Vision
How We Started
We began with the goal of creating a movement of independent black business and landowners who can lead, challenge, and help develop a more inclusive food system for all.
We believe that those who are closest to the pain of injustice are those best prepared to lead.
Black Farmers are the most under-resourced, under-supported, and economically disadvantaged group of farmers within the BIPOC social justice world.
After years of being shut out of land access spaces because of white supremacy, racism, and anti blackness; now is the time to create culturally aware and competent support systems and pathways for their success.
This organization intends to change this dynamic by creating a program and process that is specific to the Black Farming experience in the food system, created by Black Farmers for Black Farmers.
Mukaji Ambila
Founder & CEO
A Congolese Immigrant, Mukaji graduated from Temple University in 2008, with a BA in Black Studies, and received her Certification In Farming Management from the Urban Farming Institute of Boston in 2016. Mukaji is a movement organizer, and uses an intersectional perspective to create her methodology. Her focus has always been confronting anti-blackness, and dismantling systems of white supremacy, and has assisted black led organizations in creating campaigns that build power and recognition. She founded Revolutionary Solutions in 2011,after identifying the work of black women in filling the gaps in administration and technical assistance for community building work. RBG Farm and Retreat LLC is a project derived from her assessment of the food deserts in the neighborhoods she lived in. She attended the Urban Farming Institute of Boston and now teaches others how to grow for their families from seed to harvest.! RBG FARM has currently installed 200+ garden beds and has held more than a community wide workshop as of Winter 2023.. In 2020, Mukaji founded the Black Land Ownership Council Inc, a non profit which empowers Black Farmers as business entities, as well as land owners. As of 2023, Mukaji with BLOC won a Fellowship with the Elevate Initiative part of the Bill Gates Foundation, is a finalist for the Echoing Green Global Fellowship 2023, and is on the City Of Boston’s Urban Farming Committee for the Neighborhood of Dorchester. BLOC is currently in partnership with Dank Moody Farms, co leasing 10 acres in Maine for agricultural growing for market and training.
Terrance Davis
Logistics & Construction Coordinator
Now our Logistics Coordinator, Terrance is an avid farmer and food lover, originally a community recipient of the City Of Boston's Garden bed program, and developed from volunteer, to labor coordinator, pivoted to construction of the garden beds. Born in MObile Alabama in 1976, Terrance Moved to Boston Massachusetts 1990. When he became a father it began an interest in food and food service industry from my first job at D'angelo's 1996 Relocated to my home state of Al in 2003..worked shipyard and warehouse jobs until 2008. Moved back to Boston and went back to Food service high end restaurants while doing PCA work for a friend quadriplegic patient. Terrance became interested in Cannabis and in 2012, spent 2 years in the House of Corrections for the manufacturing, and distribution of Marijuana. Released on parole 2014, Terrance spent years developing his legal Cannabis business, Dank Moody Farms LLC. As CEO Terrance, and Dank Moody Farm is in partnership with BLOC, and Tier1 Extracts in Maine co-leasing 10 acres & developing an Each 1 Teach 1 Canibus curriculum for BLOC’s WomenLEAD entrepreneurship program.
