Across Maryland—especially in Prince George’s County—a powerful movement has been building: a movement insisting that food should heal, not harm.
Doctors, hospitals, urban farms, public health leaders, and community champions like District 6 Councilwoman Wala Blegay have been pushing hard to make fresh, clean, unpoisoned food central to community health.
This is the heart of the Food as Medicine movement—a movement Asawana Farms has proudly helped in.
At Asawana Farms, we’ve seen firsthand how access to real, nutrient-dense food changes lives.
We’ve watched high school and college students learn to grow organic food with their own hands. We’ve watched families take home grow bags filled with kale, bitter leaf, bitter melon, okra, and African basil—plants proven to support wellness for people battling diabetes, high blood pressure, anemia, and other chronic diseases.
We’ve partnered with health providers and UMD Capital Region Health to help patients grow the foods that nourish them.
We’ve stood with Councilwoman Wala Blegay as she champions policies that protect our residents’ right to healthy food.
And then—right in the middle of this progress—the EPA approves two NEW PFAS “forever chemicals” to be sprayed on romaine lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes.
Let’s be honest:
This isn’t “regulation.”
This isn’t “science-based policy.”
This is the chemical industry hijacking our food supply—again.
PFAS chemicals don’t break down. They don’t disappear. They build up in soil, water, plants, and bodies. They are linked to cancers, immune dysfunction, reproductive harm, and chronic illness—the very conditions our community is fighting so hard to prevent.
By approving these new PFAS chemicals for crops eaten daily by millions, the EPA didn’t just make a bad call—they sabotaged the very public health efforts that people on the ground are working tirelessly to advance.
How are doctors supposed to prescribe “food as medicine” when the federal government allows toxic chemicals to contaminate the very foods meant to heal us?
How are farmers supposed to grow sustainably when their safe, organic practices are undermined by regulatory decisions designed to benefit chemical corporations?
How do communities win when industry influences policy more than the people who actually feed and heal the nation?
What the EPA has done is not neutral.
It is harmful.
It is dangerous.
And it is a direct threat to community health.
The people fighting for our health—from hospitals to farmers to local leaders like Councilwoman Blegay—deserve better.
Communities deserve better.
Our children deserve better.
This is the moment to raise our voices.
To demand accountability.
To demand science that protects—not profits that poison.
Because if our food isn’t safe, our future isn’t either.
And we refuse to sit quietly while chemical corporations dictate what goes into our soil, our plants, and our bodies.
Food should heal us—not harm us. And we will continue fighting until that truth becomes the law of the land.