Welcome to Rose Island Farm
Rose Island Farm sits on the homelands of the Puyallup Nation who continue to be the protectors and original stewards of this land. Their ancestors, along with the ancestors of all of the Coastal Salish Peoples, have for millennia tended all the amazing diverse plant relatives found in these Salish landscapes.
Their stewardship practices inform and give us guidance as we raise our family and tend the soil in these Puyallup homelands. I recognize that we as a Tsimshian First Nation and Nuxalk family are guests on this territory and we don’t take this privilege for granted. As guests, we know it is our responsibility to tend these lands in a good way following the wisdom and leadership of the Puyallup Nation and for future generations. We hold our hands up with gratitude to be held so lovingly on Puyallup lands.
Our Farm Story
Founded in 2020, Rose Island Farm continues to be a space for sharing and collective community (re)membering of Indigenous foods and healing ways.
We center Queer and Trans BIPOC relatives, Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, and people of the global majority. We remain in alignment with what our Ancestral wisdom and the land already tell us - that food, medicine, and healing should be sustainable, regenerative, bioregional, community-built, decolonized and liberating.
Our farm is also home to an herbal apothecary and we mutually tend one acre of land, home to food and medicine gardens, and many precious relatives. Our offerings include handcrafted, seasonal products, and traditional skill shares to (re)connect people to the land.
Rose Island Farm is named after the village that Melissa comes from in northern BC, Lax kw’alaams or “Island of Wild Roses.” Our farm logo was designed by Nuxalk artist Danika Saunders.