ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月12日 05時01分

Mateo Mackbee and Erin Lucas left Minneapolis for a small central Minnesota community, where they are using their restaurant, bakery and farm to expand on their mission of racial justice.

“I had grown kind of weary of the restaurant scene in the Twin Cities, where it was hard for someone like myself,” Mackbee said. “I’m a little bit older and a little bit darker than most of the people on the line.”

Two years ago, Mackbee, 47, and Lucas, 27, his girlfriend and business partner, moved to St. Joseph, a community that is more than 90% white. Although the small city is in a part of Minnesota known for its divisive politics around immigration and race, Mackbee opened @krewerestaurant, a New Orleans-style restaurant, which locals say is the city’s first Black-owned brick-and-mortar business. Three members of Krewe’s 4-person kitchen staff are people of color.

“We’ve flipped the scenario that I’m normally used to,” Mackbee said.

In addition to opening restaurants and a bakery, the partners are also realizing a dream to start a farm for students of color who are surrounded by farmland, but don’t have the opportunity to step onto it. In September, Mackbee and Lucas hope to bring the first group of local students to the one-acre farm they are building.

Tap the link in our bio to read more about their journey. Photo by @andreaellenreed.

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