Our Community
(The Land)

 

On 48 acres of land in North Durham, NC we are growing a center for community resilience, collective healing, cultural arts, food justice, food sovereignty, and cooperative learning. We cultivate these spaces and practice centering relationships and culture—a requirement for transforming systems. We catalyze our members, our partners in resistance, and our broader communities: to grow food, to grow movements, to grow spirit and mind; to hold ceremony, to hold our differences, and to hold our common liberation. 

 

Land Acknowledgement

Earthseed exists on the land of Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi and Shakori Native peoples. We respectfully acknowledge the vibrant Indigenous communities that call this land home and the painful impacts of genocide, forced removal and attempted cultural erasure of the indigenous people here and beyond. As we learn to be in relationship with this land, we strive to honor all Indigenous elders past present and future who have been and continue to be vital keepers of culture and wisdom.

Land acknowledgements are about lifting the veils that have for far too long kept us disconnected from the wisdom and medicine that is at the core of indigenous cultures across the globe:

1) The acknowledgement of our Earth as ANIMATE:  not a thing that can be used, pillaged and exploited for the benefit and entertainment of us humans, but a sacred, living, sentient being that provides for us ALL that we need and so much more.

2) It’s also about the acknowledgment of the interdependence of ALL species (not just humans). Encouraging us to move beyond our human supremacist framework that is a precursor and byproduct of late stage capitalism, into a framework that acknowledges that humans are only ONE of an estimated 8.7 million species that call this planet home.

Trail Map Kiosk
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