High Hog Farm
Keisha Cameron
High Hog Farm is a family affair and a passion and mission for the Camerons. While foodways for the kitchen and pantry are a major product of the farm, so too is fiber and all the ways around that fiber.
For Keisha Cameron, reaching into the historic and cultural roots of spinning and fiber work fuels her passion of sharing the family’s stories from the farm, land-based skills and building healthy, connected communities. Farm tours and stays help visitors explore the spaces between food, fiber, culture and community. Keisha offers classes in processing raw fiber, hand spinning, and fresh leaf indigo dyeing as well as a community indigo day. Other workshops address the learning needs of small farms, from drone technology for photos and mapping, to grow-alongs. See a video.
Recently Keisha toured Ladakh, India, and the greater Tibetan region as part of the Tibetan Rural & Green Business Training and Exchange Program hosted by Columbia University. The program's goal is to support Tibetan economic development and cultural preservation. She was part of a hand-selected cohort of eight US Fellows who met with Tibetan pastoralists, shepherds, textile artisans and entrepreneurs living in exile in the Ladakhi region. She shared some of her experience on her Instagram.
Check out Keisha Cameron's conversation with Anne Merrow on The Long Thread Podcast.
Keisha Cameron is the Lead Cultivator of High Hog Farm. She provides much of the creative vision for the farm, their programs, and community engagement. From sowing indigenous, heirloom crops to exploring Black agrarianism, and ancestral arts, Keisha looks to foster growth wherever she can. Whenever she's not weeding a bed, seeding a tray, or administering care to one of the animals, she's working with fiber from the farm's rabbits and sheep. highhog.farm
