It was all
a dream.
TruCulture is a living archive of Black and Afro-Indigenous resilience, artistry, and food sovereignty. Rooted in the rich soil of our ancestors’ wisdom, we cultivate spaces where culture, healing, and economic empowerment thrive
Spanning the Deep South to the Caribbean, TruCulture honors the interconnected legacies of Black and Indigenous traditions, reviving ancestral foodways, herbal medicine, and art-making practices lost to colonization. Our farm serves as a sanctuary for land stewardship, growing medicinal and native plants that nourish both body and spirit. Our mobile M(ART)ket brings these offerings directly to the people, transforming public spaces into hubs of cultural exchange, storytelling, and collective healing.
We are farmers, healers, artists, and revolutionaries reclaiming what was stolen—our land, our health, our wealth. By braiding the past and future, we forge a self-sustaining ecosystem that nurtures our communities and redefines what it means to be sovereign.
This is TruCulture: where heritage meets liberation, and every seed planted is a promise to the generations to come.
Mission:
TruCulture’s mission is to create social change by re-education the community and providing access to plants, food, commodities, crafts, and medicine derived from ancestral knowledge and life skills. By doing this TruCulture will support community members to regain holistic life practices, healthy bodies, self-worth, and economic sovereignty by regaining control of our food systems and health.
Values:
Reclaiming Community Health
We nurture the mind, body, and spirit of our communities through wellness rooted in ancestral practices. Gardening, healthy food, and herbal medicine become tools of liberation, restoring balance and empowering communities to thrive in body and mind.
Decolonizing Food systems
TruCulture restores the agricultural, culinary, and herbal knowledge stolen from our ancestors. We teach lost techniques in cooking, farming, foraging, bartering, and cooperative economics, honoring the pioneers of Black and Afro-Indigenous knowledge. By reclaiming these traditions, we cultivate self-sufficiency, cultural pride, and resilience in our communities.
Economic sovereignty
We reclaim Black buying power and redirect it to our communities. By keeping dollars circulating locally through sustainable agriculture, markets, and entrepreneurship, TruCulture strengthens economic resilience and builds wealth that sustains our people. Our Mobile Market extends this reach, creating opportunities for Black farmers, makers, and entrepreneurs to thrive.
Food Justice
At TruCulture, we reclaim the power to feed ourselves and our communities. We provide sustainably grown food and value-added products through accessible markets, empowering urban youth and community members to participate in the wealth of their own neighborhoods. By connecting rural and urban Black communities, we trade resources, share knowledge, and build systems of resilience that free us from dependence on exploitative structures
Regenerative Agri/Cultural preservation
We fight against the erasure of Black and Indigenous knowledge caused by centuries of oppression. TruCulture preserves and teaches the arts of cultivation, herbal healing, culinary traditions, foraging, and cooperative systems. On our farm, we use Indigenous growing methods like companion planting, mound planting, and aboveground rivercane beds, ensuring ancestral wisdom thrives in the present and for generations to come.
The Farm
Welcome to
TruCulture Farm is a Black and Afro-Indigenous-led, family-owned farm based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, serving communities from Mississippi to New Orleans. We are reclaiming land, culture, and economic sovereignty while dismantling the impacts of capitalist racism on food systems, cultural memory, health, and community wealth.
Rooted in the agrarian traditions of the Black Diaspora, Afro-Indigenous, and Caribbean cultures, TruCulture Farm is a breathing testament of our dreams for the future. We combat food apartheid by growing chemical-free, sustainable, and culturally significant crops that nourish the body, honor our ancestors and the land. Our fields thrive with the Three Sisters, okra, sorrel, dasheen bush, paw paw, watermelon, amaranth, heirloom tomatoes and peppers, and many more culturally significant crops.
The farm is alive with purpose, featuring growing spaces, a chicken penthouse, silvopasture, an outdoor kitchen, and hands-on workshops. Coming soon, we will add a retreat space, healing house, and mushroom grow house. TruCulture fosters self-determination through land-based education, regenerative agriculture, and herbal medicine. Our workshops and programs equip our community with the skills to rebuild food systems, reclaim ancestral practices, and cultivate holistic well-being.
At the heart of our mission is the revitalization of Black agrarian and Indigenous traditions and land stewardship. TruCulture Farm is a sanctuary where cultural resilience flourishes, land is honored, and the wisdom of our ancestors guides us toward a future of abundance.
TruCulture Farm preserves tradition to cultivate liberation for ALL.
The Mobile Market
Welcome to
The TruCulture Mobile Market is a community food truck bringing the flavors, medicines, and crafts of the Black diasporas directly to communities from Mississippi to New Orleans. Traveling to markets around the city of New Orleans to hosting community events in Hattiesburg, it delivers fresh, responsibly grown produce, herbal medicine, value-added products, dry goods, ready to eat meals, and cultural items often missing from traditional supermarkets.
Built with intention, the Mobile Market transforms into a farmers’ market on wheels with its custom retractable display rack, and serves as a full working kitchen, interactive classroom, and workshop/teaching space. In times of emergency, it can become a lifeline, ready to nourish communities with fresh meals for weeks at a time. The Mobile Market is a moving sanctuary that restores ancestral foodways, combats food apartheid, and creates space for local farmers, makers, and healers to share their gifts while nourishing bodies, spirits, and communities.
