Muhidin Libah (he/him) is a farmer with Liberation Farms and the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine (SBCA). He was born in Southern Somalia, grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp, and came to the United States in 2004. He has a degree from the University of Southern Maine and has co-founded multiple nonprofits including the Middle Jubba Relief and Sustainability Organization and the Somali Bantu Community Association of Syracuse. He is a family man who just celebrated the birth of his tenth child.
The mission of Liberation Farms, the SBCA's community farming program, is to provide new American farmers access to, and culturally-appropriate resources for, the means of sustainable food production for themselves, their families, and their communities. There are currently over 220 farmers growing diversified vegetables and Somali flint corn at Whiting Farm in Auburn and raising goats at Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons in Wales.