Food sovereignty,
block by block.

Each FarmBlock would turn a single city block into a working food system: growing space, distribution, training, and local jobs. Food sovereignty means the lineage controls its own nourishment — not dependent on the grocery deserts that policy created.

The model starts with pilot blocks in Liberty City: permissioned sites, soil and water assessments, and growing plans matched to what the land and the neighborhood can sustain.

The FarmBlock Pilot is the Black Dragons campaign’s agricultural-technology pilot; Lineage Farms is E5’s flagship food-sovereignty program.

This is not a community garden. FarmBlock is designed as an ownership and economic-development strategy — productive land held by the lineage, generating yield, dignity, and a hedge against displacement.

Ownership structures — land trusts, cooperative title, long-term leases — are being evaluated now, before the first bed is planted, so the land can’t be taken back once it starts producing.

Lineage Farms and the proposed McCartney Academy are designed to reinforce each other: students learning the land, the land feeding the school, and the block becoming a closed loop of nourishment and instruction. Both programs are in development; the tie is a design commitment, not an operating reality — yet.

There are no operating farm blocks today. What exists is the model, the target geography, early site conversations, and this open call for the people and land partners who will build it.

If you own or steward vacant land in Liberty City, want to volunteer, or want to support the work — the form below is where that begins.