For nearly 15 years, Woven Roots Farm has provided CSA shares for our vulnerable community members who otherwise might not have access to fresh, local vegetables. We are proud to share that since 2019 our commitment to food justice has grown into an initiative called Seeding Solidarity with our sibling farm, Finca Luna Búho.

Seeding Solidarity is a food sovereignty program that creates a space to cultivate shared values, build community, uplift food literacy, and reconnect participants' awareness towards sustainability and Indigenous land stewardship. Working in cooperation with BIPOC, immigrants, and other marginalized families, we co-create a reciprocal relationship with the land. Sharing knowledge of the interconnectedness of soil, plants, pollinators, and mycelium moves us to understand how these relationships can be models for our community organizing and change work. Through pathways of empowerment and self-determination, we offer space for gatherings, classes, justice organizing, healing, farming, and mutual/intimate land and nature connection.

In Berkshire County—from Great Barrington to North Adams, we offer year-round produce access to marginalized community members. We celebrate our increase to 200 shares since our humble beginnings of 15 shares in 2019—over 830 community members!

Centering Language Justice

A significant foundational piece of our collaborative work is the inclusion of language justice. We work with language as an honoring of transformation and a way to nourish our relationships. We welcome language as a means to shift, remember, and adapt —allowing for the expansiveness of what we hold in our hearts. Together, we witness how language inclusivity plants seeds of change.

All of our communications are written in Spanish first and then translated into English. This centers the majority of our collective and community members whose first language is Spanish. It is a way to expand participation with our collective members. Beyond feeling like a tangible move to increasing accessibility for our work, this prioritization has also felt like an energetic shift to dismantle English being the predominant language. To change this allows us to be present in multiple perspectives and experiences.

Equitable Sliding Scale

One way we have partially funded Seeding Solidarity is through the further expansion of our CSA Equitable Sliding Scale model. This is a pay-based model that offers a price range that reflects an individual’s ability to pay for items/services with accountability to our interconnectedness. The funds received from the “More Than Market Value” share purchase contribute directly to our Seeding Solidarity Share Fund. We believe that implementing these systems of care gives a way for wealth redistribution to tangibly offer solidarity.