ReRooting Kinship Soil Sensoria, GLBW Conference 2025

What can we learn from the soil about our fundamental interconnectedness?

This short video brings viewers into a Re-Rooting Kinship, Oneness & Interdependence Soil Sensoria held at the Green Lands Blue Waters 2025 Conference, How We Come Together for a More Diverse Ag Landscape.

Enter a cosmic and liberating realm of rhythmic sensoria in re-rooting kinship, interconnectivity, oneness, and interdependence. Deeply reflect on “What can we learn from the soil about our fundamental interconnectedness?” For those daring and savvy folks, we further invite you to self-interrogate your present forms of kinship and make shared agreements to transform and evolve in reimagining your process/ paradigms and their impact (e.g., what it takes to establish roots in the soil, water, air, cypher, cosmos). We invite viewers to:

Reconsider our relationship to the life-supporting ecosystems we have been gifted
Develop new paradigms rooted in the ancient wisdom of Indigenous and Earth-based practices
Find tendrils of our own stories in the convergence of shared experiences
Fall in love with soil – Sankofa

The exhibition was co-organized by Dr. Akilah Martin of AM Root Builders, Inc. and Aaron Reser of Green Lands Blue Waters, rooted in Dr. Akilah’s work with Baba Orrin Williams through the Center for Humans and Nature.
https://humansandnature.org/what-can-...
Sister events were held at the Center for Humans and Nature and the North American Agroforestry Conference.

Other links:
https://www.amrootbuilders.com/
https://greenlandsbluewaters.org/
https://www.rootswateringhole.org/
https://humansandnature.org/
https://www.rerootingkinship.org/

Utmost gratitude for those who were and continue to be instrumental in re-rooting kinship via soil dimensions.

Re-Rooting Kinship creators:
Dr. Akilah Martin, [email protected]
Baba Orrin Williams, [email protected]
Aaron Reser, [email protected]

2025 Exhibition contributors:
Dr. Erika Allen, Hannah Bennett, Dr. Liz Carlisle, Nateo Carreño, Dr. Claudia J. Ford, Malika Jackson, Alene Johnson, Sam Koentopp, Tiffany LaShae, Guolong Liang, Erin Meier, Dr. Huu Nguyen, Dr. David N. Pellow, Leah Penniman, Lindsay Rebhan, Evelyn Reilly, Paula Westmoreland - and thanks to many volunteers!

Video by Freestone Media
https://www.freestone.media/

The GLBW 2025 Conference and this video were supported, in part, by AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program conference grant no. 2025-67019-44454 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and a grant from Builders Initiative.