Welcome to Black Thumb Farm!

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Black Thumb Farm is a nonprofit urban farm and gathering space dedicated to empowering BIPOC youth and community through land based programming, growing culturally sustaining foods and flowers, and providing healing access to vital green space for the San Fernando Valley. We center BIPOC voices and experiences in our pursuit of land, seed, and food sovereignty. We work to be in right relation with Indigenous peoples as visitors on unceded Tataviam, Tongva, and Chumash lands.

 

We envision a deeply interconnected world where our youth and communities exercise communal sovereignty over land, seed, and food systems, and live with dignity, beauty, and joy.

We grow teens' connection to the natural world, nourish their passions, and empower them to advocate for a sustainable future for themselves and their communities as we seed our way toward food sovereignty. We aim to give them a hand up so that they can recognize their own power and step into it.

 

We accomplish this through 5 unique, land-based programs conducted at our farm. Growing fruits, veggies, and cut flowers at our farm introduces our youth to multiple skill sets and sectors of agriculture.