Our Mission
Our mission is to regenerate culturally-important varieties and seed-keeping traditions from the African Diaspora, while uplifting black seed stories and empowering aspiring black seed stewards. We do this through growing and distributing seeds, and by educating and building community.
Our vision is to help black growers reclaim our relationship to our seeds and to support the development of seed sovereignty for African-Diasporic people in the Americas.
We believe that cultivating seed sovereignty- the right of communities to self-determine their seed systems, and to locally-grown, culturally-relevant seed- is essential to preserving our heritage, to building resilient and vibrant communities, and to creating a strong agricultural foundation for future generations.
Sistah Seeds' founder, Amirah Mitchell
Amirah is a farmer, seedkeeper and community educator who has worked in agriculture and food justice since 2007. She holds a B.S. in Horticulture from Temple University, studied agriculture in Brazil and Panama, and has farmed in Massachusetts, Georgia and Pennsylvania. She gives community workshops on seed-keeping and agroecology.
In 2021, Amirah founded Sistah Seeds to connect black and brown growers to our culturally-important seeds. Sistah Seeds is one of a small but growing number of black-owned seed businesses in the U.S., changing the landscape of the seed industry. Together, we are part of a multi-ethnic, multi-national movement of farmers and seed-keepers, working to preserve our heritage and create a strong agricultural future for our communities.