Vision
To co-create a diverse, accessible community that nurtures the health of people and nature through economic justice, urban agriculture/local food access, and environmental sustainability.
Mission
To create generational wealth and well being for people who have been marginalized by institutional racism and systems of white supremacy. To build affordable housing with carbon net-zero, earth-friendly structures that preserve natural habitat and foster environmental and community health. To establish neighborhood food sovereignty with urban agriculture, providing nutrition and economic prosperity to underserved populations. To make common spaces and resources accessible to all as a means of building a strong, supportive community.
Goals
Collaboratively purchase, develop, and preserve a 65-acre parcel of land within the City limits of Madison, Wisconsin.
Increase homeownership for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and support their acquisition of generational wealth.
Provide affordable, sustainable housing for families and individuals of diverse abilities, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Provide food and economic opportunity by planting, cultivating and harvesting agricultural crops and managing pastured livestock for local consumption, sale at markets, and donation to food banks.
Provide green space commons, accessible to the surrounding community for recreation, spiritual growth, and education.
Restore, protect, and conserve wetlands, perennial pasture, and other natural components of the parcel, for their ecosystem services and for their own right.
Serve as a model for building a coalition of stakeholders with unique needs, skills, and resources who come together to fulfill their own goals, as well as the goals of the City as a whole, to benefit the broader community.