Who We Are

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Justice Madden is a storyteller, facilitator, and land-based practitioner whose work centers healing, nourishment, and collective liberation through seeds, land, and cultural memory. Raised in Newport News, Virginia, she developed a deep appreciation for the intersections of food, community, and tradition, which continue to shape her praxis of care and reciprocity. For the past five years, Justice has worked across urban and rural landscapes throughout the Southeast as a nomadic gardener, collaborating with Black and Indigenous farmers, seedkeepers, and cultural leaders.

Chris Keeve, Floridian and aspiring cryptid, does a lot of things with seeds and with the people who care about them. They completed their BA in Environmental Sciences & African-American Studies at Northwestern and their MS in Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Their research has recently focused on in situ agrobiodiversity conservation through seedkeeping and historic plant collections, and has turned towards living and lively archives as well as the local and regional landscape dynamics of participatory plant breeding and seed grower networks. Further interests ooze into Black Geographies, Queer Geographies, Political Ecology, Vegetal Geographies, Historical Ecology, other things probably, but really they just like reading comics, tending to plants, and growing food.

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Amyrose Foll is a Virginia-based farmer, organizer, and advocate for regenerative agriculture and land sovereignty. As a founding voice behind Virginia Free Farm, she focuses on building resilient, community-centered food systems rooted in ecological care, mutual aid, and rural self-determination. Her work bridges hands-on farming with education and advocacy, emphasizing soil health, local food access, and sustainable livelihoods for small producers. Through Virginia Free Farm, Amyrose works to reclaim farming as both a practical craft and a liberatory practice.

Angie Comeaux is of Mvskoke, Cherokee, Chahta, and French Creole descent, and belongs to Kvnfvske etvlwv, where she is Nokosvlke clan mother. Angie was born and raised in Bvlbancha, currently living and farming in south Alabama, in her ancestral Mvskoke homelands. She is a founding member of both Bvlbancha Collective and Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, two Indigenous Southeastern femme and non-binary collectives working in mutual aid, medicine, and food sovereignty, and rebuilding ancestral trade routes. Angie is a seed grower, was student in the inaugural cohort of the Ira Wallace Seed School, and is a volunteer on a number of committees for the Gulf South Heritage Seed Project. In 2023 Angie completed Clinical Herbal Practitioner school with the Appalachian Center for Natural Health and 4th year of herbal medicine courses.  Angie was recently awarded the 2024 Environmental Leader Award by the Center for Rural Affairs. She was also a 2022-2023 fellow with the Soul Fire Farm Braiding Seeds fellowship, and now works as a Co-Director for the Braiding Seeds Fellowship.

Most importantly, Angie is the founder of Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv (Hummingbird Springs) Farm, a fallow 120-year-old peanut farm that she, her partner, and community are transitioning into an Indigenous food forest. Between 2022-2023, Angie and her community planted over 2,000 native trees at Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv Farm. They are also stewarding ruminants, poultry, equine, and a huge range of native and culturally significant plants. The goal at Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv Farm is to fully reclaim and resurrect Indigenous agricultural practices that have been sleeping and to welcome those practices back to their homelands. The mission of Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv is to show what Indigenous sovereignty truly looks like, to be a living example of what prioritizing community care and the needs of the land can achieve, and to show that when we listen to the land and the land's original stewards, we can not only heal our communities but thrive. Angie feels that it is necessary that we bring the songs, the language, and our lifeways back home. It is vital that we build our future in right relationship with the land and with one another.