Sassafras Earth Education

This project will help retain and increase cultural and ecological knowledge by engaging Wôpanâak and intertribal families in land-based learning through traditional mentoring. It will leverage foodways, traditional language, housing practices to build relationships and restore cultural lifeways.

Sassafras’ LandCulture project will create and restore original native landscapes, using ancient mentoring techniques. Land restoration and mentoring will happen side by side through increasing awareness and environmental caretaking, leveraging participation of our programming, while building organizational capacity.