Soil Sister Community Project

407 Gearing Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15210

11 September, 2021

Description

PANAF Community Advocacy Event PANAF is collaborating with Soil Sisters Plant Nursery for a community advocacy event on Saturday, September 11 at Beltzhoover Community Center from 10:00am-1:00pm. The event is FREE! Soil Sisters is a Black-owned plant nursery in Pittsburgh that aims to address the needs of local communities that are lacking resources, knowledge, and accessibility to fresh produce and seedlings. They are shortening the distance between the grower and the produce that reach your table. By helping all growers, local restaurants, backyard gardeners, school gardens and more to access fresh food and fighting against food apartheid! The event with Soil Sisters will be helping them clear out the community garden space that they utilize for camps and other projects. You must be a Pitt student to RSVP for the event. If you do not use your Pitt email your ticket can be cancelled. If you have any questions please feel free to email [email protected]. Pan African Graduate & Professional Student Association serves all graduate and professional students at Pitt whose identities lie within Black America, the African Continent, the Caribbean, West Indies, Latin America, and the entire Pan African Diaspora. PANAF role is to coordinate efforts that improve the quality of cross-cultural/intersectional relationships and education on behalf of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQIA+, and allies in higher education. We provide social, educational and political programming to promote community awareness while protecting students on campus within the Pan-African diaspora. PANAF works to build bridges with Black scholars across schools and departments, while infusing campus-wide activities that support interdisciplinary connections and outward exposure into the city of Pittsburgh. At the same time, we exist to ensure that all Black graduate and professional students at Pitt have an organization directly receptive to their needs in the absence of a school and/or departmental level organization. Follow is on Facebook @panafgpsa and IG @panaf_atpitt!