How Our Garden Grows

We center bioregionalism- looking at the native, common, abundant plants of our region that help support and balance local ecosystems, including people.

As a space committed to healing from legacies of colonial violence on land and the liberation of all people, we believe the garden must center the needs of the most marginalized among us in overarching white supremacist, capitalist systems. We center and celebrate our Queer, Trans, Disabled, Chronically Ill, Mentally Ill, Femme, Poor, Immigrant, Refugee, Fat and Darkskin community.

No one is free until we are all free.

We know land is not something to be owned or controlled. We build practices to attune ourselves to the specificity of this land. We know and care for the land as a very alive, highly intelligent, breathing, sensing body. We know the plants, the fungi, the soil, and the water as sentient beings that we are working with-in consensual, co-defined collaboration and towards mutual flourishing. Their needs, wants, and autonomy are as important as our own. Because of this, we believe all landwork must start with introducing yourself, stating your intentions, and asking permission–waiting to receive an answer before engaging, giving thanks throughout, and taking only what is needed. This receptivity, or intuition, is built through practice, through building greater sensitivity and a deeper relationship to the land and to plant and fungi ancestors. 

We believe in our interdependence. Reciprocity connects us in relationships of care and responsibility to each other. The mere act of giving and acting out of abundance, trustful that that which has been given will circulate back to you, keeps us in webs of reciprocity- of mutual, collaborative flourishing.