Category: Agriculture

Why African People Should Raise our own Food
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Why African People Should Raise our own Food

From large scale farms to backyard gardens, it is important for Black people to grow and produce our own food.  Black people have a strong history of food production. Before colonialism and slavery, African people were growing, raising, hunting, and fishing for our own food in a sustainable way.  We were people who produced life...

November 3, 2020June 4, 2021by
5 Vegetables That Are Easy To Grow For A Kid-Friendly Garden
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5 Vegetables That Are Easy To Grow For A Kid-Friendly Garden

Some Tips Before You Get Started: Buy some garden tools designed for children that are smaller in size and most of the time offer additional safety. Allow children to decorate and personalize their pots! When sowing seeds or transplanting your starter plants, space them out with a little extra room in between. This will help to...

May 13, 2020June 5, 2021by
AAPDEP Houston Building for  a Sustainable Future
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AAPDEP Houston Building for a Sustainable Future

AAPDEP is growing by leaps and bounds in Houston, TX where we’ve had a community garden for the past 6 years.   The garden has been the center of our work here which is part of AAPDEP’s objective to build organizers that will carry out the work of building self-sustaining communities throughout the world.   It is...

February 27, 2017May 13, 2021by
Watermelon A delicious Healthy Food of Africa
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Watermelon A delicious Healthy Food of Africa

Watermelon is one of the superfoods that comes from Africa.  This delicious and nutritious food is enjoyed all over the word, but many people don’t know it originated on the African continent. It is widely believed that watermelons originated in southern Africa.  This vine like plant was cultivate by Africans in the Nile valley at...

October 31, 2016May 13, 2021by
AAPDEP Houston needs your help
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AAPDEP Houston needs your help

Houston is AAPDEP’s long-standing agriculture project and is currently still going strong today.  If you are in the Houston area and are interested in helping to keep this project going, join AAPDEP and come out to the garden to lend a hand. This garden is here to provide for the community. Every helping hand matters. Let’s build...

October 21, 2016May 13, 2021by
White power to blame for devastation in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
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White power to blame for devastation in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

To those colonial and neocolonialist leaders, as well as parasitic organizations expressing concern for Africans in Haiti, we say “hands off of Haiti!” Hands off Haiti, hands off Africa and hands off Africans wherever we were forcefully displaced on this planet! Free Haiti!  Join AAPDEP Today! by Elikya Ngoma, African People’s Socialist Party AYITI––Over 850...

October 11, 2016May 13, 2021by
AAPDEP North Alabama Chapter launches community garden in Decatur
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AAPDEP North Alabama Chapter launches community garden in Decatur

Following in a long line of true African Development projects, the All African Peoples Development and Empowerment Project has started a community garden in Decatur, Alabama, a town about 25 miles away from our organization’s headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama.  The new AAPDEP garden, located in the heart of the African community of Decatur, on land...

August 5, 2016May 13, 2021by
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