EARTHseed Permaculture Center and Farm
Thank you for Supporting the first Afro-Indigenous and all black owned Retreat/Education center and permaculture farm in sonoma county
We are happy to announce that with community support EARTHseed has completed the purchase of Gabriel Farm, the 14-acre, organic, solar-powered orchard, with a 75-year history. We were able to raise over 2.7 million dollars to close escrow on March 30th, 2021.
We had our first successful season and look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful farm!
To view our Year One Report click here
Our ancestor, Octavia Butler - we love and honor you as we fulfill your healing visions!
Octavia birthed the name “Earthseed” in her Parable of the Sower Series.
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The Dream Realized
Envision a place where thousands of adults and youth annually reclaim their relationship to the Earth, their history and their future through learning about AfroIndigenous Permaculture. Black-led and operated, the EARTHseed Permaculture Center and Farm serves as a working farm and retreat/educational center to allow respite and earth centered relaxation for our beloved Black Community while also reconnecting communities to Afro-Indigenous principles and practices for living in our world today.
We moved onto our new home April 1st and during our first year will be focused on stewarding our organic orchard farm. In the next 2-5 years we plan to launch the education center. Our future goals are to be run collectively by practitioners of Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles while building on the long legacy of Earth wisdom traditions of peoples of African Descent. Our farm will enable everyone it touches to access connections between the human and non-human world.
To view our Year One Report click here
Our new home, at the Previous organic Gabriel Farm, include Features such as:
Orchards with persimmon, nine varieties of Asian pears, apples, blackberries and raspberries.
Annual “you-pick” crops including tomatoes, pumpkins, squashes, lettuces, flowers, etc.
Bee boxes and relationship with local apiary
100% solar-powered
Private well that provides all the water for crops and residents
Residential structures include: A two-bedroom, two bath home; farmworker housing w/kitchen, 2 bedrooms.
Farm structures include: barn, greenhouse, cob (earthen) house, chicken coop, tool shed, compost tea equipment, two walk-in cooler refrigerators
Public: Small retail store, parking lot, picnic tables
We have launched the Farms official website at www.earthseedfarm.org. There you can learn about our offerings and we can’t wait to see you!
For partnership opportunities contact [email protected] or call Pandora at 510-289-1508
Appreciations to our Founding Funders:
Over 150 community members, Movement Strategy Center, Bia Echo Foundation, Ceres Trust, Amy’s Kitchen, Sonoma Clean Power Authority, 11th Hour Foundation
