Legacy Taste of the Garden’s mission is to empower Indiana BIPOC farmers, individuals and communities to become self-sustaining and economically sound through education, networking and providing information toward a healthy, sustainable, empowered life. Each year, Legacy hosts five Black Loam Conference events throughout Indiana to reach BIPOC farmers and producers. Our 2024 focus was on strategically building sustainability and community wealth for BIPOC and historically underserved farmers and businesses.
Farmer Gratitude:
“My name is Joseph Tutte. I’m the managing partner of Crooked Fork Land and Cattle. We are a family cow-calf operation and we also do some row crop vegetable farming. And when I first met John and Denise Jamerson of Legacy Taste of the Garden, I was given the honor to speak and present at their Black Loam Conference. I considered it a great honor. One of the key things that I thought was important was to help provide other underserved farmers and ranchers with new techniques to make their soil more healthy. And most important was to increase their production and their yields on their farms.
And so I just wanted to say thank you to both of them and the Legacy Taste of the Garden for giving me the opportunity to bring the things that we do here in central Texas on our farm and our ranch and growing our crops and the things that we do to help make our soil more healthy, to practice sustainability and regenerative agriculture and bring new knowledge to other farmers and ranchers so they can do the same thing. Improve their soil health, increase their production and most important of all to increase their bottom line. So from the bottom of our heart here at Crooked Fork Ranch, which is the headquarters of Crooked Fork Land and Cattle, we’d like to say thank you to John and Denise Jamerson of Legacy Taste of the Garden and Lyle Station. As we say back here at the Fork: Welcome to the Fork, from our pasture to your plate and from our field to your fork.”
