Rachael Stewart

Meet Our Founder

Rachael Stewart is the founder of People 1st Global as well as Stewart Pastures and has successfully navigated USDA programs and land ownership to others in the community. Rachael has helped minority farmers to successfully purchase over 1500 acres in Cochise County. While creating change for the community she understood that there needs to be an organization the helps support small and minority farmers so she created Southwest Black Ranchers now known as People 1st Global Food and Land Reclamation. 

RanchFest is an accumulation which began in 2020 and an important leap to furthering the programs with the non profit, helping small and minority farmers to understand the in's and outs of land ownership and USDA programs. This year the non profit is also expanding to include additional events and programs. The new programs are for the support of farming and health in the community. 

About Us

We are here to help people to understand the importance of farming, agriculture, regenerative agriculture, and organic agriculture. We do not only live this lifestyle, but we practice it. Being on 190 acres including a food production facility we started as an off grid farm on 10 acres. It is  important that we are able to not only mentor the future leaders, but help others understand to not only save them time, money and also help them to produce food which helps everyone. Food production helps the world. It is a global economy, and the farmers we work with are of the smallest margin.

 We are not tipping the scales in any manner. We believe that the work we do is not only meaningful, purpose driven and will change the course of the future. We must support the food workers, future food workers and the population by supporting more food development. The pathways created will help bring new farmers, help new children into farming and provide food for the population.