Our Vision for The Garden Project
The Garden Project is a place where we come together in reverent cultivation of growth.
Since humans first placed seeds in soil, we have been growing food in community. In growing together, we participate in a practice that is both as old as our agricultural origins, and a vision for the great turning of our collective future; of sovereign food systems and sustainable production of food and medicine, outside of the imminent collapse of capitalism.
We strive to cultivate reciprocal systems of nourishment in right relationship to the Land and to the Land’s rightful inhabitants, the Abenaki People. We move this intention into practice through relationship building, listening in for tangible ways of returning energy and making informed offerings; as well as by honoring the Land and the Land’s peoples through rightful naming - of place, of peoples, and of all that needs to heal in reparation.
We hold the Land, the cycles, and our practices together as sacred,
acknowledging Spirit through intentional altar building and tending, ceremony, and prayer.
We strive to nurture our relationships with our Ancestors, and with one another, through earth-and-body supported re-membering of the prayers and practices of our peoples. The garden is a place to grow our understanding; through the foods we grow, our relationships to the directions, the seasons, the cycles of the moon, ways of touching soil, making offerings, making amends, grieving, celebrating, and learning to navigate the balance of reciprocal sharing and personal/Ancestral sovereignty.
As bodies in collaborative motion, we practice deep listening:
To the plants: in direct communication with their intelligence,
honoring their yes-es and no-s through consensual harvest and offerings.
To the Land: hearing the advocacy of the Land as the memory-keeper of all
that has happened and the necessary re-learning of rightful balance.
To the ancestral knowing we touch the earth with: remembering our roots of
ancestral agricultural and spiritual practices, and the ceremonies of our lineages.
To our embodied awareness: listening in to ourselves in relationship to movement,
and to one another, in remembered cycles of connection, creation, and harvest.
To the places of rupture and repair, and our part in the necessary transformative healing
of our collective bodies and planet
In this listening, we hold the awareness that everything is alive and interconnected.
From the microbiome of the soil interacting with our gut flora to repair our immune systems, to our nervous systems engaged in
co-regulation, to the cycles of life and death we all touch and are also within, the Garden is a place where we are in intimate connection with the alive, spirited and intelligent world.
We come here to connect, to remember and repair, to learn and share skills, to be in conscious contact with Spirit, and to grow together more than we can alone.
From the individual to the collective, the Garden is a place where we ground to plant and tend the seeds of our resilience.
Since humans first placed seeds in soil, we have been growing food in community. In growing together, we participate in a practice that is both as old as our agricultural origins, and a vision for the great turning of our collective future; of sovereign food systems and sustainable production of food and medicine, outside of the imminent collapse of capitalism.
We strive to cultivate reciprocal systems of nourishment in right relationship to the Land and to the Land’s rightful inhabitants, the Abenaki People. We move this intention into practice through relationship building, listening in for tangible ways of returning energy and making informed offerings; as well as by honoring the Land and the Land’s peoples through rightful naming - of place, of peoples, and of all that needs to heal in reparation.
We hold the Land, the cycles, and our practices together as sacred,
acknowledging Spirit through intentional altar building and tending, ceremony, and prayer.
We strive to nurture our relationships with our Ancestors, and with one another, through earth-and-body supported re-membering of the prayers and practices of our peoples. The garden is a place to grow our understanding; through the foods we grow, our relationships to the directions, the seasons, the cycles of the moon, ways of touching soil, making offerings, making amends, grieving, celebrating, and learning to navigate the balance of reciprocal sharing and personal/Ancestral sovereignty.
As bodies in collaborative motion, we practice deep listening:
To the plants: in direct communication with their intelligence,
honoring their yes-es and no-s through consensual harvest and offerings.
To the Land: hearing the advocacy of the Land as the memory-keeper of all
that has happened and the necessary re-learning of rightful balance.
To the ancestral knowing we touch the earth with: remembering our roots of
ancestral agricultural and spiritual practices, and the ceremonies of our lineages.
To our embodied awareness: listening in to ourselves in relationship to movement,
and to one another, in remembered cycles of connection, creation, and harvest.
To the places of rupture and repair, and our part in the necessary transformative healing
of our collective bodies and planet
In this listening, we hold the awareness that everything is alive and interconnected.
From the microbiome of the soil interacting with our gut flora to repair our immune systems, to our nervous systems engaged in
co-regulation, to the cycles of life and death we all touch and are also within, the Garden is a place where we are in intimate connection with the alive, spirited and intelligent world.
We come here to connect, to remember and repair, to learn and share skills, to be in conscious contact with Spirit, and to grow together more than we can alone.
From the individual to the collective, the Garden is a place where we ground to plant and tend the seeds of our resilience.
Join us in the garden
If you would like to become involved with The Garden Project, please fill out the Membership Application below that best fits how you'd like to connect:
Help us to uphold our Vision
We would be so grateful to receive your support in helping us to uphold our Vision, and our mission of offering equitable food, connection and skill building to people interested in growing resilience and supporting food justice through a community garden project centered in practicing relationship to all life.
We are currently receiving in-kind and financial donations to support our work in the 2021 growing season, which is currently underway. Find out how you can make a contribution to support us by vising our Garden Support page.
We are currently receiving in-kind and financial donations to support our work in the 2021 growing season, which is currently underway. Find out how you can make a contribution to support us by vising our Garden Support page.