Our elders are passing on and taking critical oral tradition with them. Further, younger generations are becoming politicized yet digital divides are keeping us from tapping in with our elders. Specifically in the context of our relationship to land in this country, now more than ever we need a record of our ancestors’ forced contributions to this country and how they are experts on its care and cultivation. 

“This project’s goal is three-fold: to encourage intergenerational Black relationships, to honor Black ancestral wisdom, and to record history in real-time. This is what I wish I had access to when writing my own book. Now, the data that wasn’t available to me will be available to all.”

— Brea Baker, Founder

This oral history project will build upon models like Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 but with a specific focus on agrarian strategies/practices, relationships to land, and Black sustainability. Through this initiative, we will leverage the people most trusted by Black elders — their children, grandchildren, and other loved ones — to create a new record for generations to come. In doing so, we can also revive organic intergenerational relationships.