‘We Can’t Build a System on Luck’ – Patchwork City Farms
Black farmers have gone through so much in this country, but we’re not talking about the story of resilience and how people farmed despite this—the incredible, amazing, mind-blowing stories of survival and ingenuity.
By Jamila Norman
Civil Eats
As told to Brian Calvert
Photography by Sheila Pree Bright
July 30, 2026
Excerpt:
When I started raising my family, we moved over to southwest Atlanta, which was at the time majority African American, mixed income, marginalized. All the food options were trash. I was like, “Who’s eating this stuff?” I’m hightailing across town to other communities so I can have access to fresh food and things like that. And I thought, “This is ridiculous.”
I decided I was just going to grow some food with some people in the neighborhood. We started a community garden at the local park, which is two blocks from my house.
We incorporated the farm, Patchwork City Farms, as a business in 2010, after we took over the lease of a nonprofit that was dissolving and had also started a garden at a middle school.
But I wanted to get my own land. I did a Google search: land for sale in Atlanta. I found an acre, a little bit over an acre, 1.2 acres. The price point was insanely low. I thought, I cannot believe somebody is selling this property for this. They have no idea what’s going on in this city.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/we-cant-build-a-system-on-luck-patchwork-city-farms/
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