VERONA, Wi. — Urban Triage hosted their Annual Harvest Festival at the Farley Center on Saturday. The group’s goal is to set up Madison’s black community for success through transformative education, self-sufficiency, and agriculture.
Urban Triage has farmland at the Farley Center. The event featured an African drum march to their crops, celebrating the land that has yielded so much food in the last year.
They have a vision to empower transformation in the black community through education, community, and agriculture.
“The idea is that we need to meet people where they’re at and offer them other opportunities and environments for different experiences and teach them how to utilize tools that help them feel empowered and inspired and transformed,” said Brandi Grayson, Urban Triage’s CEO.
It takes a community to make Urban Triage thrive, and that’s what they’ve built.
“It allows us to have community with people that are different from ourselves, right, and that’s like step one. I mean if we’re thinking about a world where everyone can thrive, and not just survive, but really be themselves, we need to think about race,” said Catherine Orr, an Urban Triage board member.
By connecting with people and teaching them, they’ve proved you create your own paradigm, see the world in a different way, and forge your own path.
“I mean that’s what this is, this is community. This is what it looks like when you invest in your community, this is what it looks like when you trust the people who have lived experience and you trust them to do the work, this is what it looks like, it creates infinite possibilities,” Grayson said.
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