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 and First Foods.
Rose Island Farm sits on the homelands of the Puyallup Nation who continue to be the protectors and original stewards of this land. Their ancestors, along with the ancestors of all of the Coastal Salish Peoples, have for millennia tended all the amazing diverse plant relatives found in these Salish landscapes.
Their stewardship practices inform and give us guidance as we raise our family and tend the soil in these Puyallup homelands. I recognize that we as a Tsimshian First Nation and Nuxalk family are guests on this territory and we don’t take this privilege for granted. As guests, we know it is our responsibility to tend these lands in a good way following the wisdom and leadership of the Puyallup Nation and for future generations. We hold our hands up with gratitude to be held so lovingly on Puyallup lands.
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.
Skill Shares at the Farm
DM on Instagram, or text (253) 304-2507 to RSVP for a 2025 SkillShare