Welcome to Rose Island Farm
We are a BIPOC centered, Indigenous-led teaching and sharing farm. Our offerings include handcrafted, seasonal products and skill share workshops to reconnect people to the land.
Our Stewardship
Volunteer support is needed to tend our Milpa or Three Sisters Garden this season. We would like to prioritize this particular opportunity to folks for whom this is part of their ancestral plant lineage.
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Milpa
This is an opportunity to learn about rabbit care for an entire cycle. Responsibilities include harvesting, mulching, and keeping the rabbits clear in addition to processing at the end of their cycle.
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Rabbitry
Our hands-on workshops help folks (re)emeber their ancestral ways. These skills shares arose organically as a community response in loving reciprocity with the plants, the animals, and the land.
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Traditional Skill Shares
Hear our story
Founded in 2020, Rose Island Farm is located on Puyallup tribal territory. We are a farm for sharing and collective community (re)membering of Indigenous foods and healing ways. We center QT/BIPOC relatives, Indigenous people from all of Turtle Island, and people of the global majority. We are in alignment with what our Ancestral wisdom and the land already tell us—food, medicine, and healing should be sustainable, regenerative, bioregional, community-building, decolonizing and liberating.
Our farm is also home to an herbal apothecary and we mutually tend one acre of land, home to food and medicine gardens, and many precious relatives. Our offerings include handcrafted, seasonal products, and traditional skill shares to (re)connect people to the land.
We lovingly grow and care for herbs, foods, and create herbal supports for relatives at the Tahoma Indian Center and local BIPOC relatives. Melissa hosts community classes at the farm and provides safe space for Black and Indigenous community and families.
Our farm is named after the village that Melissa comes from in northern BC, Lax kw’alaams or “Island of Wild Roses.” Our farm logo was designed by Nuxalk artist Danika Saunders.
Herbal consultations are private wellness consultations that Melissa offers in support of health and healing. Sessions are collaborative and educational—together we will research your needs and consider herbs, foods, cultural practices and lifestyle changes to create sustainable healing pathways. Physical, Mental, and Spiritual healing is intentional, slow and takes time, commitment, love and self-determination.
Herbal/Lifestyle Coaching (can be offered fully virtual or in person)
Herbal Consultations
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The initial intake process is comprehensive and can take several hours depending on individualized needs and history, please prepare accordingly.
Herbal preparations will be custom blended based on the tailored needs of each person, the season, and the region of Turtle Island that one’s people come from.
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Sliding scale pricing- $150 - $85 per hour on a case-by-case basis. Payments can be made on Apple Pay, Venmo, PayPal or by Square.
