Louisville Urban League to Grow Urban Farming

LOUISVILLE (Sept. 18, 2023) – The Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) wants to get its hand in the dirt.

Through a federal project, Project Kilimo, the Urban League wants to help grow the city’s urban farming community.

The program will have farmers and educators as paid fellows that would support Black urban farmers in the western part of the city. These fellows would support the farmers by granting educational opportunities, resources, and land access.

The Urban League’s interim President and CEO Lyndon Pryor, said, “We want to make sure that people understand that they have a right and an access to land, to be able to grow land, to be able to commune with land, and that that is an important part of our history and our heritage, and that they shouldn’t be divorced from that simply because it was abused and misused by this country in the past.”

The Urban League was one of two affiliates selected by the National Urban League for a USDA grant to help develop a National Black Farmer Apprenticeship Program.

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