Azeem Zakir Kareem is a farmer, educator, organizer, and advocate for the BIPOC farming community in Connecticut and nationwide. He is the co-founder of Samad Gardens Initiative, a farm business with rural and urban production centers, whose mission is to bridge the food and farm education access gap to the BIPOC community in central Connecticut and beyond. This National Young Farmer Grant award will be used to support the ownership transfer and transformation of a vacant lot into an urban farm, to produce fresh produce and expose community youth to the possibilities in urban agriculture.