Our Plan

 

As part of our mission to educate, inspire, and transform peoples’ relationships with the natural world, NRFF is currently working to steward land for our public Hakihakàn (Lenape for garden or farm), where native plants will flourish. 

At this site, native plants will be identified in Indigenous languages, the relationships between Indigenous people and those plants will be shared, and Indigenous land stewardship practices will be a key focus. 

A rendering of NRFF’s future Hakihakàn

 

Over the next three years, NRFF is committed to:

  • Acquiring and stewarding land in Lower Delaware

  • Establishing a physical presence on that land

  • Cultivating a Hakihakàn

  • Connecting people to the Hakihakàn and nurturing reciprocal relationships between plants and people

  • Growing native and culturally significant plants

  • Utilizing and sharing land management practices rooted in traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge