2022 & Dreams

 
 

Repair, Rest, Remembering.

CSA DISTRIBUTIOn

FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE

  • Raise $50,000 + for the CSA season.

  • Focus on sourcing from Black, Indigenous and People of Culture and small farmers in the twin cities foodshed

  • Offer more on farm educational workshops to members of the program community.

  • Virtual recipes and storytelling

  • Distribute shares to 100 families a week for the farming season (Late spring - fall 2022)

 

 

Land access

Practicing Community

  • This season we are dreaming and building a relationship with 40 Acres of land adjacent to farmers and seed savers with shared values

  • Our dreams include planting a Tree Forest to heal the deforestation from the previous “owner”

  • Growing sacred foods, medicines and flowers WILDLY, and beginning remediation with the soil.

  • Experimenting with building structures and collective living that is sustainable & in love.

 

SEED & Plant dispersals

Supporting growing from home

  • we will grow plant starts at Whetstone Farm greenhouse, our homes and TBD locations to supply TWO disbursements of FREE plant starts

  • Seed Library Share

  • Educational storytelling & How to’s

 

Food PRESERVATION & MEDICINE

Fermentation & Artisanal Ritual Study

  • Pickling

  • Salves & Medicine making

  • Pop up market

  • Foraging and Saving

  • Dehydration

  • Food Processesing

 

hands on learning

Our Animal, Pollinator Friends, Water protection

  • Chickens & Eggs

  • Trauma informed slaughter sessions

  • The magic of goats, lamb and cows

  • Bees & Honey

  • Pollinator garden study begins

  • Line 3 - How to show up to protect what is SACRED and LIFE

 

 

Growing in city environments

Uprising tools

Questions to ruminate on:

  • How do we grow without access to city green space and water?

  • What foods do communities want to grow?

  • How to get the youth inspired about growing?

  • When systems are burning, how do we show up for each other?

  • How can mutual aid be more sustainable?

  • How do we remember old ways post colonization?

  • Local Hoop House building and sharing?