Healing While Black Podcast

In this episode, we explore the ways that engaging in farming can open up opportunities for local Black Farmers committed to making positive change across the Black diaspora. 

In this episode, Misty and Quiana have conversations with participants of ECO City Farm’s Incubator Farm Program, Issac Zama of Amba Farmers voice as well as Phillipe and Ginnette Jean from SOFGI Connection. They each share their experience establishing thei...

In this episode, we have a conversation about the sense of empowerment and agency we can gain through learning to grow our own food, even with sometimes limited space and resources. Quiana and Misty speak with a special guest, Skye Ellis, who is a beginning farmer in ECO City Farm’s Growing Urban Farms and Farmers Program. Skye speaks about her experience learning to grow food for her own sustenance and the resourcefulness she is g...

In this episode, we have a conversation about how being connected to the land and healthy food systems can support healing and well-being for the Black community. 

Quiana and Misty speak with special guests, Dr. Chemine Castor and Camille Hall, who are both members of ECO City Farm’s Growing Urban Farms and Farmers Program.

Dr. Castor and Camille share their unique perspectives as Black women farmers and about the great work they...

Four part mini-series teaser presented by Healing While Black Podcast in collaboration with ECO City Farms. 

About ECO City Farms & The Beginning Farmer Education Program:

ECO City Farms is a nonprofit urban teaching and learning farm in Prince George’s County that grows great food, farms and farmers in ways that protect, restore and sustain the natural environment and the health of local communities. Working with area children, ...

In this episode, we are in conversation with Martin X Henson, community organizer and activist, speaker, and executive director of The Black Men Engagement Network (BMEN). We talk with Martin about the unique struggles Black men face in a world that abuses and limits and new work being done to create space for Black men to heal and build in community with each other while shifting society's narrative about Black men. 

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In this episode, we welcome the beautiful, Thérèse Cator, who is a mother, healer, leadership and embodiment coach, storyteller and founder of Embodied Black Girl. Thérèse helps us engage with some of the wisdom of our ancestors through exploring inter-generational trauma and healing and what it means for Black people to decolonize ourselves in mind and body.  

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We are back for Season Two! In this episode Quiana and Misty joined the Brown University community for a live conversation about their previous experiences as Black, first-generation college, low-income students. They also explored what it feels and looks like to cope, heal and be in community as the U.S. grapples with its deep history of racial oppression amidst a global pandemic.

This episode was sponsored by the Brown Center f...