Black Star Farmers (2025)

10/04/2025

Join Black Star Farmers for our first Second Sunday of the 2025 season! Come as you are for nourishment, dialogue, and garden skillshare.

All details & RSVP link in bio:
🔗 bit.ly/BSFsecondsunday

🕛 Event Schedule:
12p-1p Community Potluck
1p-2p Community Convo
TOPIC: Destruction of the Land is Destruction of the People: Ecocide and the Migrant Crisis
2p-3:30p Garden Stewarding
3:30p-4p Clean Up

🦋 Our topic for conversation will be Destruction of the Land is Destruction of the People: Ecocide and the Migrant Crisis. This is inspired from our last month’s dialogue from the seed swap, where we discussed the extraction of soil starting materials like peat moss, perlite, and coconut coir. Given the heightened attacks locally against our migrant relatives, we will be making connections between the migrant crisis here in Washington and the imperialist destruction of people’s ancestral homelands globally that is the ultimate cause for forced migration.
We will hear from our friends in about how migrants and allies are organizing locally to build a mass movement to defend the dignity of migrants and asylum seekers and demand the end to forced migration, deportations, and detention.

🌱 This will connect to our Garden Skillshare topic for this month - garden planning, intercropping, crop rotation; the importance of tending to the soil as we grow food to nourish our communities.

🦠 Please consider testing for COVID prior to arrival and mask when unable to distance. These viruses are out here thriving right now!

10/03/2025

soil & seed starting skillshare PLUS seed swap was a success! thanks to all who joined us today 🥳🥰✨

🌱 we got 500+ seeds planted and everyone went home with exciting new seeds to try growing this season. A number of folks offered to bring home boxes of starts to foster through the first few early weeks before we bring them back together to up-pot at a centralized location.

🔥 Excited to be growing our network of people that can tend and hold the New Holly space together. If you live in the South End, especially around New Holly/Othello/Rainier Beach/Columbia City, plz come thru!

We are looking to build consistency and commitment to our practice of collective gardening and being organized this year and beyond. Join us! DM to get connected.

What seeds are you excited to grow this season? Comment below ⬇️

05/03/2025

SUNDAY 🥳🌱 Join us on March 9 from 1-4PM at New Holly Rockery Market Garden for a Seed Swap and Soil Skillshare!

🥳 We are excited to start our gardens this season and are looking especially for organic seeds from the past 1-2 seasons that you’ve grown & saved that are special to you and your lineage. Tell us your seed stories ❤️‍🔥

🧡 Please RSVP and see details here: bit.ly/BSFSeedSwap

🫂 Please be prepared to bring seeds back home with you if any do not get shared. We are at capacity with seeds for now! 🫰🏽

😷 Masks always encouraged & please stay home if you’re feeling any sick symptoms. We can always exchange seeds soon 💕

05/03/2025

We made it thru the winter 🫠 Here’s some pics of New Holly garden from February, shoutout to the crew for starting early and getting the cover crops turned into the beds to prepare for spring planting! How is your spring prep going so far?

Join us Sunday from 1-4PM for a seed swap & soil skillshare to get your set up ready for the season 🥳

11/02/2025

✅ VOTE YES on Prop 1A by Tuesday, Feb 11 @ 8PM! The wealthy opposition has spent over half a million to stop social housing. Vote YES and get more people into dignified housing now!

Prop 1A will generate $50 million for social housing by taxing the wealthiest businesses, which would:

✊🏽 Create permanently affordable, publicly owned social housing: Housing would be created for people, not for profit, and stay in public hands in perpetuity.

💚Add housing that meets the highest green standards: Buildings account for a significant percentage of overall greenhouse gas emissions. New social housing buildings must meet Passive House standards.

🫂 Foster mixed-income communities:  Social housing will serve households across the income spectrum, with the rents of higher income households subsidizing those of lower incomes.

👍🏽Prop 1A👍🏽 is widely endorsed by unions, climate action groups, and diverse community organizations. 👎🏽Prop 1B👎🏽 receives 82% of its funding from major corporations, and looks out for big business interests not working class and poor people. ❌Big business and real estate should not have a say in our elections‼️

Thank you to our friends in and for helping push forward this initiative! 🫰🏼

Did you get your ballot in / have a plan to get them in before 8PM TONIGHT?

04/01/2025

see y’all soon, dress for cold rain. bring flowers, candles, photos, signs. ❤️‍🔥

Repost from : Join us for a vigil in remembrance of Robert Brooks on Saturday, January 4th at 4pm at Cal Anderson Park on the corner of 11th and Pine behind the backstop. Please bring flowers, candles, and signs (masks required).

On December 10th 43-year-old Robert Brooks died from the horrendous injuries he sustained by correctional officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in New York who beat Brooks to death while he was handcuffed.

Bodycam footage released on December 27th by NY Attorney General, Letitia James showed multiple officers smiling and joking along with medical staff, as they brutalized and ultimately murdered Brooks.

None of the 13 officers involved have been charged. 3 of which were previously accused of acts of similar violence that left one man, William Alvarez permanently disfigured and another, Adam Bauer in a wheelchair.

We cannot be silent in the face of police brutality and torture, Robert Brooks should still be alive today, he deserved better and so do countless victims of carceral violence!

Join us for a vigil at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle to remember the life of Robert Brooks and demand justice and accountability. Contact the NY State Attorney General’s office and demand the officers be held accountable: 315-864-2000.

If we learn of how the Brooks family can be directly supported during this extremely traumatizing time, we will update this post in the description.

End state sanctioned violence, support victims and families. Justice for Robert Brooks.

15/10/2024

🌻 BSF Harvest Celebration Sunday 10/20 🌻

Black Star Farmers’ final community gathering of the 2024 season will be at New Holly Rockery Garden Sunday Oct 20th 12-5PM.

We hope you will join us on the 20th in conversation about the ways we are collectively building a mass resistance movement by seeding resistance into our daily lives. Local groups and individual attendees will be invited to dialogue about their practices of resistance against the imperialist machine. Please feel welcome to bring any flyers, ways to connect, and information to share about current or upcoming efforts to encourage cross pollination amongst attendees!

Please RSVP: bit.ly/BSF1020

Event Schedule:
12-1:30PM Settle In & Feast
1:30PM-3PM Community Dialogue
3PM-5PM Land Tending, Music & Dance with DJs

Please let us know if you have any questions! Looking forward to closing out the season ❤️

13/10/2024

in each of our cultures it’s a deep tradition to honor and celebrate our harvest each year. our big celebration this year will be on Sunday Oct 20 from 12-5PM at New Holly Rockery Market Garden. We will have food from the gardens cooked by , community dialogue about our collective resistance, and music from DJs and Sonido Desmadrina!

join us 🌝🌻

27/09/2024

the state lynching of innocent people like Imam Khaliifah ibn Rayford Daniels demonstrates that it’s not what we do on social media that counts for anything, but what we are organizing and building together in real life. commit to more than posting your rage on Instagram. move your money away from the capitalist murder system into collective resource sharing systems. feed each other. study together. make medicine. cultivate ritual. grow the corn til it’s twenty feet tall. bc we are going to need all of these roles to hold each other as the imperialist system crumbles.

Rest in Power.

05/09/2024

This Sunday Sept 8 >> let’s gather in the garden, to share good food and discuss the ways we can work to build resistance into our everyday lives. After that we will harvest and w**d, save seeds, and prepare beds for the fall and winter.

Same schedule as last event! See y’all in the sun 🌞

04/09/2024

Appreciation Post 🤩 Thank you Chef Carmen for always cooking from your heart and soul and sharing the most delicious creations with everyone. Catch our next Sunday gathering with a full spread from Chef Carmen this Sunday Sept 8 from 12-4PM 🔥

And thank you to and for hooking it up with the produce!

09/08/2024

REPOST: Support in Letter Writing to Women Prisoners this Sunday with Samidoun Seattle 📨

Join us at Cal Anderson Park near the Farmer’s Market 12pm - 3pm (drop in any time) to write letters to Palestinian prisoners incarcerated by the Zionist occupation. Given META repression of the Palestine movement and Samidoun, our Instagram and FB accounts have been taken down. Spread the word for this event and follow us on Telegram!

In response to the call to make August 3rd, the 300th day of the ongoing siege on Gaza, International Day of Action for Gaza and the Prisoners, we hope to come together in solidarity with the prisoners’ struggle. Zionist prisons are known for torture, starvation, and abuse, and used by occupation forces in futile attempts to break the Palestinian spirit and the resistance, but the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement remains on the frontline of the liberation struggle.

No experience needed - bring yourself, friends, comrades, and your belief that we will soon win a Free Palestine.

Long live the Palestinian Resistance and Free Palestine!

09/08/2024

This Sunday! Join us from 12-4PM at New Holly Rockery Market Garden for our August Second Sunday gathering. In addition to our monthly programming, we will be hosting our friends from Samid0un (follow their telegram! eff meta for banning them yet again!) to do an echo letter writing action for Palestinian prisoners.

Thank you Chef Carmen from for always bringing the most delicious spread 🤤

28/07/2024

Invitation for New Holly Garden Day TODAY from approx 1-4PM per usual; at 2PM we will join the call from for a national day of mourning for Sonya Massey and hold vigil and sharing circle while we tend the garden together to make space for collective processing and dialogue. Please bring any pictures, flowers, altar items, etc. to honor Sonya’s life.

*Please note that this is not our monthly gathering; on the off-weeks we still gather to tend the garden together without the event vibes and big food spread. Please dress appropriately for the weather, bring water and snacks for yourself and to share if you’d like. Hand tools, gardening gloves, and a bag to bring home harvest are all helpful but not a barrier for attending! Today will be different as we will collectively hold space for Sonya Massey at 2PM.

27/07/2024

TWO EVENTS TODAY ⏩️⏩️⏩️ See y’all out there 🔥

1️⃣ Anti-Imperialist Qu**rs for Palestine Panel 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸TODAY 3-6PM Join local anti-imperialist organizations in Seattle for a panel, discussion & picnic to deepen our analysis of the roots of our oppression as q***r people, & how this relates to the struggle to free Palestine! Zoom option available!

REGISTER: Linktr.ee/Q4Pal

2️⃣ Bark Harvest & Cordage Skillshare
TODAY 1-4PM New Holly Garden Come learn how to forage, harvest, and create cordage with our homies from 🤩 Sign up at the link in their bio.

***rsforpalestine

27/07/2024

Thankful for the opportunity to host and share the powerful story of youth organizers in Chicago. The youth will lead the way into our liberated future! No Cop Academies! Fund Our Communities! 🔥

And now that we’ve got the set up - more movie nights to come! Drop your recommendations for environmental / climate / racial justice / food & land sovereignty related films, or if you are a producer and want to collab for a screening - shoot us a DM!

25/07/2024

Rest in Power to Sonya Massey. Cops don’t keep anyone safe, least of all Black and Brown and poor people living with neurodivergence as a result of this exploitative capitalistic world. The horrifying murder of Sonya Massey, Daniel Prude, Walter Wallace Jr., Janisha Fonville, and countless others, in their homes, in front of their mothers, babies, and partners, shows that the police system cannot and will not ever be reformed. Organizing towards the abolition of the police state and the total overturn of this imperialist global order is the ONLY way we will be able to achieve liberation for all of us.

This is why we call for - not here in Lacey, WA, not in the West Side of Chicago, not in the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, and NOT IN PALESTINE.

From movie (showing tonight at 7:30PM in New Holly (outdoors) or on Friday with ): “The majority [of us] have been pleading for investments in education, employment, housing, mental health clinics, and y’all have thrown at us a $95 million police academy that will do nothing for the community of Garfield Park. You are implementing a thing that is going to continue [to] over-criminalize Black folks.”

Through the film, the youth organizers of and Mariame Kaba call all of us to action - what we will do now? Will we organize our communities to fight? Will we refuse the apathy that overwhelms the need for more of us to be engaged in struggle?

We look forward to the discussion tonight.

18/07/2024

On July 24 at 7:30PM at New Holly Rockery Market Garden, we will host a screening of No Cop Academy, a documentary about Black youth and other youth of color organizers in Chicago mobilizing against Rahm Emanuel’s plans to spend $95 million dollar for a massive training center for Chicago police on the city’s West Side. The campaign composed of 104 organizations, refused any expansion of policing in Chicago, and demanded that the city fund youth and communities instead.

This one-hour documentary chronicles the explosive campaign through first hand experiences. Fund Communities! Abolish the Police! From Seattle to Chicago to Atlanta, to Haiti, Congo, Sudan and a FREE PALESTINE!

There will be a panel discussion after the film with the directors from 🔥

Content warning for visuals and discussion of police violence.

English & Spanish captions available.

Please test for COVID prior to coming to the screening. We will be outdoors, masking is nevertheless always encouraged. If you have any sick symptoms, please stay home!

is also hosting a screening on Friday July 26th at Washington Hall!

Excited to be in connection with SoapBox Productions and Organizing - - their mission is “to utilize media to power, frame, and sustain social movements that advance holistic solutions to root problems. In tandem with grassroots organizing efforts for racial, economic, and social justice, SoapBox delivers emotional impact storytelling for liberation. We produce documentaries, fiction films, podcasts, articles, and community-based programming that intend to educate, agitate, inspire, and ultimately transform.”

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