CT NOFA Board Member, Freedom Gerardo, Featured on NBC Connecticut

NBC Connecticut recently interviewed CT NOFA board member, Freedom Gerardo, about his work as co-director of the Venture Farming Institute, “a farming education program here in Connecticut [that] is assisting Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) who are farmers just breaking into the profession.”

The purpose of the institute is “to make sure, BIPCO communities, BIPOC farmers can see themselves in the farm, can see themselves in the people that are working those workshops,” Gerardo says. “Create that symbiotic relationship with the soil we have lost again, and farm and feed our communities.”

Read the whole story here, or stream NBC Connecticut’s Connecticut in Color episode, below.