About Sky World Agroforest & Apothecary

Healing the land, healing each other, co-creating healthy futures through the medicine of reciprocal restoration, Re-story-ation, and culturally-grounded Land-based practice.

Sky World Community AgroForest and Apothecary is the evolution of what began as a hybrid approach to healing the deep-time relationships we have with the land, each other, and the Universal Truth of our small, young role in relation to Creation. We planted these seeds as a direct response, a resistance, to the forgetting, the disconnection, and the hierarchy imposed by Western actors, settler-colonialism, and the momentary yet intense disruptive harm capitalism has wrought on the land, and by extension, the People and non-human kin of the land.

Our vision is simple: to advance sovereignty and cross-cultural healing through reconnection with and care of the land, seeds, medicines, food, Indigenous Knowledge, and cross-cultural relationships leading to a holistic re-storying of our bodies, minds, spirits in relationship to the land, ancestors, and non-human kin.

We are re-storying our relationships with food and land through a community-centered agroforestry project starting on 4 small acres of old farmland. Over the next five years, we are growing healthy soil, planting and growing trees, medicines, and foods that nourish our communities through collective tending and harvesting, intergenerational education, and reciprocity.

About Stephanie Morningstar

She/Her/Hers

Stephanie is Mohawk with ancestors rooted in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and Europe. Her mother line includes Dee Dee (Schuler- Six Nations,) grandmother Fran (Hope- Six Nations,) great grandmother Mary Sophia (Brant- Tyendinaga,) and great-great-grandmother Ellen (Claus-Tyendinaga.) She is a plant nerd, medicine tender, bridge builder, soil and seed steward, scholar, student, and Earth Worker dedicated to decolonizing and liberating minds, hearts, and land- one plant, person, ecosystem, and non-human being at a time. She loves to learn and share stories about medicines; builds soil and reintegrates mycelium at Sky World Apothecary and Farm; teach about the plant-human-non-human-ancestral connection through a decolonial lens at Seed, Soil, + Spirit School; and liberates land with and for Indigenous, Black, and people of color as the Relationships and Reciprocity Co-Director at the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Stephanie is also PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Graduate Program, focusing her work on Biocultural Re-storyation of Conserved Haudenosaunee Homelands at the SUNY ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.