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Farming is Medicine: Agroecology/Land Stewardship Fellowship-Fall 2022

The Deep Medicine Circle engages in learning/unlearning activities ranging in perspectives from land-based, movement-based learning to academic inquiry. We are currently offering a paid fellowship to urban Indigenous young adults to learn Agroecology/Land Stewardship in our Farming is Medicine program, which has been hailed as a game-changer for food systems transformation to bring about whole systems health.

We bring together several knowledge sources to create dynamic solutions to the most pressing problems facing humanity, focusing on food systems, food as medicine and land management. The work of Farming is Medicine is to Heal the Land and Feed the People.

We are thrilled to offer a pilot paid fellowship, in partnership with Friendship House (FH), Native American Health Center (NAHC) and the SF Office of Economic Workforce Development this Fall (October 22nd through December 10th, 2022) in Agroecology and Land Stewardship to urban Indigenous young adults (ages 18-24). The trainings will take place at two sites along the urban-rural corridor: Our 1-acre Rooftop Medicine Farm in Huichin (Oakland, CA), and our rural 38-acre land back site we steward with Muchia Te' Indigenous Land Trust-- Te Kwe A'naa Warep (Honor Mother Earth) farm in Ramaytush Territory (San Gregorio, RA).

Join DMC instructors Benjamin Fahrer (Director of Agroecology/Land Stewardships), Sage LaPena (Certified Clinical Herbalist and Director of Traditional Ecological Knowledge/Indigenous Planet Medicine), Dr Rupa Marya (Professor of Medicine and Executive Director) and special guest instructors for teachings in the cultivation of food and medicine, habitat restoration, the connections between soil health and human health, the propagation of native plants, establishing beneficial perennial pollinator habitat, TEK practices, and implementation of the ecological site development of the farm and how that corresponds and translates to the rooftop farm and urban landscape. 

The future of climate and human health rests in the hands of those who can bridge multiple ways of knowing to affect the most impactful change in land/ecosystems stewardship. We look forward to empowering you with the tools to take a strong step along that journey. 

This program is partially funded through a grant from the San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development (OEWD) and is geared towards young Indigenous adults interested in careers in land stewardship, food, ecological farming, healthcare, public health

For more information about this program and to start the application process, please sign up here!