Mission
Hawk Mountain Earth Center is dedicated to recuperating ancestral social, cultural, and spiritual ways of life by supporting people of all ages to cultivate healthy relationships with nature, community, and self.
We do so by fostering awareness, understanding and appreciation for:
We operate as a cooperative, horizontal and consensus-based organization and non-profit corporation registered in New Jersey. We founded and maintain an urban medicinal food and herb farm in Mahwah NJ, where we facilitate educational and spiritual land regeneration projects on Sweetwater Prayer Camp (ceremonial grounds of the Ramapough Lenape Nation). We also hold seasonal wellness and spiritual gatherings at Rabbit Hole Farm, Newark, NJ.
We have co-launched a capital campaign in collaboration with Indigenous Mothers Community Land Trust to fund the purchase of land and construction of a Spiritual Sanctuary and Healing Center, mutual aid regenerative farm and a native tree nursery. This land acquisition and healing center construction will provide a permanent home for our organizational, educational and healing events and programming. It will also allow us to provide a ceremonial grounds and sanctuary for native and indigenous gatherings, meetings or temporary lodging as needed for visiting indigenous elders, leaders and groups. We continue to support our wider communities as we all transition to ways of life in accordance with the earth’s cycles, systems and forms of reciprocity.
Food and Medicinal Sovereignty for free and sovereign communities
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 communities of the global south 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 earth changes set to take place.
Connecting the dots of our communal challenges
At Hawk Mountain Earth Center we recognize that communities of the global majority have disproportionately had to endure the traumatic experiences perpetuated by economic systems that exploit humans and the earth in ever more demanding and extractivist forms. Recent man-made and climate related catastrophes, illness, and scarcity as well as health related preventable deaths have added a renewed intensity to the ongoing stress suffered in the most vulnerable sectors of our society. We understand that the solutions to the difficulties we face must come from ourselves.
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.
We know we depend on ourselves for fostering and implementing the solutions we need. We accept financial support but not if it is dependent on the methods of our implementation or internal policies. We are sovereign and support native and indigenous sovereignty everywhere on this earth..
Mailing Address
16 Barnard Place, Elizabeth, NJ 07208304
Farm Location
95 Halifax Rd, Mahwah, NJ 07430
Phone Number
908-577-4550