Mission

To support the movement advocating for equity, justice, and wellbeing for farm workers by:

  • Donating a portion of craft sales to partner organizations
  • Raising awareness of farm labor justice issues
  • Advocating for policies and programs that serve farm workers

Vision

Farm labor jobs in the United States will:

  • Be safer and healthier
  • Offer livable wages and benefits
  • Support workers in advocating for their rights without fear of retaliation
  • Promote holistic wellbeing for workers, their families, and their communities

Values

These are the ideals I strive for, even though I am not even close to perfect in following them. Instead, I aim to do a little better every day. Check out my blog for stories of my many missteps and realignments in working toward these ideals.

Kindness

Respecting the humanity of all people. Sometimes this looks like greeting others with a smile and an affirming word. At other times this looks like engaging in transformative conflict and raising my voice to fight for universal human rights.

Intentionality

Consistently reflecting on how I can act more ethically. This includes scrutinizing my own supply chain to continuously improve my sourcing practices and communicate about the materials that go into my products.

Equity

Recognizing my own privileges and using them to build a world where every person has equal opportunity to lead safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives.

Transparency

Clarifying the flow of money in the business, especially in fulfilling my donation promises, pricing, and sourcing my materials.

Humility

Actively listening, learning from, and amplifying the voices of farm workers, their families, and members of their communities.

A headshot photo of Miranda Martin outdoors wearing microcrochet pumpkin earrings
About the owner and artist

Hi there! I’m Miranda (she/her), the owner, designer, and maker of WAFFLE Studio. I bring crochet, polymer clay, and paper quilled pieces to life from my home studio in south Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This business is a passion project born of a lifelong love of making things with my hands as well as several years researching the realities of the working and living conditions on farms in the U.S. (And I still have so much to learn!) As someone with multiple mental health challenges, joyful crafting in solidarity with folks working toward farm labor equity fuels and sustains me to keep fighting for a world that values people over profit.

For those who might want to know, here are some of my intersecting social identities that inform – though by no means dictate – how I experience and show up in the world: white, middle-class, U.S. citizen, cisgender woman, neurodivergent, demiromantic asexual, trauma survivor. I share these for two reasons: 1) to be transparent about my multiple and considerable privileges; and 2) to increase the visibility of my more marginalized identities as a love letter to my fellow (especially younger) humans who are or might be a-spec, neurodivergent, and/or in a lifelong process of healing.

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