Partners and Community Projects
Stone Cabin Collective
In 1974 Dine members of the Black Mesa/Big Mountain community faced their most recent government-forced relocation. Many refused to leave, claiming their ancestral homelands. While these families continue to live on their own lands today, they do so without access to the power grid, running water or appropriate year round road maintenance. The movie Broken Rainbow documents the decades old struggle.
In 2010, the Stone Cabin Collective was formed- an all volunteer group of herbalists, massage providers, energy workers and lay people, to offer free bi-annual health services in the Big Mountain/Black Mesa area of AZ. Our Elder Wellness Week was organized to honor the elders especially, but people of all ages were welcome. Our group of volunteers is small, but we’ve offered body work, herbs and footbaths to hundreds of residents during our pop up clinics at senior centers. Since the pandemic began, we have been collecting and delivering a wide variety of medical and household supplies to the most remote households there.
Flowers for Black Beloveds
In 2014 a group of community members came together to celebrate Black women and girls, and honor ourselves as we mourned the loss of Teaira Whitehead. We continue to ask #WhatHappenedtoTeairaWhitehead because we will never forget our dear sibling nor any of the Black women, girls, femmes, MAGES and people impacted by gender-based violence. We commit to and will continue to do the life-affirming work of giving Black folks our flowers while we are here. We will honor our beauty, dynamism, and resilience in all of our manifestations!
In 2019, Cutting Root Farm began to collaborate with the Black Unicorn Library Project to make 10+ deliveries per week to Black women (Trans, gender-expansive, fluid, cis) girls, femmes, masculine of center folks, non-binary people, and/or MaGes (people of Marginalized Genders). Fill out this form to request flowers, plant medicines, flower seeds or to gift them to someone else. We are growing this project with our cut flower garden in East Liberty where flowers are available in season. Please contact us if you would like to volunteer or support this project.
