Spring 2024 Newsletter
Hello Woven Roots Community!
As we watch the awakening of the earth around us, we are thinking about how spring seems to call us into urgency. Yet, we are calling in an easeful transition into these longer days and a joyous growth for the upcoming season. In the same breath, we recognize that this vision of ease and joy is a privilege. Collectively, here at Woven Roots Farm, we hold space for the unconscionable and inhumane acts occurring daily.
We acknowledge that our work as farmers and our responsibility as land stewards occur on stolen land and are part of a system built on forced labor and colonization. These same systems are the cause of immense suffering globally - they are part of the same system that is responsible for the genocides, occupations, and daily acts of violence that we are seeing magnified at this time. The violence both around us and overseas weighs on us in immeasurable ways - we are deeply interconnected.
As we continue to demand a ceasefire; as we continue to fight for trans lives and reproductive rights; as we continue to fight for Indigenous sovereignty and immigrant rights; we as an intersectional community know that both our suffering and our liberation are woven together. We recognize our responsibility to honor our grief, compost anger into action, break generational harm and trauma, and care for each other in community.
As a BIPOC-led justice-based business, we move with an emergent understanding of lived experiences and uplift those coming from the most marginalized perspective. Our commitment to food justice and providing food for all people including those most impacted by colonization, racism, and other systemic barriers.
We are committed to and stand for the collective liberation in all parts of this precious earth we call home. None of us are free until all of us are free.
This week, our farm team gathered to set intentions for the season, uplift ways we can support one another, and learn ways to honor our values, grief, resilience, and care through tending to the earth together.
As the days grow longer and seedlings are sprouting up from the land, their tiny tendrils burst into being to greet the warmer days that will soon be upon us. This reminder of possibility, generosity, and resilience nourishes us both individually and collectively. We look forward to being in relationship with you and sharing more with you in the coming months.
With love and gratitude,
The Woven Roots Farm Team