Our paid newsletter for January will dive deep into ethical pet food (focusing primarily on dogs) and include a base recipe for making your own. Because vegan dogs or cats don't align with the reality of high-welfare animal keeping, regardless of what studies funded by Purina and other dog food giants who want to keep selling dog food (even to vegan pet owners) claim.

If you bump your subscription to the paid tier for just $5, you'll get it in your inbox at the end of the week, and you'll help an Indigenous land steward maintain control of a piece of ancestral land that we may otherwise lose. And honestly, the value of our current paid posts archive is worth much more than that, so please consider it if you would otherwise spend that $5 on a coffee tomorrow morning.

#MutualAid #IndigenousOwned #Ethics #PetFood #Dogs #Vegan #Sustainability

We poured a lot into this new post on pigs, and who doesn't love learning more about these intelligent, sniffy, chonky beings? Check it out:

https://rancholibertad.com/on-pigs-and-integrating-new-allies/

There's a LOT going on right now including us potentially needing to give up the land and move. If you're capable of upping your subscription to the paid tier it's just FIVE dollars a month and it helps us out a lot. We also still accept donations through our (currently slightly neglected) co-owner's ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sigillosacro. We're offering a lot of good stuff for free and we do it because it needs to be done but also any contributions help us justify the time and energy we're spending doing this instead of other things that could keep us afloat.

Anyway. Love you all, stay safe out there, and thank you for reading and sharing if you do!

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #RegenerativeAg #Homestead #NativeSovereignty #IndigenousOwned #IndigenousSovereignty #Community #MutualAid #Pigs #Farming

If you're up in #Namgis territory/ #AlertBay - you'll want to try & get some yummy bannock eats from #DuchessBannockAndDesserts. The hours are irregular, like most small businesses on #CormorantIsland. If you luck out - you'll find the Duchess of #Bannock & she will fill your belly while engaging in lively conversations!
I found out on my 2023 trip there, that she's an Auntie/relative to some of my Indigenous friends 💗

She gifted me a book, a magic hat bunny plushie & gave us free cheese bannock bites to eat on the ferry. We bought 3 different bannock goodies from her.

#NamgisNation #SupportSmallBusiness #IndigenousFoods #NativeSmallBiz #CoastSalish #BCIndigenousSmallBiz #NativeFoods #CoastalBC #IndigenousOwned #ExploreBC #BCBusiness #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #POCwomen #CulturalConnections #CulturalDiversity

We finally have an update for you all on what has been going on here! This gives a little info on why we've been so distant, what we've been navigating, and some very exciting additions to the Ranch.

https://rancholibertad.com/quarterly-updates-awaiting-the-return-of-the-light/

I hope to share some very fun pictures of our new animal residents soon, and I feel like I have a lot to say about this season as a whole that I'd like to share here rather than in a longer form newsletter.

Please email us your questions if you'd like to participate in this quarter's paid sub Q&A. Last quarter we were able to give some very in-depth answers to wonderful questions, so if you have something pertinent to your own project or goals now is a great time to learn from our experiences! Paid subscribers have also been promised a gift for the Solstice season, and if you're one of them please send us your address so that we may send you some goodies from the land.

I hope to be more active here very soon, I wish to catch up on all of your posts and updates and be a little more participatory in this community. It is almost the season, we have one more push before we'll be settling back into a routine and having more leisure time.

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #Community #RegenerativeAg #Livestock #Animals #Farm #Homestead #IndigenousOwned #MutualAid #CommunitySovereignty

Thank you to all of our subscribers for being so patient: I just released our late paid newsletter for October. I look forward to getting back on track for November!

October's paid newsletter is a brief intro to home fermentation with a recipe for preserved lemons that is definitely worth trying!

Please share with a friend and let them know paid subscriptions help us support our residents and our mission of building a sovereign community and regenerating this land for future generations. Our residents are some of the most vulnerable under this current regime, and now more than ever we're relying on your support to keep going and continue to support them in having a place to live and good food to eat so they may continue to spend their time working on community liberation.

https://rancholibertad.com/wild-fermentation-an-intro/

#IndigenousOwned #Indigenous #RanchoDeLaLibertad #CommunitySovereignty #MutualAid #Sovereignty #Liberation #Queer #POCOwned #FoodSovereignty

If you're interested in learning how you can more deeply participate in or support our mission of building community sovereignty and stewarding abused land, you can find options for in-person or financial participation on our website:

https://rancholibertad.com/participate

We just opened our Supporter tier, and look forward to offering more opportunities to support locally and from afar in August. Those who subscribe at the Supporter tier receive a twice yearly gift basket of goodies from the Ranch (the first will be sent in December) as well as access to participate in quarterly Q&A posts.

You will also know (perhaps most importantly) that you are tangibly supporting projects that enable us to better serve residents (now and in the future), guests seeking sanctuary, and the land. Projects such as tree planting, renewable energy infrastructure, sustainable building, animal stewardship, sustainable and place-sensible food production, and more.

We are so grateful to you for your interest and collaboration ✨

#MutualAid #ClimateDirectAction #ClimateChange #Renewable #Regeneration #RegenerativeAg #Permaculture #RanchoDeLaLibertad #Community #CommunitySovereignty #IndigenousOwned #WomanOwned

I'll be calling #KaatzAdventures on Monday to ask about a double kayak rental so me & Ojistoh can get to a really nice boat access only spot. We want have a fire & do some drumming ceremony there. She has never been there & I haven't been there in almost 20 years.

Kaatza Adventures is owned and operated by #Tsuubaaasatx #FirstNation - formerly known as #LakeCowichan First Nation.

They also host #IndigenousBeading workshops in the Summer.
https://www.kaatzaadventures.com/workshops

#SupportNativeOwnedBusiness #IndigenousSmallBiz #Cowichan #VancouverIsland #KayakRentals #IndigenousOwned #CoastSalish

Canada’s biggest #IndigenousOwned #bank is planning a major expansion that will raise as much as $50 million to reach more customers.

#Saskatoon based #FirstNationsBank of #Canada aims for an issuance later this year that could expand its capital by as much as 50%, with a goal to double its $600 million loan book over the next few years, chief executive Bill Lomax said in an interview. This may be the first of two equity raises in the next couple of years, he said.

https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/banking/canada-biggest-indigenous-owned-bank-plans-expansion