Sophia Buggs

Sophia Buggs is a 4th generation African American woman, a community activist, and a small-scale beginning farmer in Youngstown, Ohio. She is the owner of the Lady Buggs Pharm and loves to be referred to as a professional agriculturalist. She fulfills several roles in her community toward ensuring they have access to healthy and fresh local produce. While growing up, Sophia never heard stories about her family’s farming history, but she was influenced by her grandmother who kept a backyard garden. She specifically felt called to rekindle and restore her grandmother’s gardening heritage in order to provide medicinal foods for her daughter. She believes that “food is medicine.”