Herbs are the people's medicine. Everyone should be able to affordably access herbal knowledge, skills, and materials. We resist ideas that land, or plants, and can be owned by individuals and do not seek to make a profit from herbal medicine or herbal education. Instead, Gather & Grow is working towards a Gift Economy model, inspired by the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer. Through exchange of our time, skills, goods, and labor, we can reimagine a world based less in the creation of profit and more in community care.
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People have different abilities, identities, strengths and needs. Gather & Grow uses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Cultural Responsive Pedagogy to make workshops and after school offerings accessible to all who want to participate. This includes offering services free of cost to anyone who needs it.
We admit to not having all of the solutions to ableism and inaccessibility & commit to learning from Healing Justice and Disability Justice practitioners, as well as amending and learning from inaccessible behaviors.
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Humans are meant to be in relationship with each other and the Earth. Gather & Grow is committed to building and maintaining healthy relationships grounded in reciprocity, respect and collective action.
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Relationships are at their strongest when community members engage in reciprocal exchange of knowledge, skills, and goods. We benefit from knowing that we will be taken care of, and when wetake care of others in return.
We all have the capacity to enact harm and conflict is inevitable. Many spaces we navigate in our culture, including our criminal legal system, are not set up to holistically address harm or provide adequate repair for those affected by it. We actively shame and punish people who overtly cause harm, making it difficult for others to admit their own mistakes. People deserve communities and relationships that are accountable to their needs, where harm is acknowledged and relationships are restored through adequate repair and changed behavior.
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Relationships are messy and we deserve communities committed to engaging in harm repair and conflict resolution. Gather & Grow strives to be one of those spaces. We'll get it wrong sometimes, and we promise to hold ourselves accountable.​​
We live in a society steeped in historical trauma and ongoing systems of oppression, in which all of us are negatively impacted by. We acknowledge that some people are impacted by these systems more directly than others and that those of us with historically dominant identities hold a significant amount of responsibility for upending those systems and creating something different.​
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Gather & Grow is committed to being a space that addresses racism, ablism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemism, Islamaphobia, Orientalism and other forms of oppression when they occur.
We believe that oppression exists at multiple levels of society and specific manifestations require different, and often concurrent, interventions.
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We also acknowledge that in responding to one instance of injustice, we can inadvertantly cause the manifestation of another system of oppression. We reject solutions that uphold colonialism, capitalism, or carceral logic.
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