2025 Impact: BRIDGE Solidarity Gardens Cultivate Food System Change
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BRIDGE is grateful to have opened our home and the Fawohodie Sanctuary Center to community this her in January 2025. Over the past year, we were honored to host World Healing Lab; the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Equity Fund; TKO Collective and Fresh Greens Market’s Gumptown Fresh Retreat; Happiness Toolbox; and Tanglewood presenter Baba Israel through our youth training programs. We also welcomed gatherings such as the MLK Day of Service, performances by Craig Harris and the Tailgaters, and the At Buffalo Scholartist team for the Du Bois Sculpture Unveiling—and so much more.
The Sanctuary is a place for repair and healing.
At the Farm, we expanded to our new homesite and hosted an MDAR tour with elected officials. We welcomed Eagle Academy Community Service Learning projects at both the Fairgrounds and the Solidarity House, and hosted 14 Solidarity Growers throughout the season.
We convened food policy meetings and shared countless multicultural community dinners featuring Haitian, Indigenous, Latine, Trinidadian, and African cuisines.
Our Meeting House is a space for sharing, belonging, nourishment, repair, and collective planning.
Fawohodie (also spelled Fawodhodie) means freedom, independence, and emancipation in the Akan language of Ghana. It is also a powerful Adinkra symbol expressing the truth that independence comes with responsibility, drawn from the phrase Fawodhodie ene obre na enam. The symbol represents self-determination, personal liberty, and taking charge of one’s destiny—while honoring the duties that accompany freedom.