The Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm

Rooted in nourishment, freedom, and reciprocity

Whitakers, NC

est. 2019

The Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm is rooted in the values of nourishment, freedom, and reciprocity. Healing Black Southerners relationship to land in the South through agriculture and education, the farm is a space for community. The lives of plants, animals, and people matter here. Practicing reciprocity for the land and the community is our attempt to grow toward sovereignty. The Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm visions a just society where people have access to what they need to live as they see fit. A people who can feed themselves, are a people who can lead themselves. Thank you for coming to the site, please explore to learn more.

Meet the farmer

Born in Nashville, Tennessee and raised in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Dallas grew up talking to plants and watching worms in the soil of the backyard. Studying geography at Vassar College revealed the destruction and harm of the globalized food system. This learning struck a chord -buying food had become something scary.
New consumer habits lead to wanting to homestead which encouraged Dallas to apply for the BIPOC FIRE immersion program at Soul Fire Farm. In this week-long intensive, Dallas learned the beautiful heritage of African and Indigenous agriculture that has shaped the US food system. Here, the inspiration for the Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm was ignited. Dallas spent the next 2 years apprenticing, studying, and digging in the soil (rain or shine) to increase knowledge and skill. After completing Farm Beginnings in September of 2019, Dallas moved home to lay the groundwork for the Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm. In between learning how to grow food and run a business, Dallas began facilitating a social justice education workshop series.
Dallas hopes to share in the joy and beauty of agriculture while acknowledging the history of abuse of the land and people through theft, enslavement, racism, and environmental destruction. For Dallas farming is a direct response to the trauma and disparity this history has caused, and education is a means to transform this power.
You can connect with Dallas at the Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm or at the Rocky Mount Farmers Market during seasonal hours. To learn more about workshops and training visit the Land Lessons page of the site.

The Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm is named for the work and legacy of two incredible freedom fighters. Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hammer are honored with each planting and every harvest.

Uplifting Our Matriarchs

Dream it.

Tubman had so much faith in her liberation that she denied the laws and systems that told her she was nothing more than property. Escaping from bondage to return numerous times to free her family and other Black people who imagined better lives, illustrates only a fraction of Harriet Tubman's work, courage, and determination.

Build it.

Fannie Lou Hamer radicalized her small rural Mississippi community through voter organizing and cooperative economics. The Freedom Farm cooperative in Sunflower County improved the lives of hundreds of poor Black and white people.