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Rich Earth in Solidarity
These yard signs, created by Rich Earth’s graphic designer Briony Morrow-Cribbs, are available at the Bunker Farm stand in Dummerston, VT. Proceeds benefit The Root Social Justice Center.
Acting from a place of collective responsibility has always been at the core of Rich Earth’s work, as we come to understand the relationship between every human body and our local farms and rivers.
We are horrified by the violence enacted upon Black lives in this country, and the particular struggles of the past few months. We are grieved by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and David Mcatee, among others as well as the Black trans women who are murdered every year. They remind us of the many forms of racism that our communities face, from blatant police brutality to insidious white supremacy culture, from outright terrorism to banal, everyday infrastructural racism.
We hope this is a watershed moment for our communities to reckon with these interconnected struggles. We know this is the time to think like a watershed – to see the connections between upstream forces and downstream reactions, between every watery body that shares this land called America. The watersheds that connect our bodies remind us that we also have a responsibility to respond to this moment—according to our abilities.
We’re heartbroken. We’re pissed off. And we’re renewing our commitments to prioritizing equity, justice, and accountability in our work. In our aim to become better allies for racial justice, we are dedicated to:
- Revisiting the role that equity and justice play in our core values
- Creating equal employment opportunities now and into the future
- Supporting sanitation equity in the US and beyond, including the Container Based Sanitation Alliance
- Building groundwork for food justice in our communities, promoting policies and practices that enable nutrient sovereignty
- Listening, learning, and growing together in humility
We stand in support of all those working to forward environmental justice for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities. We are inspired by local organizing and hard work towards justice in Vermont, including:
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- Vermont Releaf Collective
- The Root Social Justice Center
- Out In The Open’s Mutual Aid Fund
- Susu Healing Collective’s BIPOC Land and Food Sovereignty Fund
