FAMUly Roots Fest 2022

2001 West Orange Avenue,Tallahassee FL 32310

12 November, 2022

Description

The National Black Food & Justice Alliance (NBFJA) and Florida A&M University (FAMU) are celebrating the launch of the Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology with a family-friendly food and farm festival open to the greater Tallahassee community to be held Saturday, November 12, 2022 at the FAMU Community Garden located at 2001 W Orange Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32310. Free to the general public, festivities include food and garden workshops, the screening of Follow the Food by Tabia Lisenbee-Parker, and games and activities for the whole family. Food vendors include Fat Boi-s BBQ, HemLade Vegan Cafe, and the Juice Bar Miami. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn more about the inaugural agroecology center and upcoming programs at FAMU. Named after local land stewards and champions of sustainable agriculture, Lola Hampton and Frank Pinder, the center will provide an interdisciplinary space, a think tank, where Black farmers and underserved small farmer voices, needs, ideas, challenges, strategies are discussed together with scholarship and research to promote relevant changes and policy recommendations as a part of the solutions. The center will also develop local maps for food infrastructure and unearthing, recording, and preserving the food culture and foodways of Black, indigenous, and underserved farmers. The result will enable the dissemination of learning from the insights and brilliance of our ancestors, elders, and scholars, to carry forward intergenerational, agricultural exchange of knowledge critical to our resilience and survival today and into the future. Celebrations of the Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology launch will start at 1:00PM and end at 6:30PM.