Mid-Winter catch up!
Published on December 28, 2022 by Rad Pereira
Hey friends and supporters,
We hope you had a beautiful and restful Solstice! We're so grateful for your contributions to our work this year, it would not be possible without all your generous support. We wanted to give you a quick glimpse into all we've been able to accomplish this year and what we're planning for next year. Hope you can join us for some onsite programming next year!
We hope you had a beautiful and restful Solstice! We're so grateful for your contributions to our work this year, it would not be possible without all your generous support. We wanted to give you a quick glimpse into all we've been able to accomplish this year and what we're planning for next year. Hope you can join us for some onsite programming next year!
- Donated over 5,000 masks to Akwesasne Mohawk community
- Distributed home made healing salves, jam and corn seedlings throughout Haudenosaunee communities
- Strengthening connections with our Haudenosaunee communities by donating 100lbs of food and medicines, as well as volunteering and visiting existing farms and land projects
- Obtained non-profit fiscal sponsorship via Open Collective Foundation and successfully launched two fundraising campaigns via social media raising over 15k
- Building community in the Hudson Valley and also among Haudenosaunee 2LGBTQIA+ throughout our traditional homelands known as NY State.
- Donated medicine to a historic gathering of Lenni Lenapexkweyok matriarchs in Lenapehoking
- Launched speakership series attended by over 100 people that featured 8 Haudenosaunee and QTBIPOC folks with land projects & land reclamation actions
- Study, network, and learn from and with a variety of QTBIPOC land projects across Turtle Island to explore models of organizing communally, examples of solidarity economies, and stories of success and struggles on land reclamation
- Hosted a 3-day retreat with 8 our friends and collaborators to build a strategy for our 2023 plans
In 2023 we are planning to:
- Lease land to grow food and save seeds to donate and distribute
- Carry out established partnership with Akwesasne Seed Hub to receive a greenhouse for seed grow outs of traditional heirloom strains of beans to add to Haudenosaunee Seed Supply
- Organize annual trip for herbalist mutual aid group we co-founded to harvest medicine in our homelands
- Native Tree Give Away via Open Collective
- Host and organize activities for culture, land & arts programming
- Host and organize community volunteer days throughout the planting and harvest season
- Create collaborative cooking programming to share indigenous cuisine
- Find our forever home
- Continue capacity building between our collaborators for future plans
nia:wén and obrigade,
Iron Path Farms team
Iron Path Farms team