Braiding Seeds Fellowship
Honor and respect to our ancestral grandmothers who braided seeds and promise into their hair before being forced onto transatlantic slave ships. They believed, against odds, that we, their descendants would exist to inherit, plant, and pass on that seed.
The Braiding Seeds Fellowship was founded by Soul Fire Farm Institute, in partnership with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, and it carries on the legacy of the braided seeds by providing BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, /or People of Color) beginning farmers with resources, professional development, and mentorship to support their livelihood on land.
Fellows in the five prior cohorts are engaged in land-based work across the southeast and northeast, along certain corridors of the Underground Railroad and the Great Migration. We are working to bridge north-south and legacy-returning generations of farmers.
The Braiding Seeds Fellowship is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID (EIN) 46-1323531.
Application Information Session: August 13th, 3:00pm-4:30pm EST
Application Closes: September 25th, 2026 Due by 11:59 PM EST
