Cultivating resilience, community, and healing
in people living with brain injuries through accessible farming.
ResilientSeed Healing Farm is a 1/2 acre functional, restorative community farm growing organic fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs in Milwaukie.
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit farm supporting adults living with brain injuries.
EIN: 93-4277571
ResilientSeed Healing Farm honors and offers deep gratitude to the original peoples of this land.
We acknowledge that this land has been cared for since time immemorial by the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, Wasco, bands of the Chinook, and many other Tribes that call the confluence of the Willamette and Nich’i Wana (Columbia) their home. Today, we recognize and defer to the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, Siletz Indians, Warm Springs and to the Tribes of the Yakama, Chinook and Cowlitz peoples.
ResilientSeed Healing Farm invites you to learn alongside us and reflect on whose land you are on.
Commit with us to learning, growing, and being a better guest.
Resources:
Learn more about Milwaukie and it’s linguistic indigenous history
Learn more about where you live! Native Land maps Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages.
Learn more about land acknowledgements
Support Indigenous Organizations:
Native American Youth & Family Center (NAYA)
Good Rain Farm
Wisdom of the Elders
Indigenous Marketplace
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF)
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
Underscore Native News
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, Siletz Indians, Warm Springs and to the Tribes of the Yakama, Chinook and Cowlitz
MEET YOUR FARMERS
Jenna
Co-Founder, Secretary
(she/her)
Jenna’s background is in nutrition, community health, and food as medicine. She was inspired to grow food and study nutrition after she found food to be a healing aspect after sustaining multiple concussions. She is inspired by the resiliency of plants, always finding a way to grow even in the most difficult conditions.
Contact: jenna@resilientseedhealingfarm.org
Kylie
Co-Founder, President
(she/her)
Kylie’s background is in teaching young people, outdoor environmental education, social justice & community engagement. She is inspired by the magic of planting seeds and eventually finding food at the end of its life. Taking care of a single strawberry plant and admiring her neighbor’s urban gardens helped sustain her when her brain injury was most acute and the challenges felt insurmountable. The resiliency of plants helped her find hope, meaning and purpose.
Contact: kylie@resilientseedhealingfarm.org
How It Began…
ResilientSeed Healing Farm was founded by two sisters with lived experience with brain injury (including concussion). Through our own healing journey after brain injury, we found support engaging with the land, growing our own food, and were inspired by the resiliency of nature. Brain injury can be a very unique and isolating experience and out of this need we wanted to create an accessible space for folks with brain injury to come together, share resources, and engage with the land to support their own healing journey.
