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Hi, I'm Denae!
I live in Lansing, Michigan (zone 5b) where it gets quite cold. I love defying the elements and growing through the winter anyway. I spent 11 years as an organic vegetable farmer growing food for sale. For nine of those years I was lucky to work with beginning farmers, assisting them with farm planning and acquiring skills they need to grow successfully. My partner and I now grow food primarily for and with our family and neighbors. I enjoy learning about self-sufficiency, reading dystopian sci-fi, all things queer, and hanging with our sweet pitbull, Thollee.
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The land I occupy
The property where I homestead occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg–Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odaawa, and Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi) peoples. My home and “owned” property reside on Land taken through the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, I affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold myself accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples. Learn more about this: https://usdac.us/nativeland