About

Our place

The land beneath the blue oaks on which we grow sits within the ancestral territories of the Plains Miwok peoples, specifically between the historic villages of Chilamne (near Bellota) and Seuamne (near Jenny Lind). These were not fleeting camps but rooted homes — places where acorns were pounded, nets were woven, songs were sung, and children learned the names and ways of every plant.

Hummingbirds stitch light through the oaks growing within the watershed of the stream now called Indian Creek — a name that carries layered history — and around us, in low swales and in the quiet gather of winter rains, are the vernal pools: ephemeral bodies of water that appear, hold life briefly, and vanish — connectors between sky, soil, and the rain’s transitory grace. Those pools are seasonal shrines to renewal, cradling rare species and echoing the cyclical wisdom of the people who moved with them rather than against them.

The soaproot which grows here, the herons and egrets which fish, the late-winter pools ringing with frog song — these are not just scenery. They are inheritance: a wet season’s spring, swelling with refuge, draining into generosity, refilling again. By stewarding both native plants and the flow of water onto and through this land, we participate in sustaining not only individuals but entire life webs — webs shaped over millennia by Plains Miwok care.

And by opening access to the living tradition-bearers of these places, we honor Chilamne and Seuamne not as dots on a map, but as memories still breathing in watershed and wilderness — season by season, pool upon stone.

May the peace of gently drowning waters rest over this land and those it receives.

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