Remagination Farm Relaunches With Community-Supported ‘Stalkholders’ Program
Flagship farm events include Memorial Day weekend Hmong Work Party and Labor Day weekend film festival with People’s Kitchen Collective
Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, Joshua Vang, and their son Zee at Remagination Farm (photo from remaginationfarm.org)
Unceded Eastern Pomo and Lake Miwok Territory/Lake County, CA - April 30, 2025 – For its third planting season, Remagination Farm will relaunch a robust, community-supported agriculture (CSA) membership model which includes fresh, seasonal food boxes, free tickets to two major events and other perks. These exclusive events include a Memorial Weekend planting season work party, and a Labor Day weekend harvest and film festival.
After two years of learning and experimenting with various farming techniques and community-based programming, farm founders Dr. Robyn Rodriguez and Joshua Vang are redefining ‘generational wealth’ through their revamped membership program.
“‘Generational wealth’ is something many folks are trying to build for their families, through the acquisition of property, for example, among other kinds of investments. Instead, we’re inviting investment in ‘generational abundance’ as a way to challenge the settler-colonial logics of property ownership.”
Dr. Robyn Rodriguez tending to the land at Remagination Farm (photo from remaginationfarm.org)
Planting Seeds for a Bigger Vision
Remagination Farm does more than produce food, it is a learning center as well as a healing and arts space. Through its programming, Remagination Farm shares farming knowledge with BIPOC community members to support their ability to grow food autonomously and thus advances the movement toward food sovereignty. Its programming also facilitates BIPOC community members’ renewed relationship with the land to support their engagement in the ecological and climate justice movement.
Given today’s political climate and the on-going climate crisis, the Remagination Farm invites those interested in divesting from systems of exploitation and extraction to invest in the work they are doing in creating more just and autonomous institutions that radically reimagine how people live.
Farm Membership: Cultivating ‘Stalkholders’ for Food Sovereignty and Land Stewardship
The Remagination Farm membership program is for households, non-profits and community-based organizations who want to invest in sourcing food that has been grown in ecologically regenerative ways and that center indigenous land knowledge. Since Remagination Farm is also a learning center, healing and arts space, perks of subscription membership also include exclusive access to in-person farm workshops and events, virtual learning opportunities as well as sustainably-produced merchandise, arts and crafts from BIPOC makers.
The Remagination subscription model includes two main tiers: “stalkholders” and “land tenders.”. As a ‘Stalkholder,’ household members receive boxes of fresh seasonal produce and/or meat products, recipes, free and discounted tickets to Remagination Farm events, discounts on ‘Sari Sari’ store items, and voting rights at ‘stalkholders’ meetings. In addition to these perks, non-profit and community-based organizations, members of or constituents served by these organizations receive a discounted stalkholder household membership, and an opportunity to hold a program at the farm for free. “Land tenders” get to grow and harvest what they like and can tend to their plots on specified days. The Remagination Farm team will tend to the land in the interim period. Flexible payment options and/or work-trade and energetic exchanges are also possible. More information on the subscription model can be found at remaginationfarm.org/membership.
“By investing in Remagination Farm as a ‘stalkholder,’ your subscription supports our work in regenerating the soil and watershed where the farm is located, sustaining the health and life of future generations of people and other non-human life forms. It also supports our work in sharing the intergenerational land knowledge required to ensure that our community and our collective descendants can engage in regenerative practices in the places where they live.”
Jamie Cardenas of Magpie Alchemy at Remagination Farm collaborative event (photo from remaginationfarm.com)
Flagship Farm Event: Memorial Day Weekend “Lub caij cog qoob loo” (“Planting Season” in Hmong) Work Party
Centering Hmong arts and culture during this event, attendees will learn about the ritual of "land calling" or "crop calling," in which Hmong people call forth their ancestors as well as the ancestors and spirits of the land for a bountiful harvest; they will also be able to participate in a hands-on workshop by Pachia Lucy Vang, on paj ntaub (Hmong embroidery and appliqué). Other performers and presenters are being confirmed.
Attendees are invited to participate in skillsharing and learning opportunities for farm-related tasks — including setting up irrigation and drip systems; constructing trellises; making, repairing, sanding, and painting fences & furniture; using power-tools; and planting — over the course of the weekend. A limited number of campsites will be available, for more details and to RSVP for Lub caij cog qoob loo visit here.
Flagship Farm Event: Labor Day Weekend “Anihan” (“Harvest” in Filipino) and Film Festival
Anihan honors the harvest season through a celebration and film festival. The film festival will include a short film produced by Remagination Farm, and the film “EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality” by People’s Kitchen Collective. With more films and details to be announced.
“EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality is a project that was inspired by the truth that if you build relationships with reciprocity and solidarity in your hearts, then together we can create the deep change required for collective liberation. People’s Kitchen Collective travelled hundreds of miles to learn from organizations across California doing the work of radical hospitality. The screenings of our documentary allow us to continue to build those relationships. Remagination Farm is a powerful example of how a land project stewarded by a family committed to ancestral values of regeneration and reimagination can be revolutionary. Hosting this screening together is an invitation for our communities to join us in living the radical hospitality that will build a better world.”
Visit remaginationfarm.org to stay up-to-date on Remagination Farm’s membership program, volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, and events.
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About the Remagination Farm — Principles of sustainability and regeneration guide the Remagination Farm, founded by Dr. Robyn Rodriguez and her husband, second-generation Hmong refugee and nature expert Joshua Vang. The farm implements intergenerational farming techniques that draw on the owners’ Hmong and Philippine ancestry, along with indigenous land knowledge at the core of agroecology. The Remagination Farm, spanning 8 acres of land, is located in Lake County and is the site for in-person learning opportunities offered by the School for Liberating Education, a service of the Remagination Lab.
About Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez — Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is a professor emeritus of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. Not only is she a widely published researcher and a highly sought after speaker, she is a long-time community organizer. The loss of her 22-year old son Amado Khaya while he was working to serve indigenous communities in the Philippines, prompted Dr. Rodriguez to make the bold choice of realigning her life’s work of nearly 2 decades and liberating it from the confines of academia through the services she offers in the Remagination Lab. Moreover, she and her husband decided to carry on Amado Khaya’s commitment to indigenous rights and climate justice by taking on the role as land stewards, along with their younger son, at Remagination Farm.