Local Entrepreneur Shows How Urban Farming Can Address Inner-City Food Deserts
“Agriculture affects us all. And we all need to eat. We all do better when we have local food grown closer to us,” Western said
By Emily Haugen
CCX
September 25, 2026
Excerpt:
Sandwiched cozily between two houses in north Minneapolis, Todd Western IV tends to his crops. It’s the location of Freedom Farms, where he grows Malabar spinach, okra and collard greens, to name a few.
“It became more important to me at that time to use my family’s legacy as Black farmers to grow food here, in a place that needs fresh food,” Western said.
The word “farm” often brings to mind a very specific visual in the Midwest: open pastures, rows of corn and soybeans, a big red barn. That’s similar to what the Western family’s farm looks like in Iowa, one of the oldest Black-owned farms in that state. But Western’s newest venture in north Minneapolis is different.
Western, a seventh-generation farmer, grew up in Minnesota, but would often visit his grandparents on the Iowa farm and help out with planting. At the time, farming wasn’t of much interest to him. That changed when his father took over the operation and Western got to help out. The Western family farm is one of the last 10 Black-owned farms in the state of Iowa, according to the family’s website.
“I felt more of responsibility than anything, honestly, to kind of hold my foot in that door since we already have that place of privilege,” Western said.
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