Ryan Tenney is a returning generation farmer and artist in his 11th growing season. He is the owner of Sankara Farm founded in 2017 and the founder of a community arts organization, AgroArt, a 2017 Charlotte Street Rocket Grant awardee. His artistic practice has accompanied and anticipated his agricultural work. In response to the current and ongoing crisis, his work in food sovereignty and culture has allowed him to ‘make himself useful’ as an artist producing cultural work, a farmer producing organic produce, and in social movements, supporting mutual aid, sustainable agriculture, and art education projects.