Whitney Jaye is a farmer, organizer, agrarian artist, memory worker and mother from the Lower Cape Fear River and coastal waters of Wilmington, North Carolina, currently based in Georgia.
She stewards a creative ecosystem of projects focused on remembering, practicing, and preserving Southern Black agrarian culture.
calabash arts
agrarian futures community archive
sunbird flowers
about me.
lets connect.
“Occasionally the river floods these places. ‘Floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” Toni Morrison
video from my homeplace - wrightsville beach/wilmington, north carolina; april 7, 2024.