"Black Futures Farm: Growing Cooperative Resistance"

Mirabai Collins and Malcolm Hoover, co-founders of Black Futures Farm, discuss Black cooperative farming and Black placemaking as acts of resistance. Their conversation took place on February 20, 2026, at Portland State University's Pan African Commons, and was recorded on Zoom. Black Futures Farm is a community-building and production farm with a mission of healing the connection between Black people and the land. The farm is located in southeast Portland on 1.15 acres in the Learning Gardens Laboratory and produces fruit, vegetables, culinary and medicinal herbs, and flowers. Black Futures Farm is a program of the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition.