FHDC & Evolve and the Oregon Farmworker Movement are in a very exciting time of expanding our Anahuac program to its own Anahuac Farm & Cultural Center located in our beautiful Mid-Willamette Valley on 60 acres of certified-organic land in Turner, OR. The Anahuac Project launched 3 years ago at FHDC’s Nuevo Amanecer and has brought many resources, connections, and organic foods, medicines, and Indigenous traditions into the lives of our residents. We are grateful for their work and supporters of their expansion.
The development of the Anahuac Farm & Cultural Center invites you to join us for a Virtual House Party to support this iconic undertaking, hosted by our network of sister organizations, Alianza Poder, on Wednesday, April 27 from 5:00 PM-6:30 PM.
About the Anahuac Farm & Cultural Center
Anahuac is a community centered program that offers traditional education in agriculture, culinary and cultural arts, wellness, and native languages. Our work aims to empower our Indigenous communities of America, in the dominant culture known as farmworkers, whose labor has been exploited throughout the food system. We are here to sow seeds of sovereignty with organic cultivation of our milpa (corn, squash, and beans) and rescue our relationships with our traditional plants and herbs.
The Anahuac Farm & Cultural Center is an extension and evolution of Oregon’s farmworker immigrant movement which is approaching 50 years of struggle and progress. Our communities have worked in Oregon’s agricultural lands for generations. Oftentimes, the land has been a battleground in our plight to bring dignity and justice to our farmworkers. Overall, indigenous communities of America have been essential to our food system and agricultural labor force in the U.S. and Canada since the Bracero Program. However, our communities have not experienced the fruit of their labor, but rather labor exploitation and exposure to harmful chemicals and pollutants. The Anahuac Farm & Cultural Center will offer a centralized location in the Willamette Valley for our indigenous community and Oregon’s farmworker immigrant movement to return to their center, connect with Mother Earth, and reawaken their ancestral wealth–our gift Oregon.
Please join us to learn more about how you and your organization can support the Anahuac Farm & Cultural Center to become a reality.
If you have any questions please contact Capital Campaign Manager, Sofia Baum at sofia@capacesleadership.org or Capaces Executive Director, Jaime Arredondo at jaime@capacesleadership.org.