“I do a lot of environmental stuff at my school, but not to this level… But now I’m actually actively working on a farm and I’m just like humanizing, healing the anger that I felt towards why we’re not doing anything to stop global warming.”
Fatima Camara, 2023 Y-WE Grow Intern
This summer, we’re offering a glimpse of the seeds our youth are planting at Marra Farm. In this video, Fatima, who participated in a recent Y-WE Grow season, offers her candid reflections:
Y-WE Grow creates a safer space for our community to reclaim and remember our relationship with nature. Because we have healing, purpose, and action integrated in Y-WE Grow, our youth know that it’s possible to build sustainability in environmental justice work long-term.
Video Transcript:
Fatima Camara (she/they): I thought environmental justice work was only about like, protesting and going out in the field and like writing letters to my legislative people. And I did some of that. But now it’s just like actually actively working in a farm and growing the crops and interacting with the earth, literally and figuratively. And with healing myself, it’s just like super important. I feel like that was the thing that I was missing. I felt like by coming to Marra Farm, doing the actual work of like healing and being connected to the earth and just growing the crops and also distributing it out to the community just felt very much wholesome to me. And I felt like I needed to continue that to just like educate myself more and just wanting to grow into this person that I want to become. And just healing the earth and healing myself.