First Mother Farms

Rubie Simonsen

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Rooted in care. Guided by ancestors.

First Mother Farms is a land-based care project rooted in Indigenous and diasporic knowledge systems, birth justice, ecological stewardship, and community healing.

We create gatherings, learning experiences, partnerships, and places to practice another way of being together. Sometimes this looks like workshops, gardens, plant walks, shared meals, birth and postpartum care, research, or working alongside organizations seeking more grounded and relational ways of serving their communities.

Some of the work is easier to describe than others.

It is work that asks different questions. What happens when we stop separating birth from ecology, food from culture, or healing from place? What becomes possible when care is understood not as something we deliver, but as something we practice together?

At the heart of First Mother Farms is a simple belief: another way of living is possible, and we learn it by remembering how to care for one another and the living world.