Lex Wiley
Lessons of Da Land is Lex Wiley's creation of a community-based and land-based program that centers African diasporic connections to food and land through community agriculture, food sovereignty, land justice, and restorative storytelling. Through learning our histories during Fall 2021, our learning cohort is understanding the current context of food apartheid in Philadelphia and learning the ancestral tools for food and land sovereignty by working with community partners and analyzing narratives by our ancestors. Lex's hope for this project is to generate knowledge that will stimulate healing with the land and share the tools and expertise for liberation and sovereignty in a culturally significant way to us and defined by us.
Awarded Grants
2021
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Lex's project, Lessons of Da Land, is a community-based program that centers African diasporic connections to food and land through community agriculture, food sovereignty, land justice, and restorative storytelling. Together with the community, Lex will lead the exploration of the histories of community agriculture and land-based movements through narratives and community activities to understand the dynamics causing food apartheid and the strategies ancestors used for socio-ecological liberation. Lex hopes that through understanding their relationship to land beyond the context of slavery by working with Black-owned land spaces, Black folks can redefine their land stories and remember their methods of creating power and sovereignty.