frequently asked questions

The Corn Festival will be bringing Indigenous Knowledge from First Nations Peoples to the public to teach about the value and application of Ancestral and cultural teachings of regenerative agriculture and societal customs.

The inception of the Corn Festival Initiative is a clear step towards reparations that Indigenous communities have been demanding for centuries. Racial reconciliation, environmental, economic, and social justice must be reclaimed through the opportunity for land and food restorations amongst BIPOC communities by accessing land and the native foods without corporate influence. This festival will have the intention to educate, share and help with the decolonization process amongst our people and other cultures by bringing the culture of the corn alive again from the ground. This project was born from the collaboration between FLOWS, El Centro AMISTAD and a community learning series that hosted a talk titled El Maíz: Reclamando el Poder de la Comida Ancestral.

We are organizing the Corn Festival to develop a way where we can all benefit by learning, teaching, planting, healing and empowering each other. We believe that this festival will bring a lot of healing to the people, while recovering ancestral memory.

The land is a place of power, power which has been taken from BIPOC communities through systemic oppression, genocide, slavery, and erasure, creating multiple generational traumas through the banishment of the land, and taking away and essential sacred ways of life to the Indigenous people like corn. We are in revolutionary times and it is time for us to claim food justice, land reparations and take our power back as BIPOC communities!

Come celebrate, connect, learn, and dance at the Harvest of All Nations Corn Festival with us and share in the harvest of food we've grown for the people!