About
The S.A.C.
Throughout the country, sustainable farmers are using innovative techniques to produce and distribute food. Food is now being grown on rooftops, in community gardens and anywhere there is space. Agricultural innovation runs across the food spectrum: from aquaponics to food hubs.
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These new models are changing the way food is grown and distributed and it seems the sky is the limit when it comes to projects to increase locally grown, sustainably produced food.
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Coast to coast, Agricultural Entrepreneurs are working toward food independence both for city dwellers and rural residents. However, chronic poverty and underemployment can be directly linked to our diets that cause chronic disease, high obesity rates and many health problems that accompany them. These types of physical debilities impact Our Communities disproportionately due primarily to our anemic access to quality produce, grains, and meats.
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Farming is no longer confined to rural America; food is now being cultivated in dense urban areas anywhere there is space. Urban farmers can be found on city rooftops, in small backyard plots, and in vacant lots growing food for their communities.
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To remedy this contradiction, we invite Our People, and all who believe in a sustainable future, to link with local community organizers and pool their resources, expertise, and labor, to educate, organize and mobilize Our Communities’ residents for the Sustainable Agricultural Commune [SAC].
We define our Sustainable Agricultural Commune community gardens as: A portion of city-owned property used to grow fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, wood products, native or ornamental plants for non-commercial purposes, i.e. where there is no exchange of goods for monetary value.
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Sustainable agriculture is a way of growing or raising food, including animals, in an ecologically and ethically responsible manner using practices that protect the environment, safeguard human health, are humane to farm animals, and provides fair treatment to workers. Eating “sustainably” means eating food that is grown or raised according to these principles. Eating sustainably provides numerous personal health benefits, including decreased exposure to harmful substances such as pesticides, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and unhealthful food additives, and the potential to increase consumption of certain nutrients and antioxidants.
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Finally, eating sustainably means supporting a more environmentally and socially responsible food system. It is within our power to embrace sustainable urban farming as a viable alternative at the outset, while simultaneously pooling our resources to build our own agricultural institutions to provide access to healthy, affordable, sustainable food from the farm for the surrounding community.
Our Vision
Our mission is doing groundbreaking work engaging individuals, community centers, non-profits, businesses and vacant lots through city governments to bring a collective effort to restore our urban ecologies and create beautiful public spaces throughout the country. From hands-on experiential learning to more formal workshops and gardening programs, our goal is to lead the way for a new understanding of how, by working together, we can create a healthier community for all.
By bringing urban agriculture, food skills education and healthy food access to our people we will improve the environmental landscape and strengthen the ecosystems of the local neighborhoods. Through partnerships with the community, schools, neighborhood youth and their families we are starting a grassroots movement for food security that will transform the health and well-being of our community for future generations.​
