Organization: Earth-Bound Building

Dom is a farmer, builder, and educator focused on supporting farms and land-based cooperatives with infrastructure support and cooperative development. He believes we must prioritize locally-owned, productive enterprises that honor nature & community, provide dignified wages, and generate a sustainable revenue to build resiliency against an increasingly unstable world.

Dom is currently a worker-owner with Earth-Bound Building, a construction cooperative based in Southern Maryland. Earth-Bound grew out of the agroecology organizing process led by Black Dirt Farm Collective and the call for infrastructure on many of the small Black farms in the region. Since then, Earth-Bound has supported farms and farmers from Maryland to rural Georgia to Brazil and Puerto Rico. Earth-Bound’s deep connection to the movement also led Dom to work with the Climate Justice Alliance to provide technical assistance to beginner cooperatives in their network.

When not covered in sawdust or discussing solidarity economics, Dom runs a small vegetable farm, Steptoe Farm, spends time in nature with his daughter, and practices jiu jitsu.