Amma’s Forest Gardens is a budding permaculture nursery located in Haudenosaunee territory, with plant distributions in Rochester, NY and Madison County, NY. Our offering includes various native, food-bearing, and medicinal plants.
“Amma” is the Urdu/Hindi word for “mom.” We owe a great debt of gratitude to our mothers who continue to support and nourish us.
We are replanting food and medicine for all future people. We prioritize plants native to the Eastern Woodlands of Turtle Island (North America) and we also grow some hybrid and introduced plants.
If our pricing is a barrier for you, please email us. We’ll work out alternatives with people on a case by case basis. We want to generate accessible community spaces for growing food and restoring local ecologies.
Our practices:
we prioritize native plants
grow from true seed when possible
prioritize food and medicine plants
we grow genetically diverse seeds
value locally foraged seeds
compensate foragers
we don’t apply synthetic fertilizers
don’t apply synthetic herbicides
don’t plant invasive plants
Native plants have complex, longstanding relationships with other living beings on this land. Some species can only rely on native plantings to meet certain needs.
We Create More Nurseries
these seeds carry the labor of countless ancestors,
carefully choosing which seeds to plant,
each seed we plant becomes a source for more seeds,
every garden is a potential nursery,
we are the seeds that our ancestors have planted,
may our children receive the love we infuse into these gardens
Our planet’s climate and ecological systems are changing rapidly. Small growers around the world are facing many threats due to climate change. These precious plant relatives offer us a map to reproducing alternative worlds, worlds of abundance, reciprocity, care, deep relationship with all of creation. For us, that means all people are fed and we survive these challenges together.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to our Onkwehonwe relatives (People of the Forever Ways, also known as Indigenous Peoples), who continue to care for these lands. We will always credit our teachers for enabling us to walk this path, this nursery would not be possible without you.
If you are Indigenous/of African descent and would like any seeds, please reach out to us. We’d love to connect with you.
We acknowledge and give thanks to the seeds who nourish us as love letters from countless ancestors who walk the forever ways. We strive to be good ancestors who write many love letters to those yet to come with our plantings. We give our singing praise and deep thanks to The Nourisher of all of creation for this beautiful gift of life and for the continued opportunity to walk alongside so many incredible people. Alhamdulillah!
Lots of Love,
Amma’s Forest Gardens
