About First Mother Farms
Founded in 2015, First Mother Farms began with a commitment to regenerative land stewardship, cultural tending, and community education. Over time, our work has grown beyond a fixed farm site into a relationship-based, multi-site practice connecting land care with maternal and community wellness.
We understand health as something shaped not only within clinics or care appointments, but also through relationships with body, food, culture, community, and land. Through doula care, perinatal movement, food sovereignty initiatives, community education, and seasonal field gatherings, First Mother Farms supports the conditions that help people feel nourished, grounded, connected, and cared for during pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period, grief, and other meaningful life transitions.
Rooted in Indigenous and diasporic traditions, our work is informed by lived experience, land-based practice, birth justice advocacy, and graduate-level study in ecology, philosophy, and cultural studies. We create programs that honor the body as part of the living world and recognize care as both personal and collective: carried through breath, food, story, ceremony, knowledge, and the places that sustain us.
Rather than centering land ownership as the only pathway to belonging or stewardship, First Mother Farms works in relationship with partner lands, communities, families, and organizations. Our approach makes space for people to participate in land-based learning, embodied wellness, cultural continuity, and reciprocal care wherever they are.
Our Values
Care over extraction
We prioritize practices that nourish people, communities, and land rather than treating them as resources to be used.
Cultural continuity
We honor the knowledge, stories, practices, and relationships that connect generations to land, food, birth, and care.
Reciprocity
We believe wellness is relational and that receiving from land and community carries a responsibility to give back with intention.
Responsibility
We approach care, education, and stewardship with accountability to the people, places, and traditions that shape this work.
Relationship over ownership
We believe meaningful connection to land is built through participation, respect, tending, and shared responsibility, not ownership alone.
First Mother Farms is fiscally sponsored by Givinga Foundation.
A Note on Our Evolution
First Mother Farms’ work has grown over time. To honor the land-based projects and offerings that shaped our practice from 2015 to 2025, we’ve created an Archive that holds our earlier work and reflections.