Through Africulture, and our growing partner Carter Farms, we grow and educate on the principles, practices, plants and people of African descent that have contributed to agriculture. We are developing a concept we refer to as growing and eating for your ethnic type model of agriculture that seeks to see how feeding the African genome with traditional African vegetables and it’s positive health effects on the human body.
We are exploring numerous theories with the crops we grow, the chefs we work with and the institutions we provide produce for, to create a new narrative and more important tangible solutions around food insecurity and how it really appears and how to make an effective difference in the larger food system that’s a complete 360 from the traditional purview. This research we are looking to embark on will strengthen the concept of culturally appropriate foods that will be nutritionally appropriate for people of African descent.
This season we will be growing about 50-60 different ethnic crops from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia at Carter Farms and are getting nutritional testing of the edible portions of the crops, to compare with more traditional American market staple produce.
