The Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance tracks own old or rare seed varieties and supports communities of color to grow culturally relevant foods
The walls of Bonnetta Adeeb’s basement in a suburb of Washington DC are lined with album covers, African art, musical instruments and – a more recent addition – shelves filled with hundreds of boxes of carefully labeled seeds.
At the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Adeeb and her students at Steam Onward – a non-profit engaging underserved young people in gardening projects – were looking for ways to support their communities.
