Food Justice & Sovereignty Program
Our harvest season has started for 2025!
Due to funding purposes we unfortunately are not able to host stewarding days for individuals this season but we are offering organization volunteer days.
Reach out to fjs@hafnco.org if you are interested in bringing a group of volunteers from your organization to our garden!"
we have a revamping educational program in collaboration with other community members.
Food Justice & Sovereignty Gathering series:
Sowing the Seeds of Change
Is a transformative gathering series bridging ecological and social justice, cultivating equitable community spaces while cultivating biodiverse gardens
Summer Plant Walk :
Summer Plant Walk :
Summer Plant Walk: Meeting and Connecting with our local plant allies
Instructor: Mariamor Pazos
Date: Thursday, July 3rd, 6-7:30pm
Bio: Mariamor is a Postpartum Doula, Folk Herbalist, and student of the plants. Mariamor’s lineage comes from Honduras and Guatemala. She has studied deeply with the Yucatec Maya lineage to learn about womb care, abdominal massage and working in right relationship with the plants for healing support. Find out more at sweetmedicinebymariamor.com
Class description: Join us for a plant walk to learn more about our local plant allies. I will share some medicine tasters so you can also experience the medicines of the plants. I will share about plants that are helpful for making medicines and wild foods. We will wander through the land to meet, smell, touch and identify local allies.
Soil Smart Workshop
Soil Smart Workshop
Mayra Ponce is a nature enthusiast and passionate about creating positive environmental change. After leaving a career in single-use plastics, she embraced regenerative practices and earned certifications in composting, soil regeneration, and permaculture. She now focuses on making regenerative gardening part of everyday life. Through her platform www.eljardinecologico.com, she teaches gardening classes to the Hispanic community.
Class Description: Learn how to care for soil through hands-on permaculture techniques. This class covers composting, cover cropping, and other sustainable practices that build long-term soil health. Whether you're a gardener, farmer, or simply curious, you’ll gain essential tools to support healthy ecosystems from the ground up.
Our FJS Program will be focused on Food Justice and Sovereignty in Urban Garden & Farm settings locally. As all of our programs and projects are initiated by the needs and request of community members, we are working with local collaborators, educators, Indigenous leaders, and land stewards to bring land access and participatory education opportunities for underserved families, individuals, and BIPOC+ to co-create actionable equity and trust building.
As in our previous year’s project at the Indigenous Foods Garden, we are committed to grow healthy food and distribute it for free to elders and community members alike.
Reparations we focus on are restoring traditional ecological knowledge to low income & BIPOC+ community members, empowerment, emotional wellness through connection, land access for displaced peoples, and a mission to build trust with our youth in a healthy environment while building knowledge and confidence through experience. We love that this program is Indigenous- led because representation matters, and seeing POC in leadership while consulting First Nations People about land use and relations repairs the systems of colonization and oppression by directly reversing it.
Grateful to our collaborators that are making it happen!
Growing Gardens, Suelo Bueno, El Centro Amistad, CU Environmental Justice Center, Tribe Recovery Center, Boulder Food Rescue
Come join us in our gardens and reconnect with the Earth, learn to grow vegetables and flowers, harvest and cook with us! Families, teens, adults, and elders are all welcome!
Our gardens are safe spaces for Black, Indigenous people and descendants of indigenous communities, and all communities of color seeking to reconnect or maintain their connection with the Earth.
Our gardens are spaces for learning to grow, take care of, and harvest vegetables and flowers without using pesticides. Our gardens are spaces for cultural exchange for reclaiming and exchanging ancestral knowledge and genetic memory of growing, harvesting, and cooking ancestral foods and medicines native to the lands now known as North America.
If you have any questions or concerns about the Food Justice & Sovereignty Program, feel free to reach out to us at fjs@hafnco.org. We're here to help and are eager to hear from you!
Thank you to all of our amazing stewards, and to our photographers, Rhianna Truex and Sophia Piña-McMahon, for capturing these images!
