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Jamila Norman
Jamila Norman a.k.a (Farmer J) is a first generation
daughter to Caribbean parents, whose history is rooted in agriculture. She is an internationally recognized urban farmer, food activist and mother based in Atlanta, GA. She is a University of Georgia graduate with a degree in Environmental Engineering. For the past 10 years, Jamila has been committed fully to operating her independent, organic
urban farm, Patchwork City Farms, which she founded 2010. In 2014 she served as a US delegate to Slow Food’s Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, in Turin, Italy.
Jamila and her farm have been featured in various
publications including Modern Farmer Magazine, The Library of Congress, and Southern Foodways Alliance oral history project. Jamila is also one of the founding member and current manager of the South West Atlanta Growers Cooperative (SWAG Coop), formed in 2010 as a cooperative centered around black urban farmers in Atlanta’s burgeoning urban agriculture movement. Most recently Jamila has joined Discovery’s new TV network “Magnolia” as a host
for her new show “Home Grown”, helping families transform their backyards into working farms.
“Farming is an ethical orientation toward generosity, abundance, care, joy, and love. Farming allows us to understand how we want to live and grow.”
A Vision for the Future of PCF
PCF seeks to be a place that not only grows healthy, organic vegetables, but also grows the people that set foot on it. We believe in whole wellness–– a vision of health that is not only informed by what we put into our bodies, but also how we nourish our minds, our neighbors, and the land. Our greatest purpose is to become a model of immersive wellness, activated by people, and sustained by our collective vision for healing and connection to nature and each other.
RECLAMATION
PCF is a reclamation of health, the relationship of
people and nature, and personal wholeness.
IMMERSIVE WELLNESS
We represent the coming together of food,
community, learning, health, and nature for a
more integrated and accessible vision of wellness.
RE-ORIENTATION
PCF seeks to be the the model for the Atlanta community
toward a re-orientation and redefinition of care, connection,
abundance, wonder, and wellness.
We get lots of visitors at PCF. From practicing yogis to families picking up their CSA boxes, to curious on-lookers who finally decided to walk over and check out the farm in the middle of their neighborhood. We’re charged to do our part in sharing the magic of how healthy food and natural spaces can transform our health.
We want to offer a space where locals can take an outdoor cooking class, and then purchase the produce needed to make that meal at home for their friends and families. In the spirit of whole wellness, we offer visitors an experience that inspires a connection back to nature and to our bodies through food, education, and exploration.
Your support will go directly to our mission by currently preserving and expanding Patchwork City Farms, paying our farmers, taking care of our volunteers. Thank you!
- Farmer' J
Support our Vision for Patchwork City Farms
Join us in redefining and building wellness, community, and prosperity in the West End.
If you’re an institution, non-profit, and interested in higher level sponsorships, please email us at farmerj@patchworkcityfarms.com and we would be happy to share our Expansion deck with you and happy to chat further.