“Ensuring Our Yard”

Abstract Taking conventional public health norms, practices, measurement tools, and ideological presuppositions of food insecurity cause-effect rationales as normative, this chapter spans beyond micro-level realities and direct observations to document the ways in which the women of NWIAA discussed and engaged with alternative forms of knowledge and practice. These include approaches to land ownership, food and farming traditions, and transformative visions for restructuring local and global food systems. By applying a third politics of resourcefulness axiom, indigenous and folk knowledge, the chapter highlights the women’s reflections as they were discussed in relation to “people-place connections,” “cultural heritage,” and “Black futurist imaginings.”