Mission
Unite neighbors to cooperatively produce their annual food supply using affordable, self sufficient, evironmentally
safe methods.
Vision - More to be added
Harvest Days
Currently, in the 2009 summer season, we are harvesting vegetables on our Saturday group work days. We keep a
log book on the property to record individual hours with four hours of volunteer time in exchange for a bag of food.
The Name
In colonial Brazil, quilombos were democratic towns formed by freed and fugitive slaves. Often, a minority of
marginalized Brazilians that faced oppression during colonization were among the population. Quilombos were
active both in defending against the military forces who attempted to recapture slaves and in facilitating the escape
of even more slaves.
It is widely believed that the term quilombo originated in central Angola where the majority of slaves were forcibly
brought to Brazil, because, during the time of the slave trafficking, natives in central Angola had created an
institution called a kilombo that united various tribes of diverse lineage into a community designed for military
resistance during that time of upheaval.
Some quilombos still exist. The 1988 Constitution of Brazil granted the remaining quilombos the collective
ownership of the lands they have occupied since colonial times, thus recognizing their distinct identity at the same
level of the indigenous people.
The spirit of our garden correlates with the quilombos of old in that we seek to foster community cohesion
through support systems among neighbors that empower us to provide for our basic needs, especially food, so we
will not be solely dependent on an fragile global economy.