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The Peninsula Open Space Trust and the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone have announced a collaborative farming project on 38 acres of San Gregorio farmland originally conserved by POST in February 2020.
POST and the Native group will partner with the Deep Medicine Circle, Luna Vez Farm and Top Leaf Farms to farm the land, which has been named Ma Da Dil, or âMotherâs Heartâ in Punjabi.
POST is a private, nonprofit land trust that works with private landowners and public agencies to protect lands through ecological and agricultural conservation. This is the first time it will be partnering with the Ramaytush Ohlone, the indigenous people of the San Francisco Peninsula.
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Dr. Rupa Marya has spent two decades studying how social structures predispose marginalized groups to illness. This year, Marya aims to foster healing in vulnerable communities with a new farm, Ma Da Dil; a new nonprofit, Deep Medicine Circle; and a new book,
A women of color-led organization made up of farmers, healers, activists, and artists, Deep Medicine Circle recently launched its Farming Is Medicine program on a 1-acre rooftop farm in Oakland as well as on a 38-acre Indigenous-run farm on the California coast south of San Francisco. The farmers at both locations will take an agroecological approach to growing organic food that will be distributed for free to institutions such as the American Indian Cultural District and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation which serve the public to address food insecurity and hunger, socioeconomic conditions the organization links to colonization. Deep Medicine Circle will invest in farmers of color to accomplish clim