A Relationship-Based Approach to Land

First Mother Farms operates as a methodology rather than a fixed site.

Our work is guided by the understanding that land is not an asset to be acquired, but a relative to be tended. Indigenous land-based practices have historically been mobile, seasonal, and relational, rooted in permission, responsibility, and return rather than ownership.

We carry this lineage forward by working across partner lands and community spaces, allowing our programs to remain ethical, accessible, and responsive to place.

Our Methodology Is Grounded In:

• Relational stewardship over extraction

• Birth justice as an ecological practice

• Seasonality and return rather than permanence

• Applied research translated into community care

Birth Justice as Land Work

We understand the body as a landscape and birth as an ecological event. Reproductive justice and land justice are inseparable; both concern autonomy, care, access, and intergenerational continuity.

Our programs reflect this understanding by holding space for healing, transition, and embodied knowledge on and with land.

Why We Don’t Own Land (Yet)

We intentionally practice relationship-based land stewardship rather than ownership. This allows us to:

• Reduce barriers to land-based education

• Avoid extractive or speculative land practices

• Invest resources directly into people and programming

• Remain accountable to land and community relationships

Land ownership may become appropriate in the future, but only when it aligns with our values of reciprocity, long-term care, and collective benefit.