Closure of the Ummah Sustained Agroecology Center Everett, WA
– Effective July 1, 2025
Modest Family Solutions was born from urgency, faith, and fierce love during the pandemic—meeting the needs of thousands with culturally relevant food, halal meat education, youth development, and land-based healing. Our Ummah Sustained Agroecology Center in Everett has served as a sanctuary for many, especially during a time when our community needed it most.
Today, we announce the formal closure of the Agroecology Center in Everett, Wa on July 1, 2025.
This decision, though difficult, is rooted in transparency and integrity. Our closure is not simply the result of a seasonal shift—it is the cumulative impact of multiple broken promises by institutions that claimed to be aligned with equity, sustainability, and land justice.
Impact of Broken Institutional Commitments
Over the past two years, Modest Family Solutions has faced severe operational and financial harm due to the following:
USDA Contract Cancellations: Despite being initially awarded funding to expand halal meat access, food education, and youth training, federal contract delays and unexplained cancellations disrupted our entire farm-to-community supply chain.
Agrarian Trust Misalignment and Withheld Support: Our collaboration with a national land trust—who leveraged our story (including the arson attack on Black Seed Farm) for fundraising—resulted in broken agreements and undelivered funds. Despite verbal commitments of over $100,000 in land support, board transitions, and collaboration stipends, we received only a fraction of what was promised, forcing us to backfill emergency costs out-of-pocket.
Local Government Inconsistency: State and county-level program withdrawals and delays further destabilized our ability to provide consistent youth programming, pay stipends, and maintain infrastructure for community wellness.
As a result, over $250,000 invested by our community & founder has gone unreimbursed. These systemic breaches are not just logistical—they are traumatic, extractive, and unjust.
What Comes Next
Even as we close this chapter, our movement continues:
Black Seed Agroecology Village & Farm on Whidbey Island remains our living laboratory of land justice, spiritual refuge, and agroecological learning.
Global Citizens Passport We are entering a season of sabbatical, visioning, and digital replanting. This journey now extends beyond borders and land—inviting freedom dreamers, youth leaders, and elders-in-the-making to join us as we reimagine fitrah-based grounding, food justice, and collective sovereignty in a virtual village.
Rooted in spiritual practice, ancestral knowledge, and cultural remembrance, the Passport is a living curriculum that honors where we come from and reimagines where we’re going.
We will continue to fight for Black and Indigenous land sovereignty, ethical food systems, and intergenerational healing wherever we root.
We hold grief and gratitude in equal measure. Thank you to every family who trusted us, every volunteer who showed up, and every child who planted something here.
We are not disappearing—we are deepening.
With strength, clarity, and devotion, Al Hamdulillah for everything.
Adasha Turner
Founder & Executive Director
Modest Family Solutions
www.modestfamilysolutions.org