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We Are Growing Home.

A Black family farm rooted in food sovereignty, land reclamation, cultural memory, and community.

Earth Medicine Farms

The Land Remembers

This land has held our family for generations. Now, we are learning how to hold it in return.

Earth Medicine Farms is a Black family farm near Due West, South Carolina, rooted in land that has been in our family for generations.

What began as a return to our family's agricultural history is growing into a living practice of food sovereignty, land stewardship, cultural memory, and community care.

Here, we grow vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, and culturally meaningful crops while restoring the land as a place where people can reconnect with food, knowledge, one another, and the possibility of shaping our own local food system.

We aren't trying to recreate the past. We are carrying forward what still has something to teach us.

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FROM THE SOIL

The Land Remembers

Growing food. Growing knowledge. Growing possibility.

Earth Medicine Farms is being developed as a diversified farm where annual crops, herbs, fruit, flowers, perennial plantings, animals, pollinators, and people can exist in relationship with one another.

Our work centers culturally meaningful foods and plants while exploring regenerative growing practices that help us care for the soil we're asking to feed us.

But growing food is only part of the work.

We believe knowing how to grow, preserve, prepare, share, and make decisions about our own food is part of building stronger families and more resilient rural communities.

Food sovereignty begins when people recognize that we are not simply consumers of a food system. We can help shape it.

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LAND + LEGACY

Reclamation begins with remembering.

In 1956, Cora and George Finley purchased 20 acres of land in Abbeville County, South Carolina, for $1,516.

For a Black family in the rural South, owning land meant more than possessing acreage. Land could provide food, livelihood, home, inheritance, and something tangible to place into the hands of the generations coming behind them.

Over time, the family's landholdings grew to approximately 50 acres.

Today, Earth Medicine Farms is part of the next chapter of that story.

We are returning family land to active cultivation—not because we believe everything about the past should be preserved, but because there are things our ancestors knew about land, food, survival, cooperation, and care that remain worth carrying forward.

We grow food here.

We preserve memory here.

We imagine what comes next here.

And little by little,

we are growing home.

WHAT WE'RE GROWING TOWARD

Farms aren't built in a season.

Neither are food systems.

Our vision for Earth Medicine Farms extends beyond what you can see growing in the fields today.

We are working toward a diversified farm and community space that brings together food production, a food forest, farm animals, community growing spaces, children's learning, outdoor gathering, and locally rooted food infrastructure.

Some of it exists now.

Some of it is being planted.

Some of it is being planned.

And some of it is still a dream we're learning how to build.

We believe in being transparent about that process because reclamation isn't a before-and-after story.

It's the work in between.

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY STARTS CLOSE TO HOME

Abbeville County's food future should not be determined only by what arrives on a truck, what corporations decide to stock, or how far residents can travel to buy fresh food.

We believe rural communities can grow more of what we eat, preserve agricultural knowledge, support local growers, strengthen relationships between neighbors, and build food systems shaped by the people who live here.

Earth Medicine Farms is one small piece of that larger possibility.

One farm cannot feed a county.

But one farm can grow food.

One garden can teach a child.

One neighbor can teach another.

One remembered seed can become a field.

And enough people growing together can begin to change what is possible.

GROW WITH US

A farm isn't built alone.

Follow along as we reclaim family land, grow food, learn in public, gather community, and build toward a more locally rooted food future in Abbeville County.

Whether you come to learn, grow, share knowledge, attend a gathering, support the farm, or simply watch the seasons unfold—

there is room for you in the story.

We Are Growing Home.

Earth Medicine Farms

The Land Remembers

The Land Remembers

The Land Remembers

This land has held our family for generations. Now, we are learning how to hold it in return.

FROM THE SOIL

The Land Remembers

The Land Remembers

Growing food. Growing knowledge. Growing possibility.

MAE'S GARDEN PROJECT

Let the children remember differently.

ENGAGE & SUPPORT

LAND + LEGACY

Reclamation begins with remembering.

Reclamation begins with remembering.

we are growing home.

WHAT WE'RE GROWING TOWARD

Farms aren't built in a season.

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY STARTS CLOSE TO HOME

GROW WITH US

A farm isn't built alone.

Earth Medicine Farms

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We Are Growing Home.

Earth Medicine Farms

The Land Remembers

The Land Remembers

The Land Remembers

This land has held our family for generations. Now, we are learning how to hold it in return.

FROM THE SOIL

The Land Remembers

The Land Remembers

Growing food. Growing knowledge. Growing possibility.

MAE'S GARDEN PROJECT

Let the children remember differently.

ENGAGE & SUPPORT

LAND + LEGACY

Reclamation begins with remembering.

Reclamation begins with remembering.

we are growing home.

WHAT WE'RE GROWING TOWARD

Farms aren't built in a season.

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY STARTS CLOSE TO HOME

GROW WITH US

A farm isn't built alone.

Earth Medicine Farms

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