A food resiliency project launched in Spring of 2023 by BLMJC, Well Organized and local BIPOC/PGM community members. With the desire to generate sustainable models of feeding ourselves ongoingly while also building more of a cohesive thriving community through; weekly community Sunday dinners, produce from our own gardens (donated seeds and starts via WSU Food Access program), produce from PGM farms - Shy Acre, Sky Island Farms, and 3P's (also purchased via the WSU Food Access program), and food prepared by PGM with ingredients donated from The Jefferson County Farmers Markets.

Our partner in organizing focusing on the unique needs of the Black community in Jefferson County. For more information on BLMJC click here.

An Indigenous Led Revitalization Project Focused on Land Stewardship, Education and First Foods. You can see more about this amazing project on their website.

The Community Equity Initiative (CEI) works for racial justice for BIPOC, especially youth and families, in a predominantly white, rural community. Consisting of all BIPOC organizers and leaders, they draw on their intersectional wisdom to promote the systematic eradication of inequities and create a culture of belonging. CEI builds racially equitable experiences in the public school system, provides opportunities for families to connect and learn together, and strengthens the visibility of BIPOC leaders who are both role models and cultural collaborators.

Peter Mustin farms on 24 acres in the Chimacum Valley of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. He has a profound vision for restoring the vitality and health of this land, including growing flowers, harvesting walnuts, raising poultry and creating a refuge for his community. His mother Eileen also lives on the farm and runs an egg bussiness. BLMJC/Well Organized partnered with Woodbridge to facilitate a grant to provide better living conditions for Eileen in 2023. Peter and Eileen have poured love, sweat and tears into making things work at Woodbridge Farms.

Over the last several months they have faced extreme hardship. A local business owner they were in collaboration with has violated their mutual agreements- committing devastating animal neglect on the Woodbridge property, causing damage to expensive equipment, and harming the health of their land. The neglected livestock have destroyed several of Peter’s perennial flower beds including his dahlias and peonies, undoing years of careful tending. Trash and discarded animal feed also brought pests onto the property, resulting in the death of most of their chickens and quail. All of this destruction came just as Eileen’s egg business was getting off the ground, and as Peter was in his first year of selling flower bouquets at the Port Townsend and Chimacum farmer’s markets. This loss has been devastating for them both. You can find more details of the harm caused by this situation on their social media here.

Please consider donating to their gofundme at this link: Support Peter and Eileen

The Talkin Story podcast will feature local people of the global majority (PGM aka BIPOC) who are acting as flashpoints for social and cultural transformation within Port Townsend/East Jefferson county. These are the people who have been steadily working almost under the radar to craft a world in which they exist with sovereignty and creativity. This project also seeks to provide opportunities for PGM youth mentorship with paid summer internships for high school students, who will hone written and verbal communication skills in the process of supporting the development of the podcast series.

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AVE is a rapper, singer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Port Townsend, Washington. They grew up performing and playing around their hometown, as well as elsewhere in Washington State–such as the Northwest Folklife festival–as well as several venues in the Philippines. They are in the process of recording their debut album, which they hope provides representation and inspiration for their community. They are working with Well Organized to create their album and host a series of performances for the community.

A small group of writers who are enthralled by the art of language and it’s capacity to speak about and to worlds known and not so familiar. While our bodies are currently rooted on what has recently been called the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, the DNA of our bodies is spread across the varied diasporas of the People of the Global Majority (PGM). The place is important because we believe in the entanglement of relationships with the more-than-human world and how it becomes the ground of our writing. While our work does not necessarily address life in this particular place, we want to acknowledge that it likely has molded our literary sensibilities as much as anything. Our goal is to cultivate the literary arts among our kin, PGM (aka BIPOC), here in this place we call as a way of placemaking and honing our collective and individual voices for no particular purpose other than our own edification and enjoyment. Through writing spaces, workshops, retreats and book clubs, hope to nurture the imagination and skill of our people to write, to speak, to be witnessed in truth telling, and to be known.

Juneteenth 2022, was a community event run by a Juneteenth Planning Committee composed of local Black community organizers for the Black Community. The event was funded by a sponsorship from the Inatai Foundation with the intent of supporting the long term health of the Black community by creating a safe space to celebrate Black joy and fostering a deeper sense of community connectedness in a predominantly white area.

Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County and the Juneteenth Planning Committee partnered with Woodbridge Farm (Chimacum, Wa), the only fully Black owned farm in Jefferson County, Wa.

This program focuses on mentorship, outdoor education, food justice, local food harvesting practices, honoring our food sources as well as boat and water safety. BIPOC Facilitators take BIPOC Youth ages 6-18 years old out harvesting crab, shrimp, oysters, clams, kelp and other aquatic based food sources. It also offers opportunities for older BIPOC to participate as parents, mentors and volunteers. By equipping BIPOC Youth and community with knowledge of local sustainable food sources that do not require land ownership it empowers food sovereignty.