Land In Black Hands Harvest Gathering: Of Seeds and Soils

Come gather with us at Land In Black Hands (LIBH) for our annual Harvest Gathering—a day of food, stories, learning, and connection on the land.

Alongside Mimi Lucero of Inside the Husk, we’ll explore the living relationships between soil, seeds, people, and place through hands-on soil training, a community talking circle with Chenae Bullock, and opportunities to learn and work together.

We’ll share a meal, harvest from the land, and gather around the table for a food preparation workshop with Chef Yunique. A potluck dish is welcome, but not required.

We’ll also celebrate what’s happening at LIBH, including our Purple Collard Project grow-out and seed stories, while deepening our relationship with the Hudson Valley Farm Hub and others helping to keep our region’s agricultural knowledge and seed traditions alive.

Take home seeds as an invitation to continue the connection.

Come celebrate what we’ve grown, what we’re learning, and what we’re planting for the future.

LIBH Land Base is not open to the public. The location is near Red Fox Ravine but not at Red Fox Ravine. The location will be emailed to you several days before the event. Please contact shaniqua@kingstonlandtrust.org for the address or if you have any questions. 

Meet Our Facilitators

Chenae Bullock is an enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Nation the first contact tribe of Long Island and a living descendant of the Montauk people. She is an Indigenous leader, water protector, cultural preservationist, and founder & CEO of Moskehtu Consulting, an Indigenous-led sustainability and cultural strategy firm advancing regenerative leadership across business, government, and philanthropy.Deeply rooted in ancestral practice, Chenae has led the resurgence of traditional northeastern Algonquin canoe culture. Following in the footsteps of her whaling ancestors, she has organized and guided sacred paddles through historic waterways from Shinnecock to Mashantucket Pequot, across the Long Island Sound, and most notably from Boston to New York City reclaiming Indigenous presence along ancestral trade and migration routes. Through every role as executive, ceremonial leader, strategist, and advocate Chenae’s mission remains clear: to restore Indigenous visibility, embed cultural intelligence into institutional systems, and build a future where environmental stewardship, economic advancement, and ancestral knowledge move forward together.

Mimi Lucero, a Kichwa woman with a background in science and bioculture, will facilitate a conversation alongside Lala about who has access and rights to grow, move, and share plants, and how we can do so while honoring our cultures and recognizing the ongoing work and presence of Indigenous peoples who have cultivated and called this land—Lenapehoking—home since long before Kingston.