A Project Rooted in Place

Rayne Hawk Ranch is a project rooted in place.

We are a farm located in a specific location, with a specific climate, and aiming to provide our local community with food, tea, flowers, education, and outdoor connection.

This is a practice in our digital, global age. We need a sense of rootedness, of being connected to the land and the people where we are. A sense of slow circular time, of seasonality, of being in our bodies, of working with the conditions that arise from day to day.

It is also a bet on the future that is coming for us, one that returns to a focus on the local.

Decision: No Shipping

One practical application of this is that we do not ship plants or products.

The nutrients, effort, and enjoyment should cycle here, in this place. As a global society, we keep exporting nutrients, water, and resources from all over, emitting and polluting as a byproduct. This is not how our ecosystems developed – they expect cycling to happen locally. They expect buffers and supplies to accumulate locally. So much disruption has happened as a result of this.

We get it; we too participate in this global system of shipping and convenience. Many of the plants in our collection have been shipped from other places. But we also seek not to continue that, to try to shift that pattern to something different.