This Sunday, from 4 pm-7 pm, iEat Green will be celebrating OktoberFest with Slow Food North Shore at the newly opened, Old Tappen Brewing Company. Slow Food will be providing the delicious nibbles, and the brewery will be providing the flights!   Owners Brent and Matt will discuss the business of local beer making. I hope you can join us!

Tickets can be purchased online, or at the door! This is a dog friendly event, so bring along your best friend!

My guests this week on the Progressive Radio Network are Eric Jackson, the co-founder of Black Yield Institute, and Lee Jordan, Black Yield Institute’s Community Organizer.

Eric is an organizer, educator, and filmmaker, humbly serving as the visionary of Black Yield Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a movement toward Black Land and Food Sovereignty in Baltimore, addressing a myriad of issues, including food inequities. Currently, he and his team, are committed to a 1.25 acre, urban agriculture operation, while building a cooperatively-owned grocery store in South Baltimore. The Black Yield Institute conducts Black-led research, facilitates political education, and organizes a community action network. Eric is the recipient of numerous awards and a public speaker who has presented hundreds of addresses and workshops to diverse groups about food sovereignty, building power, and establishing strong organizations to address complex social issues, specific to people of African Descent. He is affirmed in and secured this work through the love of his family and friends, especially the brilliance of his Queen, Diara, and four children, Oryan, Erian, Amir, & Kamau! Eric will be presenting in a few weeks at the upcoming Farm Based Education Conference in Baltimore.

Lee is an organizer, mentor, and entrepreneur.  Lee began working in the community early on, as a mentor, starting in middle school. He continued to grow into roles of leadership, becoming the team captain of successful men’s varsity basketball teams at both the high school and collegiate levels. Off the court, he was outspoken towards issues in his community, while spending his summers counseling at a local community center in East Baltimore. Continuing as a mentor, Lee carried his thirst to be involved over to his college platform at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he worked with surrounding recreation centers and schools of all levels, educating them on the benefits of a higher education. After graduating with a Bachelor in Philosophy, and a minor in Computer Science, Lee successfully launched his own business, Qualitees (a custom apparel company), while continuing his work in mentoring. In 2018, he joined the movement toward Black Land and Food Sovereignty and the fight against food issues in Baltimore.

I hope you can listen in live, as we talk about the important issues of food sovereignty and access to land in black communities.

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Bhavani 

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