SOUTHEASTERN AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS ORGANIC NETWORK
2026 AGRARIAN LEGACY
FUNDERS EDUCATION TOUR
HOSTED WITH SAAFON’S MISSISSIPPI FARMER MEMBERS AND PARTNERS
JUNE 2 - 5, 2026 | GULFPORT TO WATERFORD, MISSISSIPPI
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EVENT DETAILS
The 2026 Agrarian Legacy Funder Education Tour is SAAFON’s second funder-focused site visit since our founder and now ancestor Cynthia Hayes led the inaugural multi-day farm based tour across the Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina coasts nearly ten years ago. That 2016 “Funders Training and Tour” resulted in SAAFON’s first six-figure, multi-year institutional contribution which we have leveraged exponentially to build the legal, fiscal, and partnership muscles that have shouldered an incredible expansion of more than 200 farmer kinship experiences, and more than $800,000 in infrastructure, emergency and education funding made directly to farmers.
Mississippi farmers and organizations invite philanthropic organizations and individuals committed to supporting the continuity of Southern
agrarian foodways and cultural preservation to join SAAFON’s four-day, three-night, 471-mile journey through the heart of the State, which represents centuries of racial and economic justice movement building led by farmers. SAAFON’s early organizing years include land-based agroecology conversations, farmer skill-shares, brigading and mutual aid distribution in Mississippi.
Our membership dot-connecting across the South and the U.S. Virgin Islands is steeped in a Black agrarian politic that preserves and propagates ancestrally guided agroecological practices that provide a way forward for generations of Black communities to come.
Resource movers, stewards of philanthropic giving, and donor advisers are invited to experience and envision sustainable spaces where Southern Black agrarians connect, collaborate and create kinship, starting with SAAFON’s Agrarian Legacy Funder Education Tour. You will learn how to partner in ways that ensure that all Black farmers and agrarians have what they need to be well as active propagators of Black farming, culture and history at the intersection of environmental, climate, and economic justice.