Community Food Systems Mentor Profile: Rev Dele

The Community Food Systems Mentorship Program offers Network members the opportunity to work directly with a food systems expert to support their growth, learn best practices, and connect with seasoned food movement leaders.

Rev Dele, Grandmother Elder, Earthkeeper, Mystic

Soil & Souls
Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust
REVDELE Ministries

About Dele:
Rev Dele is a grandmother elder, earthkeeper, mystic whose work blends an earth based spirituality with ecological sciences in order to achieve climate and economic justice. She maintains that justice begins with inner balance and then spreads into just relationships between land, workers, economic and political systems. She shares her work in speaking engagements and consulting with farming communities. As a co-founder of Soil & Souls, she co-leads a community of practice in L’nu wisdom in the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) Valley of New York. She co-convened the Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust to secure land for the farmers involved in the community of practice.

Areas of Expertise

Permaculturist/Indigenous land management
Cultivating personal strength from the land
Regional/National distribution networking for herbalists
Northeast food networks
Cooperative business structures

Seeking to Mentor

I wish to work with Black herb growers and food leaders who:

Want to grow personally
Have interest in Indigenous land management for market
Wish to cultivate strength from the land
Want assistance shifting their communities from hobby farming to regenerative food systems
Want to explore new strategies to engage faith communities in food sovereignty
Are interested in cooperative business structures and communally owned land