We offer food, connection and skill building to people interested in growing resilience and supporting
equitable food justice through a community garden project centered in practicing relationship to all life.
equitable food justice through a community garden project centered in practicing relationship to all life.
Our Vision
The Garden Project is a place where we come together in reverent cultivation of growth. We hold equitable food justice as central to resilience, and seek to resource communities through collective sharing of food and skills. As bodies touching ground, relationship is central to all that we do. We practice deep listening - to the land, to the plants, to the ancestral knowing we move with, to our embodied awareness, and to one another in remembered cycles of connection, creation, and harvest. As we grow together we practice learning, unlearning, reckoning, and repair. We strive to nurture sovereign and reciprocal systems of nourishment in right relationship to the Land and to the Land’s rightful inhabitants, the Abenaki People. From the individual to the collective, the Garden is a place where we ground to plant and tend the seeds of our resilience.
Who We Are
The Garden Project has been becoming and changing since 2017, and like every living creature, there are years of expansion and years of contraction.
As of 2024, the Garden Project has been in a composting/iterating process.
In it's current state, the project is tended by Amanda Franz, with community opportunities for folx to connect with land, earth, plants, ancestors, and water through specific projects, like Spud Club and the Herbal Commons Project.
In past iterations, when the project was more cohesively held by many, as part of our work of growing together in community, and as an expression of our Values, we felt it important to explicitly state the positionalities we carried; both in our own bodies and in the body we form together as a project. The excerpt below is from our Full Collective Positionality Statement.
Collectively we tend a biodiverse half-acre garden where we strive to be in embodied practices of connection, learning, healing and repair. With the language of somatics at the foundation of our project, we understand healing trauma - collectively and individually - to be direct and essential work in mending the violences of racism, colonialism and capitalism. As a group of predominantly white-bodied people with settler colonial privilege, we are in embodied reckoning and active practice with ourselves and with each other around unsettling, anti-racism and decolonial work. Our practices move us towards centering relationship, ancestral connection, right relationships with all of life, and re-membering equity.
As of 2024, the Garden Project has been in a composting/iterating process.
In it's current state, the project is tended by Amanda Franz, with community opportunities for folx to connect with land, earth, plants, ancestors, and water through specific projects, like Spud Club and the Herbal Commons Project.
In past iterations, when the project was more cohesively held by many, as part of our work of growing together in community, and as an expression of our Values, we felt it important to explicitly state the positionalities we carried; both in our own bodies and in the body we form together as a project. The excerpt below is from our Full Collective Positionality Statement.
Collectively we tend a biodiverse half-acre garden where we strive to be in embodied practices of connection, learning, healing and repair. With the language of somatics at the foundation of our project, we understand healing trauma - collectively and individually - to be direct and essential work in mending the violences of racism, colonialism and capitalism. As a group of predominantly white-bodied people with settler colonial privilege, we are in embodied reckoning and active practice with ourselves and with each other around unsettling, anti-racism and decolonial work. Our practices move us towards centering relationship, ancestral connection, right relationships with all of life, and re-membering equity.
Our Values as a Project and as People in the Garden
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We center the following values, individually and collectively, in our work together:
(click to explore them!)
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Projects for the 2026 Growing Season:
SPUD CLUB!SPUD CLUB is a mutual aid collective potato growing project.
There are multiple growing sites/nodes, some of which you can join as a member, or you can start your own node. Spud Club Intentions:
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The Herbal Commons ProjectCollective tending of medicinal herbs.
Membership commitment. More info soon. |
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*Directions to the garden and further welcome communications will be provided via email after we receive your email*
*All further communications will happen through a dedicated Signal chat groups. Please send us your phone number/signal handle.
*All further communications will happen through a dedicated Signal chat groups. Please send us your phone number/signal handle.
Not interested in being a core member of SPUD CLUB or Herbal Commons, but still want to play in the garden?
Come get your hands in the soil and meet us on a Community Work Day. On these days we will practice being in connection with one another, with the plants and with the land, through movement, tending, listening and ritual. Expect to share and learn skills, nourish your body through dynamic movement and contact with supportive earth, and to build and deepen relationships with all manifestations of life. Ritual offerings and work done will be in time with the movement of the seasons and cycles we all live in connection with.
General Community Work Days of 2026:
May 23/24/30/31
June 13 or 14
July 11 or 12
October 17 or 18
Oct 31 or Nov 1
There will be more options for being in the garden together, but these are the are what we know now.
May 23/24/30/31
June 13 or 14
July 11 or 12
October 17 or 18
Oct 31 or Nov 1
There will be more options for being in the garden together, but these are the are what we know now.
Timing and Flow of Community Work Days
The general flow of each Community Work Day:
10am: Community centering practice, Opening ritual
10:20am: Working with body intelligence: Alignment practices
10:30am - 3:00pm: Moving intentions through work
3:00pm: Closing ritual
We will break for lunch in the afternoon. If you feel called, please bring food to share.
Actual timing of offerings within each work day may vary depending on the natural flow of the day.
The general flow of each Community Work Day:
10am: Community centering practice, Opening ritual
10:20am: Working with body intelligence: Alignment practices
10:30am - 3:00pm: Moving intentions through work
3:00pm: Closing ritual
We will break for lunch in the afternoon. If you feel called, please bring food to share.
Actual timing of offerings within each work day may vary depending on the natural flow of the day.
Garden Access Info:
Ground level beds with small footpaths.
Hose water available.
Outhouse available.
Small first aid kit on site.
No public transport. Not within easy walking distance from town.
Private/non-public location- participants only welcome during explicitly named times.
Ground level beds with small footpaths.
Hose water available.
Outhouse available.
Small first aid kit on site.
No public transport. Not within easy walking distance from town.
Private/non-public location- participants only welcome during explicitly named times.
Gratitudes!
Our deepest thanks to everyone who makes, and has made, our growing project possible:
Kim Tuluke Beyer & Geoff Beyer
High Mowing Seeds
To the Abenaki people, whose land we are honored to tend and learn with.
High Mowing Seeds
To the Abenaki people, whose land we are honored to tend and learn with.
And to everyone who lent their hands and hearts to this project in seasons past.
To see a retrospective of our collective work, check out each year's gratitude page:
Garden Project Love!
To see a retrospective of our collective work, check out each year's gratitude page:
Garden Project Love!
Want to help us to keep growing?
We would be so grateful to receive your support in helping us to uphold our Vision and Mission and Values.
We are currently receiving in-kind and financial donations to support our work in the 2021 growing season.
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.
Find out how you can make a contribution to support us by vising our Garden Support page.
Contact Us
We welcome you! For more information, please email Amanda at [email protected]
