In the last few weeks, the Rural Routes Design Lab + Studio has gone from vision to action. We officially welcomed our inaugural cohort of artists whose projects are deeply rooted in rural Mississippi.
Main Street Farmers Market Summer season 2025 has been a place to learn about our community’s food system, support our local growers, and enjoy fresh and healthy food. This year, the Sipp Culture team, along with the Main Street staff, added a new addition to the farmer’s market by inviting local vendors of all varieties to bring their products to the Utica community.
This week, ElderShare successfully prepared 116 pounds of fresh greens to 20 Utica residents, featuring swiss chard alongside mustards and collards.
ElderShare provides weekly deliveries of fresh produce to Utica residents aged 60 and over.
Stories Shared by Jonathan Trimble and Robin Carraway – Sipp Culture Community Farm is a place of peace, team work, development, learning and growth.
On Saturday, March 22nd, we celebrated the start of our 2025 annual plant sale and welcomed visitors to an open house tour of our organization’s new addition at the Main Street Cultural Center.
On Sunday, March 30, Sipp Culture welcomed the National Black Food and Justice Alliance and friends to the Main Street Cultural Center in Utica.
The Main Street Cultural Center is officially open! From Friday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 4th, the Grand Opening Weekend had community members filing the space with excitement and joy.
The team at Sipp Culture, would like to publicly say thank you to Noah White, our outgoing Farm Manager at the Sipp Culture Community Farm. Noah will be heading back to Georgia this spring to manage his own land and farming operations. We are really proud and excited for his next journey and also sad that he is leaving so soon.
Joining Wallace’s multiyear arts initiative launched in 2021, Sipp Culture will to explore how artists can serve as, and also support, community health workers to enhance the health and wellness of the rural Black community of Utica.
On Earth Day 2023, Sipp Co-Director Carlton Turner delivered the keynote address at the Salt of the Earth National Encuentro: Cultivating Climate, Food, and Land Justice convening in Madera, California.
On February 17th, Sipp Culture Community Farms was privileged to host the 99th gathering of the Alliance of Sustainable Farms for the Alliance Field Day.
Our work starts in and directly engages the community of Utica, Mississippi in our day-to-day practice. We support community engaged design, cultural production, and community development.
“One of the most rewarding projects of 2021 was also one that pushed us to stretch our creativity and skills the most.” Guest Writer Ennis Carter, Director of Social Impact Studios shares the story of the new Sipp Culture website.
This year, 25 community members signed up to receive 5 to 7 lbs of fresh produce every week through ElderShare, a program of the Sipp Culture Community Farm that links generations in Utica, MS. Learn more about the program here.
Read about the first new construction on Main Street in many years – an 1800 square foot climate controlled, fully automated greenhouse as part of the Sipp Culture Community Farm.
The Sipp Culture Community Farm launched the ElderShare Summer program as part of our commitment to supporting the seniors in our community with access to fresh locally sourced produce in Utica, MS.
Equitable Food Futures team member Erica Kohl-Arenas shares the experience of coming back to Utica for community focus groups.
Recently, we launched our Small Farm Apprenticeship program in the early spring. This 18-month program provides a nurturing and creative working environment.
Sipp Culture was awarded $580,000 in philanthropic funding to support Artist Relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sipp Culture Lead Artist / Director, Carlton Turner, was named a fellow by the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program, an initiative of the Robert Woods
Sipp Culture is partnering with the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) to engage the community across the 39175 ZIP code. The 18-month community-engaged design
Sipp Culture advocates for broadband internet access. By creating more access to digital infrastructure, our community will have a better sense of the points of
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