Events

2026 Events

• (January 15, 2026, in-person) 2nd Annual Urban Agriculture Conference at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

• (February 3, 2026, virtual) Food for Literacy for All:  Becoming the Imagineers of a Sustainable Future, University of Michigan (view the recording:  https://youtu.be/8hqEwHeObR8?si=eAHtDVM95kHfnHW5)

• (February 10, 2026), Affrilachian Narratives:  Storytelling from the Appalachian Diaspora, Natural World and Relationships, Fairmont State University

• (March 2 - 10, 2026, Scholar-in-Residence) Dillard University, Ray Charles Program in Food and African American Material Culture, New Orleans, Louisiana (view the recording:  https://youtu.be/mEledkXGuJ0?si=JmM1OqY74fqzavRA)

• (March 6 - 8, 2026), Kentucky Black Farmers Conference, Richmond, Kentucky 

• (March 6 - 7, 2026) UJAMAA Cooperative Farming Alliance Conference:  Seeds & Culture in Rural and Urban Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia

• (March 7, 2026) 19th Annual Rooting DC, Washington, District of Columbia

• (March 11 - 13, 2026) LABASH Landscape Architecture Bash Conference and class presentation at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 

• (March 14, 2026) Gammon House Griot Series:  Harriet Tubman, Ohio's Connection to the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War, Springfield, Ohio

• (April 4, 2026) 3rd Annual State of Black Food Summit, Louisville, Kentucky 

• (April 23, 2026) Fairmont State University, Affrilachian Narrative Course:  Work, Labor, and Civil Rights

• (April 25, 2026)  Birthday and Butterflies, Washington, District of Columbia

• (May 16, 2026) Garden Party, Arlington, Virginia

• (June 15 - 18, 2026, virtual) Greene Scholars Program, Stanford University, Stanford, California

• (September 24 - 28, 2026, in-person) Slow Food's Terrra Madre Salon del Gusto in Torino, Italy

• (October TBD, in-person), BUGS Black Urban Gardeners & Farmers Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana

• (October TBD, in-person) Mid-Atlantic Black Farmers Conference 

• (November, in-person) NABS National Association of Black Storytellers Festival, Rhode Island

• (December 10, 2026) Slow Food's Terra Madre Day TBD