Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Podcast Description
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is disrupting sustainability storytelling and amplifying Black and Afro-Indigenous voices shaping a new narrative for liberation, cultural preservation, and planetary healing. From doulas and scientists to farmers and fashion designers, our guests are visionaries redefining what it means to build a sustainable future. This is an unapologetically intersectional, intergenerational, and global space celebrating the power of Black regenerative practices. Each episode is a dynamic fireside chat with changemakers across the Black diaspora, whose expertise and experiences span industries and identities. Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is more than a conversation—it’s an archive, a call to action, and a blueprint for the futures we’re creating for us, by us.
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The show primarily focuses on sustainability, cultural preservation, and planetary healing through the voices of Black and Afro-Indigenous changemakers. Episodes highlight diverse topics like conscious fashion with industry leaders like Nia Thomas, who discusses ethical luxury, and marine science represented by guests such as Dr. Tiara Moore, who brings attention to challenges faced by Black scientists. The podcast aims to redefine what sustainability looks like in various industries and identities.
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is a podcast centering Black sustainability leaders across fashion, agriculture, wellbeing and beyond. Through storytelling, culture, and climate conversations, the show explores how ancestral wisdom and modern practices can cultivate regenerative futures. Hosted by Dominique Drakeford, each episode unearths powerful insights that shift the narrative of environmental justice.
What if sustainability wasn’t about systems—but about freedom? About waking up and choosing rest, joy, or stillness—because you can?
In this healing-rich episode, Dominique Drakeford sits down with Cory Elliott, the heart and visionary behind The Black Neighborhood—a powerful grassroots ecosystem centering Black joy, safety, nourishment, and liberation. Together, they unravel a definition of sustainability most don’t dare to imagine: a life with options.
“Being sustainable means having the option to say, ‘Today I’m going to rest. Today I’m going to make that smoothie I love. Today I get to choose.”
From free farmers markets and college readiness programs to mental health hikes that have literally saved lives, The Black Neighborhood isn’t about disruption for disruption’s sake—it’s about care as a counter-force. Movement as medicine. Gathering as a revolutionary act.
“The point of our hikes isn’t to be a disruption. It’s to take care of ourselves. And that self-care? That becomes the disruption.”
Cory shares raw, soul-deep reflections on what it means to build a world where Black people can be seen, safe, and sovereign.
“Waking up every day and still being Black is one of the biggest revolutionary acts there are, period.”
This episode is a balm and a blueprint. For those of us who know that sustainability has to be more than solar panels and zero-waste jars—it has to be about power, peace, and possibility. It has to be about us.
https://www.theblackneighborhood.org/
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows: the space where Black & Afro-Indigenous Vanguards are redefining sustainability through storytelling!
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