Land Stewardship starts with being relational…
From there, care becomes natural…
Care for the land = care for the community = care for the individual
An exerpt on “how to care” from my book
While creating a series of relational land-based crafting and writing projects, I reconnected with a message Odawa elder Wilfred Pelletier offered me in 1993: The individual, community and land are viewed as “one.” When the health and well-being of the land suffers, so too does the health of the community and the individual. If disease appears in an individual, then it likewise afflicts the community and the land. All are entwined – suffused within one another – and inform one another.
My longterm vision is to “purchase” (the right to steward) a piece of land,
develop programs and teaching in direct relation to it,
place covenants on portions of the land (recognizing its inherent right to exist, be recognized as a living entity, and be reserved for furture generations in its natural form),
and enter into a landback/co-stewardship/ shared-usage of the land,
which includes opportunity to explore what it means to re-write/ re-right relations.
