Hawk Mountain Earth Center

We are manifesting the world we all deserve through the Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust- Land Acquisition Campaign. The Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to tending to Mother Earth and all our relations towards the healing and regeneration of our spirits and way of life.

This campaign is raising $555,555 to acquire a retired dairy farm in Middletown, NY which sits on Lenape territory; and restore the land to its original sacred geometry. Members who hold ground leases will operate independently to create a spiritual sanctuary that includes healing activities, mutual aid gardens, a native/medicinal plant nursery, and worker residencies.

Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust will provide a protected space for Indigenous practices. We envision families learning to grow food and medicine together, earth/land workers being paid fairly for their labor, and young adults developing resilience leadership skills they implement in their own neighborhoods. IMCLT will provide holistic support through the rematriation and ceremonial components of the nursery and mutual aid gardens.

With this land, we will make space for the autonomous recuperation and regeneration of our social, cultural and spiritual ways of life. We aim to guarantee our own protection and safety by self-determining our spiritual practices and customs in spite of previous criminalization within local jurisdictions. We will provide a protected space for the Global Majority to gather and share cultural celebrations autonomously.

We will do this while collaborating on Indigenous land management projects that include the full spectrum of the growing cycle – from seed saving to market distribution of produce, native plants and herbal medicines. We will offer a continuum of care for the land, the people engaged in caring for it, and those receiving the fruits of our labor. Land acquisition is central to our work because it provides a stable place to live and implement Indigenous land management in all seasons.

This is Community Supported Land Sovereignty

The health of our communities and of our planet are inseparable. By working to improve our personal and communal health we help create a healthier planet for future generations. Hawk Mountain Earth Center is working to promote regenerative and wellness practices in our daily lives and in connection with our food systems, our soil and the myriad of plants and tree species we depend on for a thriving ecosystem. We believe that the time to focus on local food and medicinal sovereignty is now and that BIPOC communities can and must reconnect to our ancestral knowledge to overcome the huge gaps and health deficiencies created and perpetuated by institutionalized forms of colonization and racism. Making our communities aware of our inter connectivity and building mutual aid networks while sharing knowledge and resources are important steps towards achieving the food and medicinal sovereignty that can fortify our resiliency into the coming climatic changes set to take place.

Volunteer Intake Form

Hawk Mountain Earth Center strives to suppport residents and communities gain access to public or private space for growing organic food. We believe that our communities deserve increased access to locally grown organic food and growing their own food provides additional health benefits. HMEC will support communities through education and practical assistance in developing opportunities for abundant community gardens. As more and more people begin to grow food locally they increase food access for the communities around them. At Hawk Mountain we are committed to growing food that will directly benefit local communities and support others in doing the same.  To volunteer on our community work days and help build our first urban farm please fill out this intake form.

At Hawk Mountain Earth Center we recognize that BIPOC communities have disproportionately had to endure the traumatic experiences perpetuated by economic systems that exploit humans and the earth in ever more demanding and extractavist forms. Recent climate related catastrophes and wide spread disease and health related preventable deaths have added a renewed intensity to the ongoing stress suffered in the most vulnerable sectors of our communities.   We understand that the solutions to the difficulties we face must come from the communities themselves. Top down policy making and governmental mandates fall short in their attempt to alleviate our most dire problems because decision making bodies, so called “leaders” and highly resourced sectors are ill informed of our cultures and diverse needs and show little interest in understanding or including our vantage point, contributions, experience and knowledge base.