Join the TN Black Farmers Coalition

Thanks to Humanities Tennessee, we are starting to see accelerated synergy and progress in this coalition.

In the year 1793, Black free citizens of the United States began farming. In the year 1816, the Black free citizens in Tennessee began farming. The known earliest farm specific deeds in Tennessee date back to the year 1870.

Now in the 21st century, the descendants of small and black farmers in West, Middle, and East Tennessee are linking with one another as a coalition to partner and take care of each other in agribusiness. As of year 2022, the USDA census recorded approximately 1,500 Black-Afro-Indigenous, 1250 Hispanic-Latino-Spanish, and 329 Native Indigenous farmers in the State of Tennessee on 218,022 acres.

This project is a collaboration with Tennessee State University Agriculture, Moore Family Century Farm, Butler Farm, Zysis Garden, Water Bear Coop, and Capernaum Creek Farm. We take care of each other through education, mentoring, partnerships, and marketing to enable farmers to start and grow new and existing farms.

We create farm profiles for marketing, offer new farmer classes, host in-person gatherings, launch agribusiness partnerships, make referrals, distribute information on opportunities, and share lessons learned with fellow farmers.

If you know a Black farmer who would like to join or create a profile, please send a message through our "Let's Chat" tab OR "Subscribe Now" box at Home | Moore Family Farm.