Raccoon Oak Farm

Archiving. Original post on Bvlbancha Collective site, December 24, 2023.

Raccoon Oak Farm is a new Indigenous farm effort in the Atchafalaya Basin outside of Lafayette, LA.

Raccoon Oak Farm, est. 2023.

Ida's previous farm creation and management experience comes from the successful creation and expansion of Yakani Ekelanna Community Garden and Food Forest from 2020-2022, in Grey, LA outside of Houma, for the Houma Nation of Louisiana.

The Yakani Ekelanna flag.

Some articles about the work at Yakani Ekelanna:

In These Times article after Hurricane Ida

Southern Foodways - Mutual Aid of NOLA Oral History project