This episode explores how a Black led urban farming collective in Birmingham is transforming abandoned neighborhood lots into a community rooted food system that blends land stewardship, cultural connection, and cooperative practice. It focuses on: (1) the cooperative’s land strategy, which has grown from a backyard garden into 11 farmed lots across Fountain Heights, acquired through neighbor relationships and city processes, with a long term goal of activating 119 lots to feed the neighborhood; (2) the collective of farmers, apprentices, and volunteers who steward the land, drawing on shared cultural experiences, a commitment to healing through the Earth, and a strong ethic of mutual care that supports both individual farm businesses and the collaborative as a whole; (3) the business model, where an LLC with fiscal sponsorship operates a joint C ...