The Ecotone Center for Land-based Healing + Transformative Justice

07/08/2026

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Why healing, food, and land belong togetherThe Ecotone Center for Land-Based Healing & Transformative Justice exists because we believe healing ourselves, our communities, and the land are interwoven processes. Rooted...

06/01/2026

This full moon we are going to take a break from the movement ancestor series. At least in terms of a human ancestor. Perhaps this is an invitation to contemplate seeds as ancestors. So much wisdom packed into such a small body.

We are building incredible partnerships and laying the foundation for more exciting projects but don’t have the bandwidth to curate a post this month. Stay tuned for our next movement ancestor post June 29th.

05/05/2026

Better Late than Never—>

Your belated Full Moon Movement Ancestor for May is Rachel Carson 🌕🌿

Rachel Carson teaches us about attention to what we love love. In *Silent Spring*, she stayed with what was hard to see: the slow, accumulating violence of toxins in soil, water, bodies, and food webs. She didn’t look away. She documented. She made the trouble legible.

Donna Haraway calls us to “stay with the trouble”—not to romanticize damage, and not to surrender to despair, but to grapple with the messy truth that there are no clean or pure spaces: not on the land, not in our institutions, and not in our movements. Everything is entangled with histories of extraction, compromise, and harm.

Love for the living world includes grieving it, telling the truth about what’s been done, and still choosing to organize for repair. We live amidst constant exposure to toxic chemicals and it is only privilege that allows some people to even imagine limiting their exposure.

Under this full moon, we honor Rachel Carson by practicing the difficult work: seeing what is, mourning what’s been lost, and committing ourselves to collective, imperfect, necessary transformation.

What does “staying with the trouble” look like for you right now—on the land, in your community, in your own body?

05/04/2026

Join us for — a celebration of Octavia Butler’s immense and continuing influence as we meet the challenges of our times.

Butler taught us that change is the only constant; the question is what we choose to build *together* as we meet this moment of ecological crisis, racial capitalism, and state violence. Her work keeps handing us tools: to tell the truth about power, to practice collective responsibility, and to imagine survival that doesn’t reproduce domination.

🪐Tues. May 5 | 5–8pm 🪐

Collective Mural Painting + Book Give Away

Handpies from Slice of Humboldt

(Location info in bio)

If you are in Humboldt, come paint, read, gather, and make something public-facing and grounded—an artifact of her influence on us, a practice for more just futures and a reminder that together we can imagine our way forward.

04/27/2026

Two opportunities to engage Dr Jess Whatcott. If you’re local to Humboldt, come thru.

04/12/2026

Call for Art: Parables-inspired mural design contest!

As part of our Parables Community Read + in collaboration with ith Dr. Renée Byrd’s graduate seminar ENGL 536, we’re inviting artists, students, community members, and Octavia Butler readers of all kinds to submit a design for our Parable-inspired mural project, .

Your design could become a real, large-scale mural at the Cal Poly Humboldt Critical Agriculture Studies & Agroecology (CASA) Farm in Humboldt County, CA.

How it works:

- Anyone can submit a design (you don’t need to be a professional artist)
- The winning entry will be turned into a mural at the CASA Farm
- Additional entries may become murals if we have capacity
- A local artist will translate/grid out selected design(s) for painting at full scale
- We’ll paint it collectively at our event on May 5th

If you’ve been moved by Earthseed, inspired by Octavia Butler’s imagination, or want to help create a living community archive in public space—we want to see what you make.

Submit your design + stay tuned for details on joining the May 5 collective painting day.

BecauseOfOctavia CommunityArt ArtContest

04/11/2026

Gather with us in the Healing Justice Garden for a day of planting, tea, and abolitionist care.

We’ll be planting lemon balm starts in the West of this garden, designed around the 4 cardinal directions + elements and rooted in abolition, Black feminisms, and q***r care. Join us for starting seeds to carry forward together that we might heal in the context of state and interpersonal violence. We’ll sip lemon balm tea, learn this restorative plant’s medicine, and practice the kind of grounded healing that helps us return to ourselves and each other.

Bring your hands, your tenderness, and your people.

**Link in Bio.**