Click-buy abstraction and technology can obscure the forces which sustain life — soil, water, sunlight, fire, and air. Interested in forms of education that center the land? There are abundant regional resources.
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
An urban indigenous women led group that is rematriating land and educating people.
Berkeley Student Farms
A collection of democratically-run student farms which seek to meet basic needs and practice food justice.
Merritt College Landscape Horticulture
A program at the local community college which offers classes on urban farming, herbalism, and other subjects of interest.
Gill Tract Farm
A community-run farm, on UC-owned land near University Village, Albany. A 2012 movement known as "Occupy the Farm" prevented UC from building over the soil.