The sense of loss from the pandemic prompted a California couple to start a farm that provides learning experiences geared toward communities of color that they say have historically been deprived of the benefits of nature.
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Rodriguez and Vang also lost their son during the pandemic. The sense of loss prompted them to launch the “There are lots of ways in which we’ve been severed from our relationship to the land through these histories. Then, internal colonization in many ways has also kind of dissuaded us from a connection to lands, along with structures of white supremacy,” she said. “I think that there is this notion in our culture as Filipinos that going back to the land is a backward step, that moving forward in one’s life is kind of modernizing and getting further and further away from the land.
“We are trying to do the best we can to learn about regenerative approaches to farming, thinking about not just what the soil can give, but how we can leave the soil better than what we found it,” Rodriguez said. “In California, so much of the land — including the land here — has just been extracted from. Industrial agriculture has done that.”
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