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Seattle urban farmer building non-profit to help fight food insecurity

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So I guess my goal, what I really want and what would feel successful to me is taking away that stigma of what black and brown people feel like they deserve.

CBS
Dec 9, 2022

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Shanelle Donaldson West is an urban farmer, food preservationist, and food justice advocate. She co-founded Percussion Farms, to reconnect people of color to the land and their right to healthy lives. “I think there’s this weird relationship with produce that’s very steeped in white supremacist culture, where you only eat good healthy things if you’re rich and white,” Shanelle admits.

The org is working to undo racism and other oppressions that prevent access to nutrition and healthy spaces for people of color. “I discovered very quickly that it’s competitive to get into urban farming and it’s very very siloed and it’s very white, it’s very privileged and I hated that”. So Shanelle, along with co-founder Molly Feist started Percussion Farms where they do everything from growing food and donating to people in need to classes and education for the community.

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