FarmaSis Participants outside in the garden

About FarmaSis

FarmaSIS is an all-Black, all-female, all-organic farming team founded in 2016 by Bonita Clemons. The core tenets are nourishing solidarity among Black women, cultivating health and wellness, and promoting economic development. Bonita, who holds a master’s degree in public health and is also studied in business, economics, and nutrition, realized that Black Americans were moving farther and farther away from their agrarian roots and very few women and young people were realizing and gravitating toward the benefits of farming. She felt compelled to figure out a way to change this pattern and thus, FarmaSIS was born.

FarmaSis Mission & Vision

This mission of the FarmaSis Experience is Collaborate, cultivate, and create commerce among Black women

Join the Vision to Influence 1 million Black Women to grow their own food

What are they saying?

Carmen Tisdale, Class of 2016

Gabrielle Gillie, Class of 2023

Gwen Preston, Class of 2022

Who is The FarmaSis Experience for?

It's for black women

who want to:

Learn the basics of gardening
Use food as medicine
Be healthy
Work collectively as women
Make money through Agriculture

The Making of a FarmaSis

FarmaSis was created to help ensure that black women remember and recall the miracle essence of producing and providing nourishing food for themselves, their families, and their communities. In addition, we seek to re-activate or amplify the unique spirit of leadership resident in every black woman.

As a member of FarmaSis, you can expect to gain a mixture of benefits listed below. Of course, not everyone can or will harvest every possible benefit but be assured that, as you participate, you’ll gather enough of them to dramatically change your life for the better forever.

Our goal:

Join the Mission to Influence 1 million Black Women to grow their own food

3 Pillars

Collective Work, Health and Wellness through nature, Economic Development

You must complete the survey to see if this program aligns with your life’s goals.

Tuition must be paid in full before class begins

Participants are expected to attend 85% of the classes

FarmaSis Participants posing in their FarmaSis white shirts

The FarmaSis Experience Includes:

Pre and Post tests
Each class is 2 hours and includes; information, health minutes w/stretching, prayer/meditation, and a plant-based meal
Introductions to Female Trailblazers
Field trips, health seminars, and other events will be recommended, not required
Group photo
T-shirt

Weekday classes will begin at 5:30

Weekend classes will be 9-12

The walks will be at 8am

Benefits

The Joy of joining an alliance of creative, curious, dynamic Sisters
Feel and experience your natural leadership capacity intensify and arise – you’ll learn to “Show up” in new, more powerful ways.
Learn the beauty of how nature works for, with, and in you with realistic detail (i.e.
science)
Recall and rekindle the magic of exquisite self-care for yourself and your loved ones as is needed
Learn to love growing and preparing nutrient-dense food.
Expand your circle by meeting and visiting visionary growers’ entrepreneurs and visionaries from across the country and around the world
Join our growing network that has access to world-class experts in agri-business, general business, and the arts,
Make life-long friends
Fall in love again with YOUR life,
Improve your health by no less than a quantum leap
Find your Way as a “servant leader” through the many fun, but intense volunteer opportunities we make available to every FarmaSis class.
Achieve a new, sustainable level of personal and family-scale sufficiency by completing a practical project with our guidance.