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 Vision
The vision for FarmaSIS is to create a community built on the idea of each sister who graduates to go teach ten other sisters, who then go and teach another ten. The system would continuously replicate itself until the idea of self-sufficient farming once again became ubiquitous within the Black community.
Join the Mission to Create 10,000 Black Female Farmers
What are they saying?
Carmen Tisdale, Class of 2016
Gabrielle Gillie, Class of 2023
Gwen Preston, Class of 2022
Who is FarmaSis 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
Want to learn more about FarmaSis?
Join our FREE monthly virtual meetings. Leave your email address below to be added to the email list for updates and other events for the
FarmaSis Program.
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:
Educate, Inspire, and Train 10,000 Black females to grow food in their own space
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
The Program Includes:
Pre and Post tests
9-week program. Each class is 2 hours and includes; information, health minutes w/stretching, prayer/meditation, and plant-based meal
Introductions to Female Trailblazers
Field trips, health seminars, and other events will be recommended, not required
Group photo
T-shirt
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.
The next FarmaSis Program beginning
April 1, 2024 - June 10, 2024
CLASS IS NOW FULL
To Learn more about Bonita Clemons and the programs she offers please visit: bonitaclemons.com
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