Food Culture Collective x HEAL Food Alliance
Radical Nourishment is a podcast featuring stories of food communities across the U.S. that are growing power as they reclaim sovereignty in ways big and small. Co-created by Food Culture Collective and HEAL Food Alliance, two organizations involved with food sovereignty and land justice work in the U.S. Listen to some of my favorite episodes from the season here!
A Lesson From the Leaves
Reporter + Producer
I’ve always heard that you grow through grief, so I sat with the soil and mirrored the earth's cycles. I sat with the trees, the falling leaves, and the wind to help me remember. That endings are endings, but they can also seed new beginnings. This is an intimate audio documentary that features a conversation with my younger sister about our relationship with grief, loss, and nature. Interspersed between our words are archival sounds from Wendy Williams, Gil Bailey, music from Beres Hammond and Dorothy Ashby, and poems from Lucille Clifton.
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Suggested Reading + Watch List
The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton - Marina Magloire
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering - Marina Magloire
The Book of Light - Lucille Clifton
A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry - Camille T. Dungy
Multimedia
Seeding the Blues
Reporter + Producer
Indigofera is at the root of a fruitful friendship between three land stewards and natural dyers in the DMV area. Sun English Jr., Kenya Miles, and Rosa Chang walk us through the spiritual, medicinal, and historical elements of indigo dyeing. In this episode, we discuss how caring for this plant helps us connect to our ancestors and the soil through craft and stewardship.
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