Semilla is a Latine-led teaching farm in Craryville, NY, on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people.

We grow food, plant medicine, and skills across the land we steward. Through our homeschool co-op, learners engage in farming, culture, and justice alongside their families. Our purpose is simple: make farming a path to liberation for land stewards, youth, and the communities we serve.

This project is built on a simple premise: that lasting community requires more than good intentions. It requires land, infrastructure, knowledge systems, and spaces designed with care.

Values

Reciprocity. Not extraction, but exchange. The land gives, we give back, the cycle continues.

Deliberate action. We pause before we move. Every choice either strengthens or weakens the communities and ecosystems around us.

Liberation as practice. Growing food and medicine is a sovereign act, tied to our dignity and rooted in centuries of resistance.

Farming is a path. Not a metaphor. We aren't talking about freedom, we are growing the systems that sustain it.

Community. Built alongside, not for. We show up as neighbors, not saviors.

Joy. Hard work is real. So are the meals shared at the end of a long row. Joy is not a reward — it's the practice itself.