HEAL Food Alliance

2026 School of Political Leadership 

Solar Community Farm

Sun Smith

(they/them)

Farmer

SoPL is important right now, because more than ever, people are collectively realizing the harm that extractive land practices are creating. We are aware of the future that we are developing for the future generations, and we must shift our actions immediately. I hope to get the education and connections necessary to raise money for my community and I to become more interconnected with the land, through food growing, medicine making, and overall stewardship practices. Money is weaponized, and we are seeking to use it to create healing, instead of harm.

Meet Sun

Sun Smith is a beginning farmer, budding cook and baker, painter, and lover of ancestral pathways. They are trans-nonbinary mixed-race Korean and white person who lives and grows food on the ancestral homelands of the Aniyunwiya/Cherokee peoples, colonially known as Greenville, SC. Their passion for life lies in understanding the invisible forces that move and shape our world. Through this fellowship, they hope to work on healing the wounds that exist particularly in the QTBIPOC and disabled communities, as well as their families. You can follow them @sunsmithoutside on instagram. 
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