Kinship Plot

We create stories, places, and beautiful schemes of rooted belonging. https://linktr.ee/KinshipPlot

We do that through affordable housing, cultivation initiatives, arts-based gatherings, learning opportunities, and hospitable community.

05/12/2026

Last night, we joined many others at the City Council budget hearing to support the People’s Budget Coalition and call for deeper investment in affordable housing.

We especially urged the city to support smaller, community-rooted developers who are deeply connected to the neighborhoods they serve but often struggle to compete with large, well-funded development teams.

“If the city wants more local developers, more faith-based partnerships, and more housing that truly reflects our neighborhoods, then the city must partner with us at scale. Expanding the Housing Trust Fund to $200 million is not just about building more housing units — it’s about who gets to build, who benefits, and how we shape Charlotte’s future together.”

05/09/2026

This morning we had our most successful plant sale + fundraiser yet! We also had our most successful seed starting year to date— which means we grew so many we still have plants for sale for the next few days! (See the plant list below).

THANK YOU to for your partnership, friendship and community support.

A special gratitude shout out to previous apprentices and for showing up bright and early and showing love to us and this years apprentices.

Shout out to this years apprentices , .ccora, and !

And thank you to everyone who made a purchase, said hello, gave high fives, shared a perfect cup of joe, gave words of encouragement, entertained kids, and asked great questions about plants!

Scroll to the end to see what the plants you purchased today will look like after you get them in the ground— the footage is from our gardens today with all the same plants we sold that have just had more time to spread their roots!

DM or comment if you would like to purchase plants or see our spreadsheet for a more complete list of varieties:

—Tomato’s: apricot zebra, green zebra, Dester, Amish paste, san Marzano, Kate’s wooly yellow and more… (out of cherry varieties)
—Eggplant: 3 varieties
—Herbs: 4 basil varieties, dill, sage, parsley, fennel, garlic chives, oregano, thyme
— Tomatillo + Ground cherry
— Agastaches or Hyssops (great pollinator perennials with long blooming edible flowers and leaves, great for tea): 4 varieties
—Milkweed
— Rue, Yarrow, + Amaranth
— Chamomile
— corns (bulbs)

05/08/2026

We’re thrilled to introduce our 2026 Garden Apprentices: Simone, Cora, and Aniya! 🌱 From May through August, they’ll be working and learning at Kinship Plot, and we are so excited to welcome them to the team.

Help us give them a warm welcome by dropping a greeting or word of encouragement in the comments 💚

And if you’re local, come meet them tomorrow morning at from 8:30–10:30 AM where we will have plants and herbal products available for sale. Aniya will be offering face painting for the kiddos and there will also be crafts and live music and, of course, the best coffee in Charlotte. Hope to you there!

05/07/2026

We make products, too — handcrafted in small batches from organically grown herbs cultivated right here in Charlotte. 🌿

We slowly infuse oils with healing plants like yarrow, comfrey, plantain, and nettle, then turn them into nourishing salves, face oils, chapsticks, sugar scrubs, and more. They may look simple, but each jar is packed with the goodness of herbs grown with care, harvested by hand, and crafted for everyday use.

One of my favorite rituals is adding a tub tea to my son’s bath on summer evenings after long days outside — especially when bug bites, sun, dirt, and adventure have left his skin irritated and itchy.

And while most people keep sugar scrub in the shower, I love having a jar by the kitchen sink. After washing dishes or scrubbing up from cooking, it feels like a small act of care at the end of a hardworking moment — leaving hands soft, moisturized, and restored. ✨

ALL proceeds from products that you buy at our sale this Saturday (or from our website) will go to support our incredible apprentices and the summer apprenticeship program. Everything comes from this community and goes right back into it! Thank you for your support. ❤️

05/06/2026

Months of preparation have led up to this event and it’s finally here!

THIS Saturday 8:30am-10:30am we will be at selling plants and products to fundraise for our apprenticeship program!

ALL sales go right back into the community by funding the the apprenticeship program— 3 apprentices will be co-laboring and co-learning with us all summer helping make magic in our community gardens and the food forest

Come out and have some coffee with us, say hello to our summer apprentices, and pick up some things for your garden, your friends garden, or a gift for a mother in your life! 😉

05/05/2026

At Oddkin Unite’s first gathering of the year we explored the theme of “The Space Between Us: Making Room for Tenderness and Truth.” It was in every way an evening of both. Thank you to everyone who showed up willing to risk real encounter—with openness, curiosity, and care. We shared food, crossed silence, and practiced what it means to make room for one another without losing ourselves.

Dioveris Lopez grounded the evening and guided us gently into the spaces between us. Chef Awo crafted each dish on theme for a delicious feast. And we are still in awe of the artistry of Mackenzie England, whose original dance piece brought the theme to life so viscerally.

Ranika Chaney held the evening with such presence and wisdom. And we are grateful to Michael Maxwell for capturing it through his lens, and all of our volunteers and attendees—our oddkin—for co-shaping this experience. An especially huge thanks to our sponsor and for providing the venue.

As we carry this with us, we’re wondering: what might be possible if we stayed with tenderness a little longer without abandoning truth?

The next gathering is June 27 exploring “The Questions Between Us: How Curiosity and Open Connection Can Lead to Connection.” It will be an evening with poets in conversation, Courtney Rohan and Melissa Lacross, exploring how the questions we ask—and the ones we’re willing to sit with—can open something deeper between us.

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated when tickets are released (see bio).

04/30/2026

Can you believe it? We are already harvesting herbs!

The first growth of spring is said to be the best of the best when it comes to harvesting. We have herbs for cooking, for tea, and for infusing into oil on our minds. We are clipping, triple washing, hanging to dry, and making products! We will have products like: soothing salves, face oils, sugar scrubs, chapsticks, hot teas, tub teas— for the best bath you ever took— and more along at our plant sale next Saturday.

Every summer we hire apprentices and they are asked to help raise a portion of their salary together. Next weekends sale is a fundraiser that goes directly towards supporting the apprenticeship program and the apprentices themselves! A program designed to give meaningful work to people within our community, while equipping them with skills and tools and vision they can carry into the next chapter of their lives and beyond. Thank you for your support!

A special thank you to the volunteers who have helped prepare for the sale who aren’t this summers apprenticeship but are supporting them by the giving their valuable gift of time— what a community YOU are. ❤️

If you aren’t able to come Saturday we do have a plant list to order and pick up early, and our products are on our website!

04/28/2026

It’s Oddkin Unite week ✨ We’re so excited for our first gathering of the year exploring the space between us and how to make room for tenderness and truth. This is a space to encounter others and explore deep questions through original art, a shared meal, and discussion.

Just a few tickets remain—maybe one of them is yours. Check the link in bio + stories to snag one! This is one of the ways that we create places, stories, and beautiful schemes of rooted belonging, and we hope you join us.

04/26/2026

It rained! It rained!! You can almost hear the trees and plants singing. After this loooooong drought, the garden is feeling more itself and we are celebrating with a few fun things:

1. Succession planting cucumbers right into the lettuce beds—marked with sticks that also politely tell the neighborhood cats: not a litter box, thank you very much 🐾

2. Greens of all kinds are already ready for harvest! Stay tuned for gleaning opportunities, or DM us to come glean

3. Plants communicate, and these seedlings are basically shouting: “BEST DAY EVER.” So happy to be out of the greenhouse, drinking rain and catching the breeze

4. Succession planting okra in between the beets— our own seed we saved last year 💪

5. Strawberries that waited just long enough to ripen overnight after that deep drink 🍓

6. The wildflower patch is showing OFF and the pollinators are absolutely here for it 🐝✨

We’re doing a seedling pre-sale leading up to May 9! Want the list + how to order? Send us a DM 🌱

04/24/2026

We have Monarch Caterpillars! This is especially meaningful after our Monarch + Milkweed event but also our following our Lenten reflections and the many things these little ones represent. We hope to watch all three of these as they grow on the small patch of established milkweed in the food forest. If you come by be sure to say hello to the biggest one, fondly named “Marc” by the children.

04/21/2026

Milkweed & Monarch is still settling in our bones. 🦋🌿

The afternoon was an expression of joy, collaboration, and learning from nature—how migration, hosting, and belonging are woven together. Monarch butterflies and their host plant milkweed reminding us that we need one another.

Each piece of the day—the welcome, the land tour, the crafts, art, pizza, scavenger hunt, story-time lesson and milkweed planting —wove something meaningful together.

Grateful for ✨Rosalia Torres of Red Calaca Studio✨, Enrique Cruz of Breaking Bread, the parent groups at Oaklawn Language Academy and Charlotte East Language Academy, and our partners at The Grove Presbyterian Church and Warehouse 242. This was shared leadership in action. A vision brought to life through many hands.

Thanks to everyone who came! Shall we do it again next year?

📸: Andrea Ponce + Tyler Garnett

There’s more to say—and y’all know we like to reflect. More soon. 💛

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