Potlikker Capital

Mark Watson, Co-Founder, President

Economic Mobility

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Potlikker Capital is a farm community-governed charitable integrated capital fund created to holistically serve BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) farmers in America who operate at the intersection of racial and climate justice.

Year Founded: 2020

Potlikker Capital is committed to preserving and increasing the diversity of America’s farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers who covenant to:

  • Increase equitable access to healthy food for their communities
  • Build wealth and knowledge within their local BIPOC farming communities
  • Farm to address climate change through adopting regenerative farming practices

BIPOC farmers disproportionately face the detrimental impacts of institutional oppression. The agricultural players have deprived farmers of access to capital. Reparative capital is needed to build thriving businesses and shift control and power back to marginalized communities to support self-determination. 

As a charitable loan fund, Potlikker takes an integrated capital approach to deploy “reparative capital” using a combination of non-extractive investments, zero and low-interest loans, and grants and recoverable grants. They acknowledge that debt should be on society’s balance sheet, not only on the farmer. Potlikker work with BIPOC farming enterprises in the US that still suffer from a lack of access to capital due to the agricultural financial sector’s reluctance and unwillingness to take on the risks of smallholder farmers of color and their transitions to regenerative farming practices.

Mark Watson Potlikker Capital

Mark Watson

Co-Founder, President

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