Pathways of Purpose

06/02/2026

🌈🌈🌈Happy Pride🌈🌈🌈 We love our LGBTQIA+ and Two Spirit Family, Friends, Neighbors and Community!!! Our liberation is all tied together, solidarity is a must 💫

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06/02/2026

Please join us for Meeting the Moment series with the California Community Land Trust Network and the International Center for Community Land Trusts, as part of the inaugural 6-week

🌱Our Talk:
Solidarity and Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples in the California CLT Movement

🌱Date & Time:
Tues, June 9, 2026 • 1-2:30pm PT on Zoom

🌱Registration:
Register via link in bio or at tinyurl.com/CLTsolidarity

🌱Speakers:
🌸Darlene Franco, Wukchumni CLT

🌸Aerin Monroe, Pathways of Purpose & Liberated Futures Lab CLT

🌸Ruth Wortman, Humboldt Healthy Families & LFL CLT partner

🌸Alice Lincoln-Cook, Firekeeper Alliance & LFL CLT partner

🌱Topics:
This workshop will feature stories of how Indigenous-led (and co-led) groups in California are utilizing community land trusts to advance land back, rematriation, reparations, food sovereignty and cultural revitalization. It will highlight calls to action and open up opportunities to hear from participants on their experiences fostering greater solidarity with tribal communities, and lessons in Black and Indigenous cooperation in the CLT movement.

05/31/2026

Pay what is owed 💸💸💸

The Garden Is a Ledger
Black urban farming isn’t a lifestyle trend. It’s an accounting of stolen land, withheld credit, and communities rebuilding wealth from the soil up.

In American cities, you can still find the old logic of abandonment written in the landscape. There are blocks where the streetlights work but the supermarkets don’t. Where liquor stores glow at the corners and the nearest produce looks like a rumor. Where vacant land, instead of being a civic wound, becomes a kind of invitation: a place where anything can happen because nothing is being protected.
Black urban farming begins in that gap—between what a neighborhood needs and what the market is willing to supply. But the practice is not new, and it is not merely about food. It is an inheritance of rural skill carried into the city through forced migration and economic necessity; a political response to segregation, disinvestment, and unequal health outcomes; and, increasingly, a contest over land tenure in neighborhoods that become “valuable” only after residents have made them livable.

To understand the significance of Black American urban farmers, you have to hold two stories at once. One is intimate and practical: grandparents teaching children to pinch tomato suckers and read weather, the quiet pride of a corner-lot garden that turns into dinner. The other is structural and national: the long, documented history of Black land loss and exclusion from agricultural credit and support, and the way those forces echo inside cities as food access, public health, and zoning policy. The garden is never just a garden; it is a civic argument, made in compost and labor.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/03/05/the-garden-is-a-ledger/

05/30/2026

Save the date for the upcoming 5th annual Redwood Coast Two-Spirit Conference (previously called the North Coast Two-Spirit Conference). More details to follow as we get closer to this awesome event!

05/30/2026

Hey Humboldt- A few more spots left for Redwood Roots CSA!

05/29/2026

Opportunity for TEK land stewardship training in Redding, CA.

Join our summer crew to learn how to take care of the land!

Native Roots Network (NRN) is seeking motivated young adults (18-24) to join the Yə
Kila Land Restoration Crew, an 8-week Land Stewardship Cohort, focused on cultural
reconnection, ecological restoration, traditional knowledge, and leadership
development. Participants will engage in hands-on land stewardship projects while
learning about soil and water health, traditional plants and foods, biodiversity, fire
ecology, biochar, and NRN’s very own community production lab.

The program blends Traditional Indigenous Knowledge with Western science and
includes weekly cultural language components, rotating crew leadership roles, and a
final reflection and celebration. Crew members will work together as a cohort,
contributing to meaningful restoration work on the land while building skills in teamwork,
critical thinking, safety, and community leadership. Basic gear will be provided during
the program.

Participants will leave with practical skills, stronger community ties, and a deeper
relationship with the land. Application and information below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKAryLosgC8X0e6_S1tR4TKw3QaWkGZK884LfFq5mdvYzUIg/viewform

05/29/2026

We are pleased to share that our two Karuk-sponsored California bills, The Beneficial Fire Capacity Act (AB 1891), authored by Damon Connolly and the Indigenous Water Rights Bill (AB 2218), authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra both passed off the Assembly floor this week! As did the Karuk-supported Good Fire Act (AB 1699), authored by Chris Rogers.

Many thanks to Assemblymember Damon Connolly for his leadership and to Assemblymember Heather Hadwick for her words of support on AB 1891 🔥 and to Assemblymember Ash Kalra for his leadership on AB 2218! 🌊

Next stop: the California Senate!

📸: Karuk Tribe

05/29/2026

HAPPENING TODAY 🌿

We’ll be exploring questions around decolonizing motherhood, reconnecting to Land and community, raising children beyond patriarchy and rigid binaries, nervous system healing, Indigenous ways of nurturing, accountability versus punishment, collective care, and what it means to raise children toward liberation.

About the Mothers on Panel:

Dr. Tasha Spillett is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, and scholar of Cree and Trinidadian descent. Her work lives at the intersection of education, storytelling, and community healing. Through her teaching and public speaking, she uplifts Indigenous students and students of colour by creating culturally responsive spaces grounded in relationality, equity, and joy. Dr. Tasha brings her deep cultural knowledge into every classroom and conversation, honouring her responsibility as an Afro-Indigenous woman to foster belonging and liberation. She is the author of the multi-award-winning graphic novel series Surviving the City and the bestselling picture books I Sang You Down from the Stars and Beautiful You, Beautiful Me.

Jenny Sutherland is from the James Bay Lowlands and Omushkegowuk territory of Moose Cree First Nation. As an educator and Truth and Reconciliation Specialist, she is deeply passionate about holistic healing, reconnecting to Land, and restoring compassionate ways of relating to ourselves, one another, and the Earth. Jenny gently holds space for misunderstanding while helping people move toward cultural sensitivity, relational accountability, and deeper connection to spirit and community.

Asha Frost is the bestselling author of You Are the Medicine, an Indigenous healer, oracle deck creator, mentor, and mother. Her work is devoted to helping people reconnect to the medicine already living within them: the spark, wisdom, and power waiting to be reclaimed. Asha is from the Crane Clan (Aji-jaak Dodem) and a member of Neyaashiinigmiing (Cape Croker) First Nation. She currently lives on Anishinaabe, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee territory.

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You do not have to be a mother to attend. This space is also for people who are childfree but curious about the sacred role of mothers, people who hold nurturing roles within community, educators, aunties, helpers, partners, caregivers, or anyone wanting to learn how to better support mothers and children in a good way.
Our children deserve more than inherited survival patterns. They deserve worlds rooted in safety, belonging, tenderness, truth, and freedom.

I’m so excited to gather with you all soon! 🤍

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Thursday, May 28
2 PM MST / 4 PM EST
Via Zoom

The webinar will be 90 minutes together:
• 45 minutes of panel discussion
• 45 minutes of audience Q&A

To join, sign up for the RIW Patreon Community (Tier 3) using code RIWSALE for 50% off:

patreon.com/u71040194

05/21/2026

🌲FRIDAY MAY 22nd IN HUMBOLDT🌲

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COORDINATING COUNCIL OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 2026 ROUNDTABLE

BUILDING BRIDGES: COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, CHILD & FAMILY SAFETY

DATE: MAY | 22m | 2026
LOCATION: Fortuna River Lodge | 1800 Riverwalk Dr Fortuna, CA 95540
TIME: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

DETAILS: Free event
Pastries & lunch provided
Networking opportunities
Info on Senate Bill 119
Catering by McKinleyville High School
More to come!

💫Sign up with the QR code on the flyer

05/15/2026

🌸 Pathways of Purpose would like to uplift and celebrate our fellow Tatiana for 🎓 graduating with her MA in 🌱 environment and community from Cal Poly Humboldt this week. We are honored to not only be her friends, mentors and collaborators in our nonprofit organization, but we also served on her thesis committee.

Tati has been a fellow with POP since 2024, and was part of our flagship cohort program. She has thankfully stayed with us through thick and thin ✊🏾, including two summer programs and we have had the privilege of watching her grow and lead the way forward in our field. She has become a 🌱garden and 🍓food sovereignty educator for Hupa youth, an emerging farmer and land steward, and brilliant scholar in the field of environmental education.

Our environmental justice programs and community work has benefited multifold from Tatiana‘s distinct gifts along with her kindness, openness and attention to detail. We have been able to grow as mentors and organizational leaders along with our fellows, they teach us so much!

Each time Tati decides to 💪🏽 really do something, she puts her whole mind, body, heart, and soul 💫 into doing it to the best of her capabilities. This determination and steadfastness will continue creating positive change and progress in the world infinitely, impacting many generations to come 🔮

We could not be more proud and thankful to be collaborators, colleagues and in community with Tatiana and we are excited to imagine what brilliant things they will do next.

We will always be here to support and encourage you to keep dreaming. Congratulations on all of your hard work and achievements!!! 🌸 *And thank you to her loving pup Pickle for being the most supportive best friend, helping in the garden education program and bringing joy everywhere he goes.