Adamaah Grayse

Adamaah grew up on the Eastside of Buffalo, NY and attended Buffalo Academy of Visual & Performing Arts (BAVPA) high-school majoring in Fine Arts. She earned a B.S. in Business Studies and a M.S. in Student Personnel Administration from Buffalo State College. After working in higher education and small business development in the greater Washington DC area, she decided to take her love of growing food to the next level by moving to Atlanta, GA to attend Truly Living Well Center for Urban Agriculture where she trained as an organic farmer. Adamaah ran farmer's markets, served in a Black farmer's cooperative, then moved to Baltimore, MD where she further trained to farm, and co-lead the Baltimore City Residence Food Advisory Committee. She returned to the nonprofit world at Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Farmer-to-Farmer program where she built a digital agricultural library for her program’s clients and recruited other African-American agriculturalists to become international volunteers for the program. In 2022, Adamaah returned home to Buffalo where she served as a New York State Public Health Corps (NYSPHC) Graduate Fellow doing Food Justice Organizing on behalf of Grassroots Gardens WNY and becoming a JROF LOC Fellow.  In early 2024 she purchased land and is in the process of building “Adamaah’s Bedouin Farms”. Her plan is to partner with grassroots organizations to offer programs to teach their clients and members how to grow their own nutritious food, various preservation techniques and the process for creating value-added products.