One garden at a time
To serve the Delaware River Valley community through organic garden stewardship and habitat restoration. We aim to reduce environmental harms and increase biodiversity, for the good health and well-being of all sentient beings in the watershed — one garden at a time.
Land acknowledgement
As a resident of Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania, a descendant of its early inhabitants, and a garden steward leading a team of stewards in the Delaware River Valley, I respectfully acknowledge the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania as the original, current and future inhabitants and stewards of this region, also known as Lenapehoking, "land of the Lenape".
I hope that together our efforts of stewardship today will help to decolonize our understanding of indigenous people and plants. May this not just be an acknowledgement limited to a few sentences on the internet, but a step toward nurturing our shared values for that which we call home into a friendship of respect and reciprocity.
May we mend the fragmented pieces of habitat back together one garden at a time, heal the ecological and cultural harms of the past, and nurture a renewed friendship rooted in the river valley we call home.
We are committed to supporting the Lenape people and their cultural identity as much as we are committed to organic garden stewardship and habitat restoration in the Delaware River Valley, for the well-being of all in Lenapehoking.
Those of you local to Point Pleasant and the surrounding area may have a limited understanding of the Lenape as a past people, reminisced through artifacts along the banks of the Delaware and the Tohickon. Please know that the Lenape people are not extinct. They are not characters in your history text or labels in your case of arrowheads. Members of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania are here today as the descendants of those who stayed in secrecy, returned, or joined German settlers (as am I) to their homeland — sharing knowledge of their language, history, spirituality and culture with those who will listen and learn respectfully.
To learn more about the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, and to commit to supporting their ongoing presence and the preservation of their cultural identity, you can start by visiting lenape-nation.org.
Wanishi.
We are in this together
From the micro to the macro — the local river towns to the Delaware River itself, the whole of Pennsylvania or New Jersey, Milford or Easton, serviceberry or oak tree, argillite boulder to monarch caterpillars on Asclepias, shale cliffs and flowering cactus — we are in this together. Our strictly organic approach is rooted in compassion for all life forms, and in understanding how important and beautiful this giant network of relationships we call life is.
There are particular ways we strive to support the community of life:
- A sliding-scale rate, for garden accessibility
- Volunteering time and resources for local schools and non-profits
- Fundraising plant sales for local charities
- Membership and monetary donations to organizations that specifically support sustainability, or that serve and protect wildlife and the Delaware River
To find out more how you can support the local watershed beyond your organic gardens:
If you or your organization are in need of support, please reach out to us today.
