Acorn & Frances Rose is engaging in the practice of world-change through cultural shift. Their combined life-work ecosystems are complex and deeply woven into extended family communities across the region & the world, though particularly in & amongst (West) Philadelphia, Radical Faeries, witches (of so many stripes), and an evolving, ecologically-driven, regenerative design & agroecology movement. They devote themselves full-time to cultivating community resilience & developing regenerative food systems that serve people & planet. Containers that they’ve created to hold & grow their work include: the Cultural Engine, the Community Supported Kitchen, K is for Kitchen, the Faemily Table, and the Faerie Realm. You may learn more about these projects below, all of which are presently based out of West Philadelphia. Why do they need your help? They need your help in order to grow a network of sanctuaries & Home-places that are connected to one another in spirit & exchange. Together, they engage in the practice of community provision & cultural healing. This is important work with already far-reaching effects. To grow it as powerfully as it needs to be grown in this world, and within a relevant timeline, they need financial capital. They recognize & indeed utilize, the many other non-financial realms of capital – and already actively practice living in the gift, by sharing in these often-more-immediately-transferable gifts for the benefit of all. They freely share the material capital that is food & medicine, the living capital that are plants & seeds, the experiential capital that is vocational training in realms of expertise, the emotional capital that is listening compassionately to whomever might be sharing their table — and on & on. However, the queer, magical and folks-of-color communities that they serve most, are systematically marginalized economically & politically due to overarching systems of classism, white supremacy, ableism, homophobia, & transphobia. Many of their beloveds cannot afford to offer them the financial capital needed to do this work, let alone that which is needed to claim the work itself as their own dedicated life path. While they are steadily growing a modest income through their projects, they need your support to fill out their construction/renovation/development budget as they grow their own financial footing, and develop the capacity to share paths to financial-wealth-creation with their communities. On this journey, they were recently gifted the paid-ransom on a new community housein West Philadelphia by Frances Rose’s mother, Ava. This new home for five radicals requires significant investment to live up to its full potential as the hub of regenerative industry it is destined to become. Their plan includes the renovation of the kitchen so that it may accommodate their Community Supported Kitchens food-to-the-people work, as well as the just-birthed worker-owned-cooperative(!) K is for Kitchen (you can support their kitchen renovation directly. Meanwhile, they need to purchase & assemble a wood shed to house fuel for their wood-stove (as they journey away from reliance on fossil fuels) and to build-in-place furniture
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