Black Earth Day

🪴 Seed to Soul 🪴

Saturday, April 18th | 10am - 3pm
At the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center

Black Earth Day in Spokane Washington will be held at the MLK Center on April 18th, 2026

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Planting Seeds of Resilience in Our Community

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Cultivating Community Through Food and Stewardship

Black Earth Day highlights the unique environmental challenges and leadership within Black communities. It calls for an inclusive environmental movement that centers Black experiences, addresses disproportionate impacts from pollution and climate change, and honors traditions of land stewardship.

Growing Neighbors Community Garden Map
Join us for Meaningful Movies, highlighting community leadership, environmental justice, and the power of urban agriculture.

Our vision is to cultivate a Black-led farming collective that creates meaningful opportunities for the Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. As well as youth, those who are economically disadvantaged and/or living in food deserts. With the goal to build resilience through growing food, composting, recycling, and creative repurposing. By creating a welcoming place for shared learning, questions, and collective action. We are planting the seeds for long term food sovereignty, land stewardship, and community empowerment.
Black Earth Day is a hands-on, community-centered experience designed to equip and empower our community with the tools to grow, sustain, and steward our environment.
Attendees will participate in interactive workshops covering topics such as how to amend soil for healthy plant growth, understanding climate zones for successful growing in our region, locating local community gardens, and mastering general plant care. Whether someone is brand new to gardening or looking to deepen their knowledge, there will be practical education they can immediately apply.
Vendors and community partners will offer free resources, seeds, educational materials, and opportunities for advocacy. Families and youth will be encouraged to engage, ask questions, and explore how growing food can become both a personal practice and a pathway toward collective resilience.
Black Earth Day is more than an event. It is a space to learn, connect, and cultivate power through food, sustainability, and community.
- Grant Community Garden
  - Grant Part - E 9th Ave, Spokane WA 99202
- Eden Community Gardens
  - 15515 Gleneden, Spokane WA 99208
- Mission Meadows Community Garden
  - N Pierce Rd, Spoakne Valley WA
    South of E Maxwell Ave
- Sn̓k̓ʷan̓ɬqtn̓ Community Garden
  - 4219 N Oak St, Spokane WA
- Millwood Community Garden
  - 3800 N Argonne Rd, Spokane WA
- Hartson Ave Communtiy Garden
  - 3244 E Harson Ave, Spokane WA
Washington Farmland Trust
Spokane Regional Health District
The Carl Maxey Center
GLOW Children (Lumen Early Learning Center)
SCAR
River City Youth
YMCA Inland Northwest
The Plucky Duck
Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water and the Environment
Growing Neighbors
Spokane Public Library
The Lands Council
350 Spokane
Canopy Credit Union
Spokane for Whole Washington
City of Spokane Emergency Management
Refugee & Immigrant Connections Spokane
Spokane County Regional Waste Ambassadors
SNAP (Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners)
DentisLink
Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency
Reliance Medicare Helpline
Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington
The Fig Tree
Spokane Edible Tree Project - https://www.spokaneedibletreeproject.org
Growing Neighbors - https://growingneighbors.org
- How to Compost

Growing Together, Thriving Together

DIY Tutorials

Hands-on DIY tutorials will demonstrate how to creatively repurpose everyday materials into practical, sustainable solutions that reduce waste and empower self-sufficiency.

Free Vendor Items

Free seeds and select vendor items will be available to attendees while supplies last, so we encourage everyone to arrive early and participate.

Resource Fair

A free community resource fair will connect attendees with local organizations, tools, and educational materials to support sustainable living and community resilience.

Food & More

Free lunch will be provided while supplies last, and as the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center operates a food bank, we encourage participants to bring a non-perishable food item to support neighbors in need.

Words From our Committee

"The reason I wanted to create a Black Earth Day event is to bring our community together. It really goes back to when Sandy Williams purchased the building that would become the Carl Maxey Center back when it was just an old auto garage shop. We used to gather there and dream about what it could become and what it could do for our community."

I remember saying, “I don’t know who I’m going to be working for, but I know I’m going to have an office on the second floor overlooking a garden and a water fountain in the back.” That vision always stayed with me.
For generations, our community has come together in places like barbershops and hair salons—spaces where we connect, share stories, and build with one another. Gardening can be that same kind of space. When we put our hands in the soil, we reconnect with the earth and with the wisdom of our ancestors.
Black Earth Day is about creating that space. It’s a chance for us to come together, grow food, learn skills, share our history, and build something sustainable for our community while being good stewards of the earth.
Duaa-Rahemaah Hunter
Black Earth Day Committee Chairwoman
“Black Earth Day is impactful because it reminds us that sustainability isn’t just about protecting the planet, it’s about protecting people. When we reclaim our relationship to land, food, and stewardship, we’re not just planting seeds in soil, we’re planting resilience, ownership, and power in our communities.”

Jeremiah Keevy
Black Earth Day Committee Member

Let’s Grow Together 🌱✨

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