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Queer in Faith, Farming and Fashion💚🌱😘 We are the Founders of Good Ground Farm in Argyle, NY

Yes, this is what we wear on the farm, nothings better than dressing for the land that sustains you.

#BlackFarmers #QueerFarmers #NewYorkFarmers #Argyle

We Got A Farm! • Welcome to Good Ground!

We’re growing food, love, and legacy — reimagining what’s possible.

 #BlackFarmers #QueerFarmers #ThisIsGoodGround #EarthMonth #GrowWithUs

Good Ground is dedicated to cultivating food sovereignty, sustainability, and community building. Through regenerative agriculture and resource-sharing, we empower people to reconnect with the soil, grow where they are and build a just, more local food system.

Loved Ones On The Farm >

In New York and across the country, the work of reclaiming land, growing food, even just existing in the outdoors is tied to struggles against displacement and discrimination against Queer BIPOC bodies and minds but can we, just for a breath of time, focus on the joy, resilience and honor our ancestors left in each seed, each soil particle that we have ingested and inhaled? That in turn has never left our body, our bones, our song, our memory, our works?

How beautiful it is, how seen they must feel as we have not forgotten. We at Good Ground, on Good Ground are proud of that lineage, that silent generational wealth which is why it feels deeply intentional, loving and powerful to be Queer Farmers of Color sustaining and supporting Queer Farmers of Color.

Amara and the Ayni Farmily, @ayniherbfarm Thank you for building abundance rooted in culture, healing and peace. If you want to experience their works join their herbal CSA and pick up in Brooklyn @brooklynsupportedagriculture

In New York and across the country, the work of reclaiming land, growing food, even just existing in the outdoors is tied to struggles against displacement and discrimination against Queer BIPOC bodies and minds but can we, just for a breath of time, focus on the joy, resilience and honor our ancestors left in each seed, each soil particle that we have ingested and inhaled? That in turn has never left our body, our bones, our song, our memory, our works?

How beautiful it is, how seen they must feel as we have not forgotten. We at Good Ground, on Good Ground are proud of that lineage, that silent generational wealth which is why it feels deeply intentional, loving and powerful to be Queer Farmers of Color sustaining and supporting Queer Farmers of Color.

Amara and the Ayni Farmily, @ayniherbfarm Thank you for building abundance rooted in culture, healing and peace. If you want to experience their works join their herbal CSA and pick up in Brooklyn @brooklynsupportedagriculture

In New York and across the country, the work of reclaiming land, growing food, even just existing in the outdoors is tied to struggles against displacement and discrimination against Queer BIPOC bodies and minds but can we, just for a breath of time, focus on the joy, resilience and honor our ancestors left in each seed, each soil particle that we have ingested and inhaled? That in turn has never left our body, our bones, our song, our memory, our works?

How beautiful it is, how seen they must feel as we have not forgotten. We at Good Ground, on Good Ground are proud of that lineage, that silent generational wealth which is why it feels deeply intentional, loving and powerful to be Queer Farmers of Color sustaining and supporting Queer Farmers of Color.

Amara and the Ayni Farmily, @ayniherbfarm Thank you for building abundance rooted in culture, healing and peace. If you want to experience their works join their herbal CSA and pick up in Brooklyn @brooklynsupportedagriculture

In New York and across the country, the work of reclaiming land, growing food, even just existing in the outdoors is tied to struggles against displacement and discrimination against Queer BIPOC bodies and minds but can we, just for a breath of time, focus on the joy, resilience and honor our ancestors left in each seed, each soil particle that we have ingested and inhaled? That in turn has never left our body, our bones, our song, our memory, our works?

How beautiful it is, how seen they must feel as we have not forgotten. We at Good Ground, on Good Ground are proud of that lineage, that silent generational wealth which is why it feels deeply intentional, loving and powerful to be Queer Farmers of Color sustaining and supporting Queer Farmers of Color.

Amara and the Ayni Farmily, @ayniherbfarm Thank you for building abundance rooted in culture, healing and peace. If you want to experience their works join their herbal CSA and pick up in Brooklyn @brooklynsupportedagriculture

In New York and across the country, the work of reclaiming land, growing food, even just existing in the outdoors is tied to struggles against displacement and discrimination against Queer BIPOC bodies and minds but can we, just for a breath of time, focus on the joy, resilience and honor our ancestors left in each seed, each soil particle that we have ingested and inhaled? That in turn has never left our body, our bones, our song, our memory, our works?

How beautiful it is, how seen they must feel as we have not forgotten. We at Good Ground, on Good Ground are proud of that lineage, that silent generational wealth which is why it feels deeply intentional, loving and powerful to be Queer Farmers of Color sustaining and supporting Queer Farmers of Color.

Amara and the Ayni Farmily, @ayniherbfarm Thank you for building abundance rooted in culture, healing and peace. If you want to experience their works join their herbal CSA and pick up in Brooklyn @brooklynsupportedagriculture

In New York and across the country, the work of reclaiming land, growing food, even just existing in the outdoors is tied to struggles against displacement and discrimination against Queer BIPOC bodies and minds but can we, just for a breath of time, focus on the joy, resilience and honor our ancestors left in each seed, each soil particle that we have ingested and inhaled? That in turn has never left our body, our bones, our song, our memory, our works?

How beautiful it is, how seen they must feel as we have not forgotten. We at Good Ground, on Good Ground are proud of that lineage, that silent generational wealth which is why it feels deeply intentional, loving and powerful to be Queer Farmers of Color sustaining and supporting Queer Farmers of Color.

Amara and the Ayni Farmily, @ayniherbfarm Thank you for building abundance rooted in culture, healing and peace. If you want to experience their works join their herbal CSA and pick up in Brooklyn @brooklynsupportedagriculture

What did you miss?

We stopped waiting for access and started growing it.

We’re focused on cultural sustainability over here, recalling memory with each crop! Drop your flag in the comments if you know callaloo! 🌱🇯🇲

#Callaloo #Caribbean #CulturallyRelevant #HeritageCrops
#Jamaican

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

They said a small town would shrink us
but we’ve just rooted deeply in the peace of places people often overlook.
lapping pond water,
germinating herbs,
90 degree high tunnel,
dandelions in our hands
cow eye gazing,
and
pepper seeds in the wheel barrel (not the kind you may think 😆)

you probably wouldn’t call this a life… it’s the “too good to be true” one we’ve dreamed of made reality

Trust The Process. Trust Local.

Laying with nature processing processed foods, noticing how nutritional value is so far removed from the process due to profit that it no longer feels like part of the process of eating and asking at what point did our health stop being part of the process?

The Truth: Most foods are processed in some way but not all foods are processed heavily or artificially so read your labels, buy local and stay curious.

We’re trading emails for fresh air today ✌🏽🌱

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

Black Women can move mountains

We disassembled and removed an 80 foot long bench, over 85 pieces of lumber, hundreds of screws/ nails, removed 25 cinder blocks, over 30 steel pins, rolled back 31 yards of landscape fabric, broadforked the 80ft long bed, sifted/ laid out a portion of 5 yards of aged compost and bone meal and planted our first crops in THREE DAYS!!

With each removal, a prayer was said, a promise made, a dream actualized… and this is only the beginning.

We can’t be Good Ground without actually growing in the ground, right!!?! so it was time to make the shift.

From benches to beds (2.5 hours of work in 60 secs)

This 95-foot bench came down piece by piece, opening up our 25 x 96 tunnel middle bed for our first full season rooted in soil in Argyle. We got our soil tested two weeks ago, and now it’s all starting to feel real.

It’s messy, it’s a little scary, and it feels like the start of something big. Here’s to new roots, healthier soil, and growing the way we’ve been dreaming about.

Thank you @makitatools, we couldn’t do it without you!

#GoodGround #HighTunnel #BlackFarmers #QueerFarmers