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NEFOC Network Gathering 2019
NEFOC’s mission is to return land to Indigenous, Black, refugee, migrant, and diasporic land stewards of color as a means of advancing food sovereignty, healing, cultural celebration, and community self-determination. We work to dismantle systemic barriers to land access through land rematriation, cooperative stewardship, and transformative policy change, ensuring that land remains in the care of those who cultivate deep, reciprocal relationships with it.
Our wraparound approach weaves together technical assistance for our land projects and network, education and knowledge mobilization, policy advocacy, and reciprocal relationships to create interconnected pathways to land access and long-term success for farmers and land stewards. Like a living ecosystem, these strategies reinforce and sustain one another, ensuring that every avenue leading to land security is uplifted and centered.
At the heart of NEFOC is our Network, an alliance of over 700 farmers and land stewards across the Northeast, who are reclaiming and redefining what it means to steward land in a way that is rooted in justice, kinship, and intergenerational care. Together, we are building a future of food and land sovereignty in the Northeast—one where regenerative farming, sustainable human habitat, ceremony, ecosystem restoration, climate resilience, and cultural traditions thrive. By addressing the root causes of land access challenges, we foster self-sufficient communities that generate and share knowledge, ensuring that land stewardship is not just an individual pursuit but a collective and enduring movement.
