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On a FARM in Maryland that was once a STOP on the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, PAULETTE GREENE and DONNA DEAR have created a new model for CLIMATE JUSTICE and found a different kind of FREEDOM

TEXT BY KAITLYN GREENIDGE

When you visit Paulette Greene and Donna Dear, you have to bring something with you. For our offering, we’ve chosen cheesesteaks. Paulette and Donna exploded into the internet’s consciousness this past summer after a short documentary about them, The Aunties, premiered at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia. The couple have been married for nearly a decade but together for 50 years. They’re also stewards of Mt. Pleasant Acres Farms, a 111-acre parcel of land in Preston, Maryland, that they’ve transformed into what they hope can be a new paradigm for community and climate justice. The farm was once part of a plantation where the abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman’s family was enslaved and that later became a stop on the Underground Railroad. It is, notably, the site of the Witness…

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