Our vision
We envision a world that is healing and abundant. Through the lens of ancestral wisdom, both through our reclamation of our own cultural and Indigenous lifeways and also through deep remembrance and relationship with the Earth and all our relatives, we want to build a community that is committed to restoration in every space we occupy.
Our Practice
Our mission is to co-create healing spaces for marginalized people, especially young people and people of color, that is rooted in collective intimacy with the land and all our relatives. We want to deepen relationships with people and plants, both native and introduced, whose histories have also been threaded by both exploitation & resilience.
Through our own Indigenous practices, passed down through our lineages as a recipe for healing, we want to heal the land alongside our people, creating spaces for reimagining, remembering, and joy. We also want to move with curiosity and openness as we work to unearth layered histories through a deep understanding of land-based relationships & ethnoecology and share these truths with our community.
We are working to:
Provide nourishing, culturally-affirming food to our community
As people of color, our foods have been continuously villainized, co-opted, and restricted. We know that food is medicine, and that our community cannot heal without access to the medicine and the teachings of how to use it. Through intentional cultivation of Indigenous and heritage crops, we want to help our community diversify their diets with nutrient-rich, ecologically abundant, and culturally rooted foods.
Create healing spaces for marginalized people
Healing is at the core of all our work. We see our present and future generations in critical need of restorative healing to move through the disproportionate trauma we experience. We want all people to feel welcome on the farm and to know they will be respected and affirmed in showing up as they are. This space is created by us and for us.
Rematriate the lands we live and work on
We are an Indigenous-owned and BIPOC-owned business that seeks to return our ecosystems to balance by placing land back in the hands of stewards who pursue right relationship with all the Earth. This farm is our own reclamation and assertion of our right to take up space. Honoring the sentience of the land and all that is living is central to our work.
Educate our community in ways that build lasting resilience
We offer workshops that guide restorative practice and center storytelling as a means of sharing knowledge. We are excited to teach and learn alongside our community. All of our educational offerings are structured in a non-linear, multigenerational format.
Why a garden?
We regard our communities as nature and hold the metaphor of the garden to mirror our own resilience and interconnectedness. We are farmers, artists, stewards, and dreamers. By embodying an ecosystem of biodiverse identities, we hope to reflect a microcosm of what a healing and restorative society can look like. Our deeply rooted histories guide our intentional work. We also see the land as both a teacher and classroom, and a beautiful place to center our work.
Honoring histories
We pull inspiration from the archetype of the "victory garden", a space for healing, identity, and sovereignty during a time of war and trauma. During WW1 & WW2, victory gardens allowed people to embrace collective care while instilling a sense of shared pride and joy in their communities. Our communities are still at war, a continued war against oppressive systems rooted in white supremacy. And we need to fight back in the ways we understand.
We are reimagining what our "victory garden" of today would look like: a fruitful place that supports our diverse community through food, nourishment, connection, education, and safety.
On Abolition
We understand the work of abolition and decolonizing to be deeply rooted in unearthing our layered histories and returning to a connected and interdependent ecosystem of life. Although we hold space for softness, we also want to be strong in this work. All that we do is aligned with dismantling white supremacy, settler-colonialism, transphobia, ableism, homophobia, and injustice within ourselves and within our communities.
Our community values include:
Love
Interdependence
Growth
Liberation
Respect
Creativity