Our Values
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Wholly Rooted Farm is a BIPOC and LBBTQIA2+ friendly space. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. Indigenous Lives Matter. Trans Women are Women. Trans Men are Men. Any disrespect, harassment, or hate towards anyone due to their race, gender, sexual orientation, or ability/disability will not be tolerated in our spaces. This is our family, our friends, our loved ones, our community, and they are not debatable.
Our home is a neurodiverse home with physical disabilities, and it is important to us to recognize and include accessibility where we can, and this is a work in progress. As we work to make our programs and website inclusive and accessible, please let us know if there are any areas we can improve. Please reach out to denise@whollyrooted.com. We also wear masks as we have immunecompromised people in our home and community, and so if we ever feel that it is safe enough to host any outdoor activities or events we will have requirements in place to protect our most vulnerable. Due to the threat of Climate Change, we know that we all must work to find ways to preserve our wild plants, adapt and transition as our growing zones change and temperatures rise, and find ways to build community so that we are more resilient. Sustainability in the retail space is nice and necessary in the big picture, but true regenerative processes and sustainability happens in our own spaces, homes, and communities by growing our own, ethical foraging, responsible use, and using what is local to us as much as possible, reducing the shipment of herbs and supplies around the globe. To us, the principles of permaculture go beyond food forests and soil building and are principles that can be used to create more equitable, restorative, and cooperative communities. We always have more work to do, but we are moving forward with intention and awareness of this. |
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Land and Tradition Acknowledgement
As a white person using the principles of permaculture, I acknowledge that permaculture comes from practices created by Indigenous cultures and peoples around the world for thousands of years, and was appropriated by white men in a position of power over the past few decades. I acknowledge I am privileged to own land, and that I am using processes created by Indigenous people.
Herbalism and the use of medicinal and aromatic plants has long histories and traditions in Indigenous, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern cultures, and I am so grateful to those who have come before me, tending and caring for the plants as medicine, food, and relations and sharing their knowledge with others.
Wholly Rooted is on the unceded ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk forcefully taken after the Black Hawk War in 1833. The Ho-Chunk had villages along the lakes and waterways throughout our area, and we are in an area rich in sacred effigy mounds built by the ancestors of the Ho-Chunk.
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Ho-Chunk, People of the Sacred Voice.
Herbalism and the use of medicinal and aromatic plants has long histories and traditions in Indigenous, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern cultures, and I am so grateful to those who have come before me, tending and caring for the plants as medicine, food, and relations and sharing their knowledge with others.
Wholly Rooted is on the unceded ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk forcefully taken after the Black Hawk War in 1833. The Ho-Chunk had villages along the lakes and waterways throughout our area, and we are in an area rich in sacred effigy mounds built by the ancestors of the Ho-Chunk.
Read here.
Read More Here.
Read More Here.
Ho-Chunk, People of the Sacred Voice.