Yemi Amu: 'Tell the pH by Smelling the Water' — A Brooklyn Farmer On Human Instinct vs. AI | Ep. 8
Yemi Amu is the founder and director of Oko Farms — New York City's first and only public accessible outdoor aquaponics farm, which she established in Brooklyn in 2013.
She's an aquaponics expert, educator, and cultural steward who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, came to New York for undergrad (supposed to do law school and go home), and found her calling not in law, music publishing, or sci-fi writing, but in the soil.
Her farm grows Nigerian vegetables, fiber crops, indigo, and medicine plants — not just as food, but as living acts of cultural reclamation and ancestral practice.
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