Land Based Jawns

We had our Building Workshop led by 🌱🪚 Our Earthseed Skillshare workshop has been amazing! Grateful to our community for showing up ready to learn and grow.

Our THIRD Earthseed Skillshare kicks off today. Our program begins with a focus on self-defense and intentionally starts with a Body-Mind Centering workshop led by .

Understanding the somatic relationship, the connections between our minds and bodies, is such an underrated and important part of defending ourselves and the people we care about. Tune in over the next 8 weeks to hear insights about what we’re covering during the skillshare and how.

Love & Light 💕✨🌻✨💕

photos from the first skillshare by

TODAY @ 11AM: Block Party - https://mailchi.mp/b3da20608c98/today-11am-block-party

The workshop schedule for this Sunday’s Land Based / Earthseed Block Party is live!!!

Meet your educators and facilitators! We got amazing workshops planned for y’all led by very beautiful souls. Learn about their creative and creation practices and come out to support their offerings 💛🌻💜👩🏾‍🌾💚☀️🤎

Tanya Moronge from Land Based Jawns - Leading DIY Bug Spray sessions

Lady Danni - Leading Foraging walks

Tien of Body Mind Consulting - Facilitating Meditation and mindfulness sessions

Coach El - Leading Intro to Self-defense sessions

Hajjah Glover of Glover Gardens - Leading Building / Carpentry session

Jamilah Myann of Black Lotus Health Collective - Facilitating Yoga session

Live DJ and music will be lovingly brought to us by our fav

Come for workshops or come for vibes. Either way, you’re guaranteed to learn new skills, soak in the healing energy of the land and/or have a good ass time with incredible people.

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Only one week til our Land Based / Earthseed Block Party!!! Can’t wait to see y’all 🌻💕

Workshop schedule and educators dropping in a few days. Stay tuned..

Second update - The Land Based Jawns Block Party is officially rescheduled with a new location!! Join us in exactly THREE WEEKS from today. Now we know it’s technically not on a block but thats the vibe we going for. We’re partnering with Awbury Arboretum to bring y’all an amazing event at a beautiful indoor-outdoor location. We’ll gather on Sunday, September 1st at 11am.

Come be outside with us as we learn about safety & self-defense, gardening, carpentry, and herbalism from a variety of educators. Bring ya fam, bring ya kids, bring ya neighbors. This land-based living experience is free and for anyone who wants to start their journey in developing the skills highlighted in Octavia Butler’s Parables. We’ll be hosting mini versions of our skillshare workshops including: what’s in your go/grow bag, DIY bug spray, how to pitch a tent, edible wild plants, raised bed building, meditation, and self-defense.

The way we heal, get free, and stay safe is TOGETHER so come through to skill build with us. It’s still “stay ready so you ain’t gotta get ready” but with love and good vibes.

See y’all there?

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Exciting updates, y’all! First, the application for our 3rd Earthseed Skillshare is now live. Apply by August 22nd.

This Skillshare is designed by and for Black women and femmes from Philly. If you wanna learn skills related to self defense, gardening, building, and land-based living from the perspective of self love and community healing, then this Skillshare is for you. Shoutout to all the LBJs from the first two cohorts. Spread the word to your people and let them know now is the time to apply. Link in bio.

July 20, 2024.

We cannot and should not be ruled by fear. That was one of the messages that came through from Living Liberation Summit on Spiritual Activism yesterday.

We have the power, when we align with and stand in Spirit, to learn from our past and shape our present and our future. Sankofa. We have the power to “shape change.”

Today is July 20, 2024. This is the day that Lauren Olamina, the main character in Octavia Butler’s Parables, begins her journal entries. Not by coincidence, these books reflect so much of our current reality. And while the story is full of struggle and pain, it also reminds us over and over again of some important lessons:

Our teachers are all around us.

When we look to nature, we can see God because God is in all things. Grubs, bees, seeds, trees, forests, rivers, and oceans. All of it.

We have the power to shape change. All that we touch we change. All that we change changes us. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

We must be open to changing, to seeing the Divine in nature, and to recognizing the teachers around us, especially the ones who may not call themselves “teacher.”

We must not live in fear AND we also gotta stay ready.

This week, Land Based Jawns will be curating a series of informational videos, infographics, and posts covering some of the most essential outdoor/survival/land-based living skills. Save these posts or share them with your families, chosen families, and communities. When it’s all said and done, as climate disasters unfold, genocide goes unchecked, fascism expands, and capitalism poisons, we have to make a choice. We either give in and are consumed by these systems failing all around us. Or we can choose to care for each other and keep each other safe by protecting our minds, bodies, and Spirits.

Hey y’all! We got some news - due to the heat advisory, Bartram’s Garden will be closed so we have to postpone the Block Party. We’re sad we can’t get outside with y’all today but in this ever changing world with climate change as a major threat, we must also change and adapt. Safety and wellbeing of our folks is the most important.

We are working to reschedule and will share more information as soon as we have a new date locked in. Please share and pass this message to anyone you know who planned to come.

Sending love and light, always. Remember that trees provide a lot of shade and underneath can be 5-10 degrees cooler than unshaded areas. Stay cool and stay hydrated. Take care of yourselves and take care of each other 💛🌻💖

Meet your educators and facilitators for tomorrow! We got an amazing workshops planned for y’all led by very beautiful souls. Learn about their creative and creation practices and come out to support their offerings 💛🌻💜👩🏾‍🌾💚☀️🤎

Chris Bolden-Newsome of and - Leading Edible Wild Plants & Foraging session

Coach El - Leading Intro to Self-defense sessions

Tanya Moronge with LBJ Leadership/Advisory Team - Leading DIY Bug Spray sessions

Tien Sydnor-Campbell of Body Mind Consulting - Facilitating Meditation and mindfulness sessions

Hajjah Glover of Glover Gardens - Leading Building / Carpentry session

Ashley Gripper aka , Founder of Land Based Jawns - Facilitating “What’s in your Go/Grow bag” session

Live DJ and music will be lovingly brought to us by Pierre Paloma and Alejandro!

Food supplied by The Flavor Family theflavorfamily___

LOCATION UPDATE:

To give us a little shade tomorrow, we will host the Land based / Earthseed Block Party under the tent at Bartrum’s Garden. Please park in the main parking lot off of 54th and Lindbergh for easier access. If you know people coming, please share this message with them 💛🌻💚

Here’s the line up for Block Party workshops so y’all can plan accordingly! We gon be outside rain or shine but don’t worry, we got a plan to stay dry. Can’t wait to see and be with y’all on Saturday. Tell ya fam and tell a friend 🌻👩🏾‍🌾💛

We’re one week out from a beautiful time! Who coming to the Land Based / Earthseed Block Party next Saturday? We can’t wait to share these workshops and skills with each other. Here’s the line up so far:

Intro 2 Gardening/Growing
Meditation with
DIY Bug Spray
Intro to Building/Carpentry with
What’s in your go/grow bag?
Intro to Self-defense

Talk to us! Which workshops are you excited about and why? 🌻🧘🏾‍♀️🪻🦟👩🏾‍🌾

Happy birthday, Octavia Butler!!!

The block party where we hone in on many of the skills and lessons highlighted in her books is only two weeks away! We heal, thrive, and stay safe is together so come through to skill build with us. It’s still “stay ready so you ain’t gotta get ready” but with love and good vibes.

Be outside with us as we learn about safety & self-defense, gardening, carpentry, and herbalism from a variety of educators. This land-based living experience is free and for anyone who wants to start their journey in developing the skills highlighted in Octavia Butler’s Parables. You’ll also have opportunities to learn about our upcoming Earthseed Skillshare and how to apply. It’s gonna be a family and fun-filled day.

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Blessings y’all! It’s been a little minute but LBJ is still very much around. These past few months we been thinking through and feeling out how we wanna honor this “Year of Earthseed,” movement, and change. We also been sitting with and processing the pain, fear, and grief that many of us have carried. How do we hold, metabolize, and transmute these into our collective power and realize our divine and infinite possibilities?

Since Land Based Jawns began in 2020, we’ve hosted two Earthseed Skillshares and cohorts. In the third year, we spent time building out the leadership/advisory team and deepening our relationships with existing members. In this fourth year of existence, LBJ is bringing our skillshare to the public and the Philly masses.

Come through our Block Party on July 6th from 12-4pm. Bring ya fam, bring ya kids, bring ya neighbors - this event is free and open to everyone. We’ll be hosting mini versions of our skillshare workshops including: what’s in your go/grow bag, DIY bug spray, how to pitch a tent, edible wild plants, carpentry, meditation, and a self-defense Q&A.

The way we heal, get free, and stay safe is together so come through to skill build with us. It’s still “stay ready so you ain’t gotta get ready” but with love and good vibes.

Spirit-led connection is such a beautiful thing. Inspired by all the community and world building that our new friends at are doing. Thank you for the welcome, the invitation, and that sweet land-based hospitality 🫶🏽

Yo fam!! Happy Year of Earthseed! It’s been a minute. We been quiet cuz life been life-ing but we been around. Here’s some of our favorite flicks from last year.

From caring for the land, to earth bending and pottery with , to collaboratively birthing “Invasive Species” for Asian Arts Initiative, we focused heavy on relationship and community building last year. How do we work together, and work together well and rooted in love and care? How do we go deeper with our community of Black femmes beyond the Earthseed Skillshare? How do we prioritize rest and moving at the speed of each other instead of prioritizing the tasks and demands. Here’s how - we slowed it all the way down, listened to Spirit, and leaned into intentionality and care as praxis. Our liberatory work cannot only be urgency urgency urgency. Spirit and intentionality have to be a part of our liberatory movements and praxis. Period. 🪻💗🌻

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Philly!!!!!

We put in WORKKKK yesterday at the Lillian Marrero Branch Library. Land Based Jawns has been partnering with dope community leaders to transform spaces that they steward into Healing Garden Oases for Black and brown communities.

Swipe through to see before and after photos. Over the next few months, we’ll be adding some more comfort touches like benches, tables, and artwork to this library garden.

HUGE thank you to all our folks who came through to help us restore and transform this garden. It was so lovely to have hands in the soil while dancing and building community. Shout out to Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden for the plant starts. And big thanks to Down North Pizza for the delicious lunch.

Thank you the team at Lillian Marrero Library for your trust and partnership. So much love to our two favorite librarians in Philly, Mieka & Nat. Love y’all!!! 🌻🌱💪🏽💜

Starting off our second Earthseed Skillshare with Land is at the Center. Slide (virtually) next Wednesday at 6:30 PM.

During this virtual session, we will introduce Land Based Jawns, a small community-based group helping Black Philly women and femme folks to reconnect and deepen their relationships with Mama Earth.

Attendees will meet the Land Based Jawns Leadership team and gain an understanding of the inspiration and motivation for creating Land Based Jawns. We’ll share our hopes of where LBJ envisions us going in the future and how we plan to get there. For the majority of this session, we’ll be in conversation with incredible land and earth workers discussing Black and brown people’s historical relationships with land and agriculture, and connections to it spiritually. Panelists include Philly’s own Ms. V, Reverend Rhetta Morgan, Farmer Lan Dinh, Shakiya Canty, and Martin Agata Indiatsi. All this week, we’ll be highlighting our speakers and sharing wisdom from them.

Join us for this grounding, enlightening, and loving conversation. This virtual event is open to the public.

Y'all been so patiently waiting while we organize and coordinate. The Land Based Jawns Leadership Team is happy to share that the application for our second Earthseed Skillshare is now live!!

The Earthseed Skillshare is a month-long training series where we highlight and hone in on many of the themes and skills present in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Earthseed, a community in Butler’s novel, focuses on survival, spirituality, mutual aid, and rebuilding and reshaping their relationships to each other and Mama Earth. They practice and emphasize the importance of agriculture, carpentry, education, and community support. During the Earthseed Skillshare, we cover five topics: the history of Black people’s relationship to land, safety & self-defense, gardening & growing, building & rebuilding, and land-based living. All workshops take place on the weekends. See our website: www.landbasedjawns.com and/or application for more details https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUiS3Oj9T45NeHVde_q0q7aMs-rKOtiPKWuwLyYI5sEjsqJw/viewform

Last year, we hosted a beautiful cohort of Black folks and together, spent time building community and healing ourselves while learning these skills. This year, we doing more of the same. Submit your application by August 26th! We have 10 spots available. Find the link to the application here. For regular updates on the skillshare, follow us on Instagram

Please share this invitation with your networks and colleagues who might be interested. Note: this skillshare prioritizes Black Philly women and femme folks.

All love
- LBJ