RED SILK
Weaving Land, Knowledge, and Community
Red Silk is a land-based community initiative of Ember Rise that brings people together through direct engagement with the land.
Rooted in place, the initiative creates opportunities for learning, reflection, and dialogue through land-based activities that deepen understanding of ecological relationships, community responsibility, and local knowledge systems.
Red Silk is grounded in the belief that land is not a backdrop to community life, but an active teacher and relative in the process of learning and connection. Through time spent on the land, participants are invited to slow down, observe, listen, and learn from the relationships that sustain life.
Like threads woven into fabric, Red Silk brings together land, knowledge, and community to support more connected and resilient ways of living.
Vision
Communities living in reciprocal relationship with the land, guided by practices that are regenerative, respectful, and rooted in place.
MISSION
To strengthen relationships between people and land through hands-on, land-based learning experiences that foster care, responsibility, and shared understanding. Red Silk creates spaces where knowledge emerges through direct engagement with place, supporting deeper ecological awareness and community connection.
OBJECTIVES
- Facilitate land-based learning experiences and gatherings rooted in place
- Strengthen relationships between people, land, and local ecosystems
- Support experiential learning through observation, participation, and practice on the land
- Create spaces for reflection, dialogue, and shared learning from land-based experiences
- Engage with diverse knowledge systems grounded in place and lived experience
- Support intergenerational learning, including participation from Elders, youth, and knowledge holders
- Foster ecological awareness and responsibility through direct engagement with land
- Build respectful relationships between communities and the environments they inhabit
- Encourage practices of stewardship, reciprocity, and care for the land
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MEET OUR PEOPLE
Our people form the board of directors, advisory circles and working groups rooted in shared responsibility, bringing lived experience, knowledge, and collaboration to guide and grow this work together.
