From Stardust To Us

Hands in the Soil: Kara Huntermoon on Ecology, Ancestral Skills and the Future We're Building

Bernice Marie-Daly, Ph.D. and LaNell Haydon Season 2 Episode 1

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In this conversation, we sit with Kara Huntermoon, whose life and work are deeply committed to the Long Tom Watershed and the human and more-than-human communities of the Southern Willamette Valley. Kara shares how her path unfolded into hyper-local, hands-on ecological and community work, teaching permaculture and ancestral skills, living in intentional community, and organizing with neighbors to respond to climate change and the need for collective survival.

Kara speaks from a lived relationship with land, animals, and community.  At the heart of her work are two intertwined practices: Liberation Listening, the internal and interpersonal work to heal the trauma carried by humans who have been isolated from one another and from the Earth. and ecological integration, the ongoing process of helping humans rejoin the living ecological community of their watershed.

This conversation is grounded in humility and gratitude for Indigenous stewardship and traditional ecological knowledge; for ancestors; and for the many teachers, scientists, farmers, permaculturists, midwives, herbalists, and earth-based practitioners, who have modeled what it looks like to love land and community.

Find out more about her work at:

https://karahuntermoon.substack.com/

https://karahuntermoon.com/

With thanks and gratitude to all of our listeners. If you would like to get in touch, we can be reached at fromstardusttous@gmail.com.