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  • Culturally responsive support for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, grief, and reproductive life transitions. Through doula care, movement, breathwork, and relational accompaniment, this offering supports physical comfort, emotional wellbeing, informed decision-making, and continuity of care alongside medical providers and community support systems.

    Focus Areas

    Continuous doula support during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period

    Perinatal yoga, breathwork, and embodied practices for comfort and regulation

    Body sovereignty, informed choice, and reproductive justice

    Culturally responsive support for grief, healing, and reproductive transitions

    Outcomes

    Clients experience grounded support that honors their bodies, values, and lived experiences throughout the perinatal journey. Care supports emotional steadiness, embodied confidence, informed participation in healthcare decisions, and connection to resources and relationships that sustain wellbeing beyond birth.

  • Community-rooted garden design and engagement that strengthens access to nourishing foods, culturally meaningful plants, and shared spaces for wellbeing. This work recognizes food access, cultural continuity, and connection to land as essential conditions for individual, family, and community health.

    Focus Areas

    Participatory garden design responsive to community health, culture, and local ecology

    Native, medicinal, edible, and culturally significant plant selection

    Regenerative growing practices that support nourishment, environmental health, and community learning

    Shared stewardship models that expand access to food production beyond land ownership

    Outcomes

    Communities cultivate growing spaces that increase connection to nourishing food, culturally significant plants, and collective care practices. These spaces support food sovereignty, ecological literacy, social connection, and community-led approaches to preventive wellness.

  • Applied research and educational programming exploring the relationships among reproductive health, food sovereignty, environmental wellbeing, cultural memory, and land. This work translates academic inquiry and community knowledge into accessible curriculum, public education, and program models that support culturally responsive approaches to wellness.

    Focus Areas

    Decolonial ecology, Indigenous cosmologies, maternal ecology, and relational understandings of health

    Public scholarship and curriculum development connecting land, food, birth, and community wellbeing

    Community-informed research and documentation of culturally rooted wellness practices

    Storytelling and writing that make environmental and reproductive health knowledge accessible

    Outcomes

    Communities and partner organizations gain educational resources that connect health with culture, land, and lived experience. Through research, curriculum, and storytelling, this work strengthens public understanding of holistic wellness while supporting the preservation, renewal, and transmission of land-based knowledge.

  • Seasonal land-based workshops and community wellness gatherings hosted in relationship with partner lands. Centering Indigenous ecological knowledge, embodied practice, and reciprocal care, these gatherings offer restorative spaces for people to connect with land, community, and the practices that sustain health outside of clinical settings.

    Focus Areas

    Seasonal observation, land tending, and place-based ecological learning

    Embodied wellness practices, including breath, gentle movement, and sensory connection with the natural world

    Land ethics grounded in consent, reciprocity, and responsibility

    Accessible opportunities for families, caregivers, and community members to build relationship with land beyond ownership

    Outcomes

    Participants experience meaningful connection, restoration, and practical learning through shared time on the land. These gatherings support emotional wellbeing, reduce isolation, deepen ecological literacy, and cultivate the reciprocal relationships that help communities care for themselves and the places that sustain them.

1029 H Street Suite #209
Sacramento, CA 95605
9168003606 rubie@firstmotherfarms.com
 

First Mother Farms is fiscally sponsored by Givinga Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 47-4172718). Donations are tax-deductible as permitted by law.