On this week's episode, I speak with farmer Chris Bolden-Newsome, co-director of the Sankofa Community Farm in West Philadelphia, PA. Chris uses sustainable agriculture and spiritual practices as means to liberation, decolonization, and cultural recovery for people in diaspora – especially the African Diaspora. In this conversation, we discuss:

• Farming in cooperation with spirit
• Natural agriculture
• Living in communion with the soil 
• Okra as a food that connects and restores all people of the African Diaspora
• Diaspora as scattering of seeds
• The relationship between colonizing plants and colonizing people
• The difference between feeding the soil rather and feeding the plants
• Why the South is important in the recovery of African and black cultures 
and traditions
• The expansiveness of African and Catholic cosmologies
• The spirit in the plants of the African Diaspora