In 2018, fifteen humans began a series of playful and radical processes designed to co-create a model of land stewardship rooted in principles of non-ownership, consensus, economic equity, ecology and emergence. The result, in colonial terms, was the River Rising NFP, the legal steward of 360 acres along the Black River's billion year old volcanic shores.

In human time, the ongoing outcome of artists, children, educators, herbalists, social activists, and psychotherapists, stepping out of the city’s stagnation and onto the land’s inspiration has been transformative.

River Rising is a living response to the world we are in...

We are in a process of undoing modern conditioning by re-exploring cultures and re-wilding practices that open and sensitize our-selves to the non-digital world, awakening our inner sensoriums and moving together from a space that is unmediated by algorithms and mechanisms of control.

We place relationships and land at the centre of our praxis. Through this work, we pay attention to what is emerging on the land and within us so as to create new, supportive, and sustainable systems. We are re-membering ourselves.