SHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE | Cultivating a Perennial Home

In the US, it’s hard to think of the connection between Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and land without thinking about violence. The same is true for Queer and disabled communities. Today, the relationship with nature that should be the sacred basis for life often feels unsafe for many communities. And at a time of ecological/climate collapse, the question of what is secure is in constant flux. Shelterwood Collective was birthed out of the desire to heal communities through restoring right relations with land. Their 900-acre community forest in Cazadero, California, offers a homecoming for Black/Brown/Indigenous/Queer/Disabled people. Through cultural organizing, forest management, and the creation of accessible infrastructure, they are honoring their relationships with each other, with non-human kin, and with the Indigenous communities who have ancestral connections to land. To learn more about Shelterwood Collective visit www.shelterwoodcollective.org View more stories from Liberation Agriculture at www.liberationagriculture.com ---------- Liberation Agriculture is a film series by Regenerosity and A Growing Culture that invites us to reimagine what true regeneration looks like. From Louisiana to Michigan to South Dakota, from Indigenous tribes, to urban Black farmers, to Queer land protectors, we tell the stories of communities that are healing, transforming, and regrowing the relationships needed to cultivate life once again. www.regenerosity.world www.agrowingculture.org