our roots
Earth Tenders is a black-led community garden and archiving project based in South London.
We offer low or no-cost workshops and training in food growing, medicine making, nature walks, crafts
and wellbeing practices for our communities.
Earth Tenders began as a roaming and seasonal workshop provider in communities across London offering nature and holistic facilitation. We are responding to the collective call for BPOC-led and affirming spaces within earth practices.
Our work is inspired by generations of earth-tending Ancestors before us.
“We are living through multiple crises at the moment, from economic to health crisis to ecological collapse. Now more than ever, we need to find our way back to ourselves and re-connect to the source, to what matters. I believe that for example the climate crisis is of course a crisis driven by racial capitalism, but it is also a crisis of disembodiment and disconnection. Many African and Indigenous worldviews and spiritual teachings often illustrate the importance of interdependence, meaning - the importance of seeing nature as kin - as an extension of the self. These traditions and belief systems often regard nature with deep respect and connect the health of the self and community with the health of the planet. This in turn creates a strong sense of place and belonging in a world that prioritises separation and domination. Separation and domination as we know, fuel white supremacy and capitalism. Choosing to find our way back to ourselves, each other and the land is a beautiful act of resistance.”
- Idman Abdurahaman