PLaCE

Peoples, Land, agriCultures, Ecologies [PLaCE] is growing food, habitat, and community in the upland hills of the ancestral Mohican homelands (Copake, NY) in order to rebuild human to human, human to Wild, and Wild to Wild relationships. We work with the land and its many communities in order to build these relationships and create shared prosperity and a vibrant future for all.

We host workshops, community events, and family-friendly residencies with Native and non-Native instructors to teach participants ways of being in reciprocal relationship with plants and the land as well as build community and indigenous-settler relationships. In support of this we cultivate and sell native plants that have a history of human use as food, herbs, and/or crafting materials. Each of these plants is an invitation for human connection and carries with it co-evolved relationships with native insects and the entire food web they support.

The driving question for PLaCE is, “How can we serve the Wild in the process of meeting human needs?” (not in spite of human needs).

PLaCE's team includes:
Bradley McGilvary Pitts (Clan MacGillivray settler, USA), Lead Steward
Pitāēpanuhkiw Lucy Grignon (Stockbridge-Munsee Community/USA), Traditional Knowledge Advisor
Monique Tyndall (Stockbridge-Munsee Community/USA), Native Relations Consultant
Jacqueline Horani, Legally Unconventional, General Council
Yuhyęhaká'ne' Rachel Hill (Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Tuscarora/USA), Many Rivers Law, Tribal & Property Law Council
Eric Kiviat, Hudsonia Ltd, Ecology Lead
Claudia Knab-Vispo, Farmscape Ecology, Ecology Consultant
Matthew Sheffer, Hudson Carbon, Agroecology Lead
Emma Waggoner (Cherokee Nation/USA), Polymode, Graphic Designer
Brian Johnson (Monacan Indian Nation/USA), Polymode, Partner