The Food Forest at Leslie Park
our guerilla gardening project
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a 1/5 acre pollinator, herbal, flower, and native plant garden.
a community hub for free plant medicine, earth-centered ritual, and liberatory practices.
a holy ground for returning to the home of our bodies and our shared planet, again and again. for living in the truth of love, ancestry, and indigenous stewardship practice.
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a multiracial team of queers and trans people, elders, children with a shared reverence for the earth and her/their intelligence.
we do not “plant the land.”
we listen deeply for instructions.
we yield to the whispered wishes of Tree, Spider, Flower, Grasshopper, Water.
we throw down for our tiny but mighty patch of the liberatory world we are creating.
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this space teaches me every day. it’s here that i began to, quite literally, touch the earth. know soil. respect who colonizers call “weeds” but we remember as friends and allies and medicine.
True Earth Apprenticeship
the old, earth-honoring ways
how I’m learning to reclaim a critical piece of our heritage as humans: earth-honoring peoples and cultures. from navigating with the stars, to menstruating by the moon, all people still contain this seed of ancestral remembrance. i embrace the journey backwards and forwards to reinstate the seasonal rituals and rhythms of my ancestors.
Decolonization and Spirituality
ancestral reclamation & reconciliation
how i’m studying and navigating my mixed racial and cultural ancestry rooted in Medellín, Colombia.
how i gingerly heal the generational traumas born from the colonization of Abya Yala. Abya Yala is a word in Guna by the Kuna people of present-day Panama and Colombia, and it is used in indigenous spaces to refer to the Americas. Abya Yala translates to “land of fertile blood.”
how i walk with my true familial inheritance, the blessings passed on to me by the ancestors, and what my work in this lifetime is.
Citizens’ Resistance At Fermi 2 (CRAFT)
right relationship with the original land stewards
restorative environmental justice and Land Back
that’s me performing on the left!
photo credit xandr brown <3