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Why have a pay what you want share for Black, Indigenous and People of color?

Offering a pay what you want share is a small effort to build community, to contribute to our collective health and rest and to exist outside of current systems.

This is not a charitable act. This is an offering. It’s a reminder that we will always be cared for. It is also a small step towards an imagined future. A future outside of colonialist capitalism. A future rooted in community care.

Through public support and grants I hope to have these shares fully paid for! Know that I will be taken care of and feeding the community I see myself in gives my farmwork energy and purpose.

You can really pay what you want. That means you can always donate more at a different time if you want to support the project. Visit the donation page or venmo @serena-milne-2.

Checkout under ‘BIPOC share’ in the store to pay any amount you would like. Or use discount code BLKNBRWN for 20% off anything else in the store. Please feel comfortable to choose whichever share you would like!

This is part of a hope to build community. I am slowly learning to receive help and hope there can be much more involvement in future seasons to come! Visit the support page to be involved in other ways if interested.

Who is eligible receive a pay what you want share?

There is no vetting process to receive a share. Again this is a gift. Please know that it is my intention to greatly serve and prioritize Black femmes and trans folks. This is available to all Black people, and folks who experience marginalization and racial violence under the reign of white supremacy.

If you are very light skinned, white passing or a white person from a historically marginalized ethnic group I would love to have a deeper conversation before you sign up. Race is constructed so these lines are of course harmful but we live in a racialized world and in order to prioritize those most impacted by these systems these shares are intended for those with a melanated racialized lived experience. That being said, I know that these systems have harmed you and your people and I am happy to work with you to receive a share and would love to chat deeper with you about it!

I use the terms BIPOC and Black and Brown sometimes but understand that these terms are limiting and not encapsulating. Being of Black and Japanese descent I am excited to grow historically Black crops as well as Japanese and Asian diaspora foods. I am mixed, Black, Japanese and queer. I understand that terms often don’t encapsulate our human identities and are often rooted in anti-Blackness. So I use BIPOC at this time to be brief but know that it is not the term I will use forever. Again this for those who do not outwardly benefit and are directly marginalized as a result of white supremacy.

You are loved.