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History- more accurately called Herstory

In the 1910’s our great great great grandfather purchased his own 40+ acres of land in Mississippi for $0.25/ acre. In 1919, a portion of the land was purchased by great great grandmother “Mama Scrap” in 1919, and then passed down to our grandmother in 1978. 

In 2019, we launched phase 1 of the campaign, Sacred Resistance- Reclaim (Save the Land) exactly 100 years after the land passed to Mama Scrap, our family re-purchased and reclaimed our 5+ acre plot with the support of our community. 

As a child, Mama Rev. Regina would spend every summer in Mississippi, and Ree Belle would visit Mississippi when she became a child and dream of that land becoming a space where we could live, grow, and sustain. That dream is finally coming true. 

Vision

Our vision is to return to rituals and ancestral knowledge, reclaim a relationship with land in the South that was severed through servitude, rematriate the land in a way that respects Mother Earth, and provide a haven for retreat that promotes healing for black folx. 

Support Needed

We are currently in Phase 2 of this project, Sacred Resistance: Return (Stimulate the Land) which will be focused on the construction of a co-housing design retreat space, clearing the land for planting, and permaculture design for a future food forest.

Join us in returning to this land and beginning the steps of creating a retreat and refuge for black and indigenous folx, people of color, queer folx, and others who are oppressed and seeking healing liberation!