DC Natives Block Captain Spotlight: Adam

Meet DC Natives Block Captain Adam, a DC native himself who hails from Congress Heights in Ward 8 and now reps North Michigan Park in Ward 5. Adam signed up to become a DC Natives leader to connect with his community and also for selfish reasons, he confessed.

“I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to be neighborly. Also, if I’m able to improve the pollinator population in my area, it would improve the crops that I grow,” said Adam, who has a micro farm and is just starting mycology or growing mushrooms. Adam runs SoufEast Farm, which provides “culturally significant produce for the diaspora.”

Q: What’s your favorite pollinator?
A: Bees. Because they are fuzzy and I’ve been told that if you vibrate at a certain frequency then they return that vibration at a healing frequency. Also, beekeepers have the longest living professions.

Q: At what point did you realize you were a gardener?
A: I’m a farmer or a land steward. I want to be more of a land steward. I am trying to make money off the land so that’s what makes me a gardener.

Q: What is your favorite part about being a DC Natives Block Captain?
A: Meeting my neighbors. I know that there is a certain visual juxtaposition in that I look a certain way, but I am perceived in a different way. I enjoy enhancing certain people’s ideas of DC locals or DC natives.