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Heirloom Praxis
Black Food & Farm AI Working Group

AI belongs in the hands of people growing our future.

Join a developing community of Black farmers, growers, food entrepreneurs, and food-system builders exploring practical ways to use artificial intelligence to strengthen our farms, businesses, organizations, and communities — while protecting our knowledge, autonomy, and ownership.

Status: Forming now. This is an interest list: no meetings or dates are set yet, and signing up commits you to nothing.

What the group will do

Growing the future of Black agriculture with intelligence, ownership, and community

  • Community conversations about AI opportunities and risks
  • Hands-on agricultural AI demonstrations
  • Shared learning and technology literacy
  • Practical farm and food-business problem-solving
  • Peer collaboration and resource sharing
  • Opportunities to help shape future agricultural tools
  • Exploring locally governed and community-owned technology

As things take shape, people on the interest list may be invited to discussions, workshops, collaborative projects or pilots. Signing up is free, and it carries no obligation to buy anything from Heirloom Praxis.

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Who it is for

Black and Afro-Indigenous food and farm leadership, and the people who back it

The group centers Black and Afro-Indigenous agricultural leadership and community benefit. Nobody is asked to state their identity to take part: describe your work in your own words, and that is enough.
  • Urban and rural farmers, market and community gardeners
  • Microgreens, mushroom, agroforestry and permaculture growers
  • Food entrepreneurs, processors, chefs and value-added producers
  • Distributors, market operators and CSA organizers
  • Cooperative, land trust and food sovereignty organizers
  • Agricultural educators and youth workforce leaders
  • Researchers, students and technical people who want to help
  • Farm support organizations, funders and institutional partners
Join the interest list

Two minutes, and only the first part is required

Tell us who you are and what you would like AI to help with. Everything else is optional.
Which best describes your work?

Choose as many as fit.

What would you like AI to help you with?

Choose up to 3 priorities for now.

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Your experience with AI so faroptional

A sentence or two. Please don't include confidential business records, protected cultural knowledge, or sensitive personal information.

What would you like to do next?optional

Choose any. None of these signs you up for anything else.

Would you be open to helping?optional

Hosting, teaching, collaborating, sponsoring or organizing.

Staying in touch optional — both start unticked
What happens to what you share

Plainly, before you send it

  • It is stored in the Heirloom Praxis database, which is hosted by Supabase. It is used to organize the working group and to suggest tools that fit, and is read only by the Heirloom Praxis team.
  • It is not sold, rented or shared — not with partner organizations, event organizers, or other projects in the Heirloom ecosystem — and it is not sent to any AI model.
  • Joining the working group’s list is separate from general updates and from asking for a personal follow-up. Each is its own choice, off until you tick it, and you can withdraw any of them from the link in our confirmation email.
  • A confirmation email is sent through our email service, Resend. You can ask us to delete everything about you at any time.

An independent initiative

The Black Food & Farm AI Working Group is run by Heirloom Praxis. If you reached this page from an event or a partner’s link, that organization has not endorsed it and does not receive your details.