Phase 2 Participating Organizations

Local community members from across the Gulf Coast and Appalachia gathered for nine days of building, storytelling, and skill-sharing. Workshops included cob construction, oyster lime experimentation, plant identification, and ecstatic dance, with evening meals and ceremonies shared around the fire.

Participating Organizations included:

• Maury Johnson of the Ponca Tribe, bringing 137-year-old Seeds of Resistance corn

• Charlsie Shaver of Chickadee Natives, leading plant identification walks

• Cassidy Creek, guiding oyster shell lime experimentation

• Climate Culture New Orleans

• Pipeline Safety Trust

• Center for Oil and Gas Organizing

• Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe

• Moon Glow Hollow

With Support from:

• The New York Foundation for the Arts

• Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant

• Mountain Watershed Association

• Break Free From Plastic

• Toxic-Free Future

• People Over Petro Coalition

• FracTracker Alliance

• Glass Half Full (cobalt blue sand)

• Hey! Coffee Co. (burlap sacks)

• Doctor Bronner's (soaps)

• COGO's & The FACTS (oyster shells)