ReDEFINING Food

ReBORN FARMS is a model of the future, aiming to create a systemic shift that builds long-term resiliency, generate businesses and economic opportunities, as well as providing environmental and societal benefits in The Bronx.

Many communities within The Bronx lack consistent access to food that is affordable and healthy. This presents a growing need for a hyper-local and sustainable social enterprise focused on increasing access to nutritious food and health education.

Our decentralized system is a holistic model that considers and impacts everyone along the food chain, with a focus on those marginalized by the current system of food apartheid. We have developed our own inclusive production, distribution and retail together with local community residents, food workers and consumers being at the forefront of our model.

Focused on Bronx residents, engaging those in the South Bronx, NYCHA, which will benefit from having direct access to sustainably grown, organic hyper-local produce, harvested in their neighborhood. This model is created for the local population to address their needs and restructure a food system that has been a pillar of Food Apartheid for generations, and turn it into a revolutionary open concept to food, nutrition and access. Shifting the current paradigm of scarcity to one where abundance is a cornerstone, taking into account quality of life issues, as the concept of Ecogastronomy and sustainability will be embedded, with all around economic development resulting from our collective efforts.

We are tackling the issues of food insecurity, coupled with challenges of equitable access to nutritionally dense foods and education. In addition, we are contributing to building a green workforce that will be included in a model that focuses on the distribution of wealth restoration. The wealth which has been withheld to those living in disinvested, systematically biased and poverty-stricken areas like my home, The Bronx; the poorest urban congressional district in the United States. Year after year, The Bronx also ranks the lowest #62 out of 62 factors in health outcomes.