Black Nickel

New Year New Service At Our DC Rooftop Garden - https://mailchi.mp/aa77d76c48c6/black-people-have-a-plan-now-5750160

New Year New Service At Our DC Rooftop Garden This program gives fundraising & marketing support for the redevelopment of community gardens, implementing a “Harvest 2 Use” series of workshops, and community adoption of our “Black Nickel Online Market”. Black Nickel is testing this program with Hustlaz 2 Harvesters through their developm...

The Garden Welcomes Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy!! - https://mailchi.mp/f1c6b0856295/black-people-have-a-plan-now-5704972

The Garden Welcomes Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy!! This program gives fundraising & marketing support for the redevelopment of community gardens, implementing a “Harvest 2 Use” series of workshops, and community adoption of our “Black Nickel Online Market”. Black Nickel is testing this program with Hustlaz 2 Harvesters through their developm...

Georgetown Law Students are in the GARDEN TOMORROW! - https://mailchi.mp/f8ebdb78f2f6/black-people-have-a-plan-now-5685340

You have to be aggressive when it comes to uplifting your community! We are going to get approved for 10 grants before the end of this year.

Help support and get the word out about this wonderful cause, if you know anyone in the DMV have them volunteer at:

www.blacknickel.org

Black Nickel & H2H has just been awarded with another grant!

www.BlackNickel.org to volunteer now!

We had over 25+ volunteers this past Saturday and we need some more help. Our growing dome is being built the week of June 7th so we have about 3-4 weeks to finish preparing the space for construction. Please share this post, DM us, or register to volunteer at the link in our bio!

We are excited to announce that & has been awarded a Growing Dome. This growing dome will be able to provide produce year round to the community, and add an aesthetic to our grow space that will help Ward 7 increase their appreciation for agriculture. Our main purpose is solving food disparities in communities of color while healing the community through agriculture.

We’d like to thank Growing Spaces for awarding us with this grant and agreeing to build out a 40k+ growing dome right in the middle of Ward 7, Washington, DC. Please share with your family, friends, and community about the first growing dome in D.C. to garner additional support throughout the DMV!!

Check out the new grant we were awarded!! Also Sign Up To Volunteer This Saturday, Washington, DC! -

https://growingspaces.com/urban-farming-grant-winners-2021/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Organic&utm_Campaign=Newsletter&utm_content=Grantwinners&inf_contact_key=0aa83a086024cabe01fa7016c1fe0a087e470d92b8b75168d98a0b8cac0e9c09

Sign Up To Volunteer This Saturday, Washington, DC! - https://mailchi.mp/e83ff39fae1f/black-people-have-a-plan-now-5521660

Our very first public volunteer day was a success, we had over 40 people come out to do major volunteer work at Dix Street Community Garden!!! (Last slide for everything we moved out the garden for pick up)

This Saturday we are starting our weekly volunteer days. You’ll be learning a lot of different skills related to agriculture specifically from our partners . As we develop the garden to house a very big development, our team asks that you get involved by registering your time to volunteer across multiple dates.

🚨NEW GRANT NEWS COMING SOON🚨

Sign Up To Volunteer This Weekend! - https://mailchi.mp/6e6d9666a4c9/black-people-have-a-plan-now-5516072

Dix Street Garden has been a beacon of hope in the Ward 7 community. Our partners (H2H) started this garden with the intention of transforming land and lives. In the midst of COVID-19 the garden suffered, in the latter part of 2020 our team at Black Nickel saw this space as an opportunity to help H2H finish what they started while understanding how to replicate this redevelopment/sustainability model in different communities.

These angles are the front of Dix Street Garden which has over 5000 square feet of grow space.

Hustlaz 2 Harvesters, an urban agriculture enterprise created to revitalize their community and grow second chances to returning citizens through urban agriculture, and social enterprise. 60 years of combined agriculture experience, and over 20+ certifications.

Our partnership is truly organic and our vision for communities of color are parallel in their ex*****on. Black Nickel believes that with this partnership we can build out an agriculture model that can be replicated in multiple cities to come.

Looking forward to this partnership at our markets!!

TGT provides consumers of Black Culture a place to buy & sell rare, vintage, or discounted items. This platform will enable anyone to become a seller; giving that old box of shirts that’s been collecting dust for years an immediate value.

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Civil Review Board Highlights Black Nickel! - https://mailchi.mp/8ab51ef05623/black-people-have-a-plan-now-3771824

https://youtu.be/LUemZ1gzVQk?t=270

Let’s make the change we want to see!

DC Farmers Market Confronted With Lack of Black Vendors - Modern Farmer The major farmers market network in Washington, DC has more than 150 vendors selling at 33 locations. But when the network, called Freshfarm, posted on

{SHARE} In 1930, Grant Wood gave us the painting “American Gothic”. At that same time, 1 in 7 farmers were black and owned 14% of all farms in the United States. Today we only own 2%, Black Nickel wants to change narrative and encourage our community to revitalize the concept of community agriculture. Implementing workshops that help you use agriculture to save your nickels. Check our website NOW and see how you can help our efforts in revitalizing our first agricultural space.

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{SHARE} In 1930, Grant Wood gave us the painting “American Gothic”. At that same time, 1 in 7 farmers were black and owned 14% of all farms in the United States. Today we only own 2%, Black Nickel wants to change narrative and encourage our community to revitalize the concept of community agriculture. Implementing workshops that help you use agriculture to save your nickels. Check our website NOW and see how you can help our efforts in revitalizing our first agricultural space.

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Ag & Stem Director:
Ag Partners:

{LISTEN} Help Uplift Our Communities! - https://mailchi.mp/5614ed5ece84/listen-help-uplift-our-communities-3657020

Listen to our podcast "SpooksByTheDoor" where we talk about how to uplift communities of color and how to make an impact!

Happy Black History Month and welcome to a brand new season of The Spooks by the Door. We are starting with two episodes back to back!⁣⁣
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In our first episode we sit with two former DC politicos, Amena Ross () and Andrew Lee () of to talk about our new presidential administration and our own Black Agenda. We explore what we want, how to get it and how we can bring black folks from across the aisle to one political path.⁣⁣
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In our second Spookspod, Baka sits with wellness instructor and entrepreneur, Brandon Copeland () of to discuss the intersections of identity, wellness and black entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur calls into convo many things and your identity shapes how you do business and how your business is principled. As the conversation of new black business heats up, we dive in to what it means to keep it all in balance - for self and for the community.⁣⁣
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⁣ is brought to you in partnership with Black Nickel, a DC based non profit supporting educational programming and progressive economic strategies in black communities. Learn more about Black Nickel at BlackNickel.org⁣
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Based on USDA’s NASS 2020 statistics, In the last 10 years, new & beginning white farmers make up 95% of all 900k+ U.S. producers. African Americans only make up 1.7% of that market, which makes sense because African Americans make up less than 2% of all farmers in the United States.

The agriculture industry is growing at an alarming rate! Black Nickel needs your support to build out a sustainable model for African American communities. This will provide local farmers with a space to sell their fresh produce instead of being discriminated, which will create a solution for food deserts in African American communities nationwide.

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🗣Change the community they said! Our organization has a plan that can uplift communities of color around the world. Our first project is in the heart of Washington, DC, Ward 7.

We are asking that you take this journey with us to change your community, and offer resources that were never tapped in to before. Visit our website in the bio for more information!

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🗣Change the community they said! Our organization has a plan that can uplift communities of color around the world. Our first project is in the heart of Washington, DC, Ward 7.

We are asking that you take this journey with us to change your community, and offer resources that were never tapped in to before. Visit our website in the bio for more information!

🎨👨🏾‍💻 .dc
Agriculture Partners: Hustlaz 2 Harvesters