How We Do
What We Do
What We Do
What is the Black Food Truck?
The pilot 3-part workshop aimed at unpacking the complexities of our current food system
What is Calabash 101?
15 years
What is the anniversary OSW will be celebrating in 2026?
Name a crop Kwabena, Aita, Bibi and Jojo are growing/have grown/have attempted to grow in Ghana
What are palm nut trees, plantain, banana, pawpaw (papaya), avocado, prekese (a kind of herb), cocoyam/kontomire, sourghum, beans, yellow corn, watermelon, sweet potatoes, carrots, pineapples, okra, red corn, lemongrass, butterfly pea flowers, passion fruit, cashew tree, mango tree, orange tree, guava trees, sugar apple tree, soursop tree, pomegranate tree, grape vine, cinnamon tree, turkey berries, miracle berry, mulberry tree, sugar cane, onion, white potatoes, lacinato kale, pak choi, tomatoes, arugula, malabar spinach, ginger, pawpaw trees, cassava, yard long beans, and coconut trees.
Event hosted as a 2-day food festival on the campus of Prince George's County Maryland
What is the Black Food Black Futures Festival?
An outdoor networking event for Black conservation specialists
What is BlackOut?
Legal and financial arrangement that allows for groups to access the benefits of a non-profit without needing to be one
What is fiscal sponsorship?
Professional/Personal Development tool used to better understand nine personality types by defining what drives us and how to use our natural strengths
What is the Enneagram Personality test?
Scheduled to be in Ghana but was sadly missed because they did not get their Visa returned
Who is Lotus?
LAMP
What is the Land Access to Market Program awarded to OSW that was impacted by the Executive Orders?
Our Food * Our Freedom
What is the giving circle fundraising campaign launched this summer?
Land & Liberation LLC
Who is one of the Calabash clients that hosts regular WTF calls for farmers and landowners and also shares staff with OurSpace’s calabash consultants?
The workshop whose themes run through our monthly staff meetings
What is Warrior, Healer, Builder?
The center where the 3-day Black Sustainability summit took place at in the Volta region of Ghana
What is KASI - the Kweku Andoh Sustainability Institute?
Ujima Jams was relaunched this summer by a Black Girl Environmentalist fellow and a high school intern
Who is Muna?
Programs that take place at several outdoor classrooms ranging from backyards, parks, and school gardens, to small-scale farms. Designed for everyone; students, families, children, and elders.
What are Teach22 programs?
Armonia, A Heart 4 People Farm, Ad Astra Farms, Maranatha Farm, Root of the Matter, Sisters of the Soil Community Farm, Root of the Matter, Bedouin Farms, Avery’s Green Acres, Kin & Flo Farm, Narrow Way Farm, and JFRAI Family Farm.
What are farms that have received support from the Calabash Network in 2025?
Union-owned worker co-op, Worx Printing
What is the name of our swag printing source?
The new name and meaning MJ received at the naming ceremony
What is Ama, born on Saturday?
Seven staff transitioned out of full time roles at OurSpace World this year
Who are Sessina, Endora, Jade Flower, Lewis, Michele, Nicole, and Espie?
Tuskegee, Alabama
Where is the newest land-based location that OurSpace World will host programs and events?
Georgia Gilmore (Mama Gigi)
Who is the Montgomery, AL born cook, midwife, and activist who fundraised for the civil rights movement by selling fried chicken sandwiches to the folks who had gathered and later organized Black women to sell pound cakes, sweet potato pies, fried fish, stewed greens, pork chops and rice at beauty salons, laundromats, cab stands, and churches to support the bus boycott. Our mobile kitchen cart is named after her.
A Farm to Door Experience
What is the motto of The People's Market, a MD/DC/VA based CSA subscription service?
September 21
What is the celebrated birthday of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, independence leader and Ghana's first president?
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
What is a quote from recent ancestor, Assata Shakur?