Today, there is a growing movement to redefine the historical Black experience with land ownership and raising crops. Shanelle Donaldson West. Photo supplied by Shanelle Donaldson WestShe also passes on the traditions of growing food to young, unhoused, and food-insecure individuals via Bloom, a 10-week internship program. Still, she sees Black people persisting in sharing their cultural knowledge of growing, using the very practices that fueled the country’s development to now liberate their communities. “[If] we all have this collective mindset that we’re growing to connect food [to] our cultural heritage and our traditions … we will be ontop of this world.”