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Ask An Agroforester: Land Access

In this episode, ASD's Emilie Tweardy interviews Ebonie Alexander of the Black Family Land Trust, and Zev Friedman of Cooperate WN. Together they discuss land access, historic precedent, equitable models, mutual aid and more in this edition of Ask An Agroforester. Ebonie Alexander is the Executive Director of the Black Family Land Trust, Inc. (https://www.bflt.org), Inc. The BFLT is a niche land trust and one of the nation’s only regional land trusts dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically underserved landowners’ land assets. Since joining the BFLT in 2009, Ebonie designed and implemented the African American Land Ethic and Wealth Retention and Asset Protection (WRAP) programs. Together these two programs have assisted landowners to retain family ownership and control of more than $12.5 million of their land assets and deployed more than $500,000 USDA-EQIP funding to landowners during the past five years. Ebonie currently serves on boards of the American Farmland Trust, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, the North Farm Stewardship Association and is an advisory group member of our SARE Agroforestry Regional Knowledge Exchange Project. A native of Maryland, Ebonie lives in rural Virginia on land that has been in her family for generations. She is a proud Virginian, avid reader and lover of history and grandmother of two. Ebonie can trace her family’s history in Virginia to the mid-1730’s. Zev has lived and worked since 2006 as a grassroots agroecology researcher and educator in southern Appalachia. He grew up in a patch of kudzu in Sylva, NC, received his B.S. in Human Ecology from the University of North Carolina Asheville in 2004, and has lived at Earthaven Ecovillage since 2012. Zev specializes in hands-on, transformational education in Permaculture and focuses on residential and community-based professional design and installation throughout Western North Carolina. Since founding Cooperate WNC (www.cooperatewnc.org), his main focus is now as Director of this regional mutual aid network that’s harnessing the power of cooperation to meet human needs and address our most pressing ecological and social challenges. Almost a decade of study with indigenous teacher Martín Prechtel was formative for Zev’s vision of how we might collectively regrow our own diverse indigenous lifeways through a combination of somatic healing, collectivism, and agroecological learning. Timestamps 0:00 - Welcome and Video Roadmap 05:30 - “But first.. A poll!” 05:55 - 2024 Season Recap 08:16 - Ebonie Alexander Intro 09:58 - Ebonie Begins “What is BFLT” 11:44 - “What do we do? And how do we do it?” 13:15 - Why we want you to keep your land 14:51 - What is a partition sale? 17:25 - Heirs Property and BFLT’s Mission 18:21 - “Make your land Human” 23:02 - Zev Friedman Intro 24:08 - Zev Begins “Returning the Commons to the People” 28:16 - What is Corporate WNC and its Mission? 32:42 - Zev’s experience in Agroforestry 35:32 - Cooperate WNC goals 42:26 - QuickFire Questions 42:59 - What is your favorite tool? 46:55 - What are the most stakeholders you’ve worked with at once? 52:37 - How do people begin to establish a cooperative land asset? 56:55 - What can we do to keep our small farms alive? 1:08:36 - Relationship between agroforestry as an agricultural practice and a movement to deconstruct individual ownership of property? 1:11:43 - What is the best way to go about reclaiming an heirs property? 1:15:31 - What are some resources that cover the topics discussed? 1:22:26 - Final Comments