#040: Green Things Work
About this Episode
Starting a business isn't easy, even if this episodes guest makes it look that way. What started off as a classroom assignment during her undergrad time at FAMU, blossomed into a thriving holistic plant-based food brand here in DC. Kendra Hazel of Green Things Work focuses on creating colorful and nutrient-dense foods at various pop-ups and catering events across the city. It's not uncommon to see Kendra collaborating with edible activist alumni such as Chef Lauren Van Der Pool and the City Blossoms organization. Keep your eyes and ears on this one, she's making a splash here in the DC food space. This won't be the last time you hear of Kendra Hazel.
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Y Cooking Class information here.
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Xavier's Top Recommended Reads for Black Food Organizers and Advocates:
- Black Rice by Judith A. Carney
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
- Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malinda Patrice Some
- Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and the Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malinda Patrice Some
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
- Land Justice: Re-imaging Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States
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- Freedom Farmers: Agriculture Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Dr. Monica M. White
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
- As in the Heart, So in the Earth : Reversing the Desertification of the Soul and the Soil by Pierre Rabhi
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#142: Protecting Her Family's Farmland from Loss
Sweet July, featuring Brittney Bell Surrat: https://sweetjuly.com/editorial/to-save-her-familys-land-this-communications-professional-became-a-farmer/