Medicine Bowl
Our mission is to heal our relationship with the planet, the land, and one another.
Kifu Kamau Faruq
1973 - 2024
It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our beloved Founder, Co-Director, and Friend, Kifu Kamau Faruq.
Surrounded by loved ones, Kifu transitioned in the early hours of May 10th, 2024, after a journey with “Crystal” her euphemism for cancer. Read our full statement →
Our Mission and Vision
Medicine Bowl envisions a Global South with sustainable institutions which recognize the connections we have to one another, the planet, and to spirit. This is liberation.
Medicine Bowl is a relationship fueled queer and trans, Black and Indigenous led land-based strategy for liberation.
We are a constellation of organizers, farmers, medicine people, and land stewards who believe we can nourish, feed, house & build alternative infrastructures for our communities and ourselves.
Nestled in the Green Mountains of Western North Carolina, Medicine Bowl is a home and a hub for healing and movement building in the Global South.
Our Theory of Change
We are Black, Indigenous, Brown, Queer, & Trans Visionaries who understand the relationship between land and power. Medicine Bowl envisions a 2, 20, and 200 year strategy for liberation for the Global South.
A key focus of that being building power, resilience, and healing with communities of color — particularly Black and Indigenous peoples of this land: the Lumbee, and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. In addition, we are a resource for rural white poor Southerners, who seek to be in right relationship with BIPOC communities and land.