Radical Nourishment: Seasonal Foraging Walk & Meal with Nibezun

We partnered with Nibezun, a cultural, healing, & sustainability organization based on ancestral Wabanaki lands along the Penobscot River. “Nibezun” means medicine in the Penobscot language. The root word “nibi” – or water – is our first medicine.

Food sovereignty advocate Jazz Thompson-Tintor led us on a walk through the woods where we foraged for nettles, trout lily, fiddleheads, and dandelion, then prepared a meal together of moose meatballs, cream of fiddlehead, a salad with wild edibles, and acorn flour cookies (acorn flour connecting us back to Parable of the Sower).

It felt grounding, connecting, & safe to be in community with fellow Black & Brown people coming together across different geographical roots & lineages, and it was an honor to be welcomed as guests on Penobscot territory, building relationships with one another, learning from the land’s wisdom, remembering how to be in right relationship with nature. Despite colonization's best efforts to disconnect us from our ancestral lineages and from each other, on a day like this, we’re so grateful, reinvigorated, reconnected through this experience, and we’re reminded that we have each other as we move toward ensuring justice and sovereignty for all people everywhere.

Photos by Nolan Altvater