Isis Farm & Market (Baton Rouge, LA)
Oko Vue Produce Co (New Orleans, LA)
Provost Farm (Iberia Parish, LA)
Massachusetts
Agric Organics Urban Farming (Springfield, MA)
Urban Farming Institute of Boston (Mattapan, MA)
Maine
Annabessacook Farm (Winthrop, Maine)
Michigan
D-TownFarm (Detroit, MI)
Mississipi
34th Street Wholistic Gardens & Education Center (Gulfport, MS )
Francis Flowers & Herbs Farm(Pickens, MS)
John H. Moody Farm (Soso, MS)
Morris Farms (Mound Bayou, MS)
RD & S Farm (Brandon, MS)
Field Masters Produce (Tylerton, MS)
Foot Print Farms (Jackson, MS)
Missouri
Shire Gate Farm (Owensville, MO)
New Hampshire
New England Sweetwater Farm and Distillery (Winchester, NH)
New Jersey
Free Haven Farms (Lawnside, NJ)
Hawk Mountain Earth Center (Newark, NJ )
Hyah Heights (Newark, NJ )
Jerzey Buzz (Newark, NJ )
Morris Gbolo’s World Crop Farms (Vineland, NJ)
Ward’s Farm (Salem, NJ)
New York
Rise & Root Farm (Chester, NY)
East New York Farms (Brooklyn, NY)
Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest (Brooklyn, NY)
Soul Fire Farm (Petersburg, NY)
North Carolina
Mother’s Finest Urban Farms (Winston Salem, NC)
Abanitu Farm (Roxboro, NC)
Fourtee Acres (Enfield, NC)
First Fruits Farm (Louisburg, NC)
Yellow Mountain Garden (Franklin, NC)
Pine Knot Farms (Hillsborough, NC)
Savage Farms (Durham, NC)
Green Heffa Farms (Liberty, NC)
Ohio
Rid-All Green Partnership (Cleveland, OH)
Oregon
Mudbone Grown (Portland, OR)
Rainshadow Organics (Sisters, OR)
Pennsylvania
Mill Creek Farm (Philadelphia, PA)
The Philadelphia Urban Creators (Philadelphia, PA)
South Carolina
Fresh Future Farm (North Charleston, SC)
Gullah Farmers Cooperative (St. Helena Island, SC)
Morning Glory Homestead Farm (St. Helena Island, SC)
Rare Variety Farms (Columbia, SC)
SCF Organic Farms (Sumter, SC)
Texas
We Over Me Farm (Dallas, TX)
Bonton Farms (Dallas, TX)
Berkshire Farms Winery (Wilmer, TX )
Caney Creek Ranch (Oakwood, TX )
Fresh Life Organics (Houston, TX)
Lee Lover’s Clover Honey (Houston,TX)
Lettuce Live Urban Farm (Missouri City, TX)
Long Walk Spring Farm (New Boston, TX)
Uncommon Bees (Jasper, TX)
Vermont
Clemmons Family Farm (Charlotteville, VT)
Strafford Creamery (Strafford, VT)
Washington State
Sky Island Farm (Humptulips, WA)
Clean Greens (Seattle, WA)
International
Mwanaka Fresh Farm Foods (London)
Special thanks to Ark Republic, who’s Black Farmers Index was used to update portions of this list!
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Your forgetting Mudbone Grown in Oregon and Rainshadow Organics in Oregon as well!
I’ve been searching for a black or POC or Native American owned flour mill to source flour for my vegan pizzas. I didn’t think it would be such a hard task, but i’ve Found nothing so far. I’m in South Carolina and would love to stay regional, but at this point, I’d be comforted to find anything out there!!!
Hey we have another Black owned farmer in Atlanta called Atlanta Harvest in Jonesboro Ga
The Nation of Islam has 1600 acres of farmland in Brownwood GA. It’s called Muhammad Farms.
Please include it on your wonderful list.
Greetings Fam.; The Atlanta Mosque Community of Imam W. D. Muhammed Community In Atlanta, GA has a thriving farm In Macon, Georgia as well,,
Fields Farm Johns island sc
You are forgetting Mccrory Arkansas Webb’s Produce Farms And Market LLC. I’m the first African American Certified Produce Farmer in MY county (Woodruff County) I farm 77 acres. My main crop is Irish Potatoes and tomatoes.
I didn’t know that. I’ll pass on his info on to my Woodruff County friends and family. Where can we find your potatoes? We will drive over and buy some. Blessings to you and your family.
Beautiful how to order fresh produce from you farmer’s it would be wonderful
Should change the title to “A list”… I have worked over 20 locations from homesteads to urban to orchards to commercial to nursery and none of those are mentioned. What qualified a farmer to be on this “ultimate” list?
Hello. This is the largest and most up to date list available publicly thus far. We’re glad that you know many more Black owned locations and would be more than happy to add them.
Hello, there is a black owned family farm in Las Cruces New Mexico called SawaSawa Organic Farm.
2406 Wildwind Rd.
Las Cruces, NM 88007
They have a facebook page and IG page under the same name. Please add them to tour list. Thanks
https://www.facebook.com/plantationparkheightsurbanfarm/
Please include Clemmons Family Farm and Strafford Creamery in Vermont. Apparently there are 15 others that are black owned in Vermont but I can’t seem to find the names.
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Hilltop Urban Gardens, Tacoma, WA!
Are there any Canadian farms or plant nurseries?
Are there any black owned farms in Tennessee?
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This brings tears to my eyes because this is a whole large community that is not identified!
How about envisioning baking your produce deliverable or some place we can have access to your produce! This is absolutely great God Bless!
Any black owned farms known in New Jersey???
Poole Farms will launch once the NJ Legislation is approved for industrial Hemp.
“AgVocate Farms” owned by mother & daughter team: Taliba Holliday & Tiana North in Bridgeton, NJ
Awesome!!
The Nation of Islam has a 1,600 acre farm in Georgia and another farm in Michigan. Both supply food throughout the country on a consistent basis.
In the International section it would have been nice to see the UK’s most successful black farmer Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones. He owns the farm and brand The Black Farmer and sells in most major supermarkets across the country.
Come visit or check us out Foxfire Ranch in Waterford, Mississippi http://www.foxfireranch.com
This list is grossly incomplete! No Black farms in Mississippi? Foolishness!
A more constructive comment would have included the names of the farms you speak of.
Thanks FoxFire!
Vertical Life Farms should be added to the list of Black Owned Farms in Dallas…
Vertical Life Farms
3014 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75226
(844) 388-3276 https://g.co/kgs/k2GPA9
Unless there is some other Black Owned Farm under the name “Jacob’s Family Farm”, the link for Jacob’s Family farm in this article is a white owned farm in Illinois.
Vertical Life Farms in Dallas is showing as closed. 7/7/2020.
Are there any black own natural farms in Denver Co
Well, as expected, the Detroit’s web site hasn’t been updated since 2017. So much for that!
INTERESTED, IN BUYING ALL BLACK, FOOD. TOILETRIES,ETC.
Don’t forget WILDSEED Farm in the Hudson Valley! http://www.wildseedcommunity.org/
There is also the Fresno Freedom School in Fresno, CA. You covered their farm in May!
https://www.facebook.com/pg/FresnoFreedomSchool
https://www.fresnofreedomschool.com/
Although I knew it was a long-shot, I was hoping that there was something in New England.
If not, start one.
I’m Rhode Island
What about Virginia? There is Vanguard Farm and there are many others. Please update the list. How about some info on resources to get a farm started? Loans, grants, classes, tours.
Free Haven Farms (Lawnside, NJ) &
Soul Fire Farm (NY)
Both offer educational classes!??
I’ve only read abt them.
Excellent information. Please keep me posted. Thank you. Blessings and Guidance.
Such important information. Thank you for highlighting the brave Black MEN AND WOMEN farmers who together continue this noble profession. I’m assuming nothing or very little existed before you took on this project of cataloging Black farms/businesses, so thank you. So many times people are critical of others’ efforts but for obvious reasons don’t take these time consuming, uncompensated tasks on themselves. Please know you are appreciated and keep up the excellent work!
Absolutely Beautiful! Please keep up the good works… Very happy to see many African American Farmers… didn’t have no idea… I will most definitely be buying.
I’m glad to see this site I have question though where you all supply and how would common folks purchase crops from your farmers?
How do we get Grow Baton Rouge added to the list, we have a fleet of Mobile Market vehicles, community gardens and urban farms!
I see someone has already mentioned Hilltop Urban Gardens in Tacoma, WA. Are you just no longer updating this article?
Really great info, but I didn’t see Black Oaks farm in Illinois.
It’s called Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Living. https://blackoakscenter.blog/
Are any of these farms a part of wwoof.net ? It’s an international organization where people can learn about organic farming hands on by liviving with a host farmer for a set amount of time. I would love to learn about organic farming from the experts! Like Will Allen in Milwaukee Wisconsin with Growing Power. This man won the MacArthur Ferguson genius grant in 2008 for his work in sustainable farming. Unfortunately his farm was dissolved in 2017. So do you know of any programs like wwoof or something similar that might be specific to black farmers?
Are there any black owned farms in North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham area)?
Yes there is a black owned farm in Goldsboro, NC right outside the RDU area. They are called the Little Washington Group: here is their email:
littlewashingtongg@gmail.com
And they are on Instagram and Facebook.
Quaintly Farm in Providence, RI
Any in northeast Iowa?
Regarding NE Iowa: You could try contacting Oneota Co-op in Decorah, IA. They purchase local produce and if they don’t know, can put you in touch with those who would know for Winneshiek and surrounding counties. oneotacoop dot com
Thank you for this list.
I’d like to add Yisrael Family Farm in Sacramento, CA.
https://yisraelfamilyfarmshop.net/
Love Fed Initiative -New Haven CT
Root Life LLC -New Haven CT
Please add Fresh Water Gardens in Decatur Georgia 30034
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Families Anchored In Total Harmony “FAITH” CDC is located at 656 Carolina Street, Gary, IN 46402. We strive to support our local community with fresh and organic produce and raw honey. Faith Farms has expanded from a few vegetable plots to growing year round.
There are over 500 black owned farms in California alone. African American Farmers of California Association started almost 20 years ago. AAFCA organization has compiled the most comprehensive list of Black farmers in the state. Their meetings are open to the public too. I suspect we are under-counting or missing MANY farms. For example,
I stumbled upon these Black-led organizations supporting black farmers in California:
Fresno Freedom School
West Fresno Family Resource Center
The Butterfly Movement
Communities United Restoring Mother Earth
On the website of the amazing Soul Fire Farm in NY (mentioned above), the following are well-established Black-led farming organizations (some of which are mentioned in the comments):
Federation of Southern Cooperatives: http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/
Black Belt Justice Center: http://blackbeltjustice.org/
Black Urban Growers http://blackurbangrowers.org/
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network: http://www.detroitblackfoodsecurity.org
Land Loss Prevention Project: http://landloss.org/
Southern Grassroots Economies Project: http://sgeproject.org/
Cooperation Jackson: http://www.cooperationjackson.org/
Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living: http://www.blackoakscenter.org/
Truly Living Well http://trulylivingwell.com/
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement https://mxgm.org/
It is likely on us to spearhead a reliable accounting of this legacy.
It’s called Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Living. https://blackoakscenter.blog/
Young female farmers in ..Athens Georgia
There are more Black owned farms in North Carolina!
Fourtee Acres in Enfield NC https://www.facebook.com/fourteeacresfarm/
4 Ever Vista Farms, also in Enfield – email: 4evervistafarms@gmail.com
With some many Black own farms in America, why don’t we have a grocery chain stores selling product grown from our farmer. Jews, Mexican, Indian, Oriental every other ethnic group provides for their people. For black people to spend as much money as we do, we should support our people. We need to replace the thought that has been feed to us forever, that”black people can’t do anything right, they cheat each other and don’t forget they steal,” are just a few of the stereotypes that has been drummed into our very souls. 400 years being taught that anyone who looks like me can’t be trusted. It’s time we unite and build up our own, there’s more than enough black money to take over our choices.
Some more to add to the DMV list!
DOLDC – Dreaming Out Loud DC is doing phenomenal work – and offering CSAs currently.
It seems like their most current information is available via instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/doldc/?hl=en
Also, Deep Roots Farm in Maryland, but delivering to DC area.
https://deeprootsfarm.us/csa
Q, I’m in Boston MA and also involved in urban agriculture here. Would you mind please sharing your contact information. Check us out on facebook at Farmers Collaborative https://www.facebook.com/farmcollab/. Thanks!
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Hi everyone! There is a lot of great information here, between the original post and the additional comments that followed. So I’m pressing my luck to see what else is out there!
I’ve been going to an Amish farmers’ market for a while now. I do love them, but I’ve been trying to invest more in my community. But I can’t travel out to Philly (I’m in the Poconos) every time my family and I need food.
So are there any farmers’ markets, nurseries, farms, etc? in the NEPA (Northeastern Pennsylvania) area?
Any information about the question would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!