Finca Luna Búho

Finca Luna Búho We are located on unceded Mohican land in the so-called northern Berkshires of western Massachusetts. We center community care as collective liberation.

Finca Luna Búho is a collaborative carespace, majority BIPOC-led, centering and holding the voices and decision making of those living in marginalization and at the intersections of these lived experiences. In 2007, we began this land collective to create a rural place of refuge, knowledge sharing and intimacy-with-land that centers BIPOC, immigrant, q***r, poor, adoptee and disabled communities.

We offer space for gatherings, classes, justice organizing, healing, farming and mutual/intimate land and nature connection. Finca Luna Búho is a place where people can seek safety and inspiration, creatively grow and collaborate for community restoration and flourishing. We tend to and are tended by the land. We are unapologetically abolitionist, anti-border, anti-imperialist and anti-military. We dream beyond duality and binaries. Our work is centered around providing both the services and the physical space to support marginalized communities in the northern Berkshires. As Indigenous people who have been removed from their land and culture, as Indigenous immigrants that have come to the US from places deeply affected by US imperialism, as transracial adoptees and other lived experiences that have separated us from land and nature, access isn’t the only need. There is a fundamental need to feel at ease, mend, heal, share; to create a sense of home in a manner that is deeply rooted within the community, while holding space for the beauty and tending of our own cultures and experiences. Within the northern Berkshires, there are no other land-based projects that center BIPOC, q***r, poor, immigrant and disabled people. Finca Luna Búho serves as a vital carespace and community center graced by gardens, fields, forest, a river, and streams. We share this land with dear more-than-human beings with whom we are honored to grow in deep relationship over time. Finca Luna Búho is a place where people--especially youth--can create and attend community programs free of charge, which is essential to creation and growth for marginalized communities. This project provides physical space for a poor community to make social connections, learn, unlearn, grow, connect, organize, and hold joy and being. As such, it is a space deeply rooted in the ideas of land justice and aboltion, which is woven into every aspect of the work—from antiracism organizing groups, social justice workshops, and community art, to food growing, medicine making, nature immersion, and place-based learning. We work in a way that integrates individuals and communities’ experiences and perspectives, centering those impacted by oppression, who can share from a place that will strengthen our community care and collective liberation.

07/26/2022
06/15/2021

Dear community, We are starting our Seeding Solidarity food distribution for the season and are looking for coolers so that the yummy veggies from Woven Roots stay fresh fresh fresh!

Dear community, if you can please share and donate to care for this beloved being. Bea is radiance and often as healers ...
04/29/2021

Dear community, if you can please share and donate to care for this beloved being. Bea is radiance and often as healers do, they love on so many, create vital and magical space, and inspire on the daily. So let us return that love and support them during this time.

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Beloved Community, At the start of March while visiting family in Atlanta… Bea Anderson needs your support for Lend a Hand to B.'s Higher Healing Journey

03/17/2021

Yesterday's map of people killed by police in the US, showing the violence concentrated in BIPOC neighborhoods, calls to mind the Guatemalan genocide in which thousands of Indigenous Maya civilians were executed by the US-backed government. There were 626 massacres between 1975 and 1986.

Most massacres were concentrated in Indigenous-majority areas. The massacres in Guatemala weren't random events. They took place in very specific cultural landscapes.

Maps are critical tools that can help deconstruct violent events by providing a mental image of a location and event in the onlookers mind. They are memorials for victims and their families, and they provide evidence to bring about peace and justice.

03/14/2021

This period of history was marked by sn*******ng displacement and blurring of tribal identities; Natives taking in refugees from other tribes, before becoming refugees themselves; Lenape joining the Mohican, Mohican-Lenape joining the Oneida, then on to Myaamia territory, and finally landing in Menominee land.

It became apparent after the Revolutionary War, with their numbers greatly reduced and settlers using unscrupulous means to gain title to the land, that the Stockbridge Mohican people were not welcome in their own village any longer. The Oneida offered them a portion of their rich farmland and forest. The Stockbridge Mohican accepted the invitation and moved to New Stockbridge, near Oneida Lake, in the mid-1780s. Again they cleared forests and built farms. A school, church, and sawmill were built. But profiteering land companies proposed that New York State remove all Indigenous people from within its borders. The pressure for removal was great. John Sergeant recorded in his journal of August 1818, "About one-third of my church and one-fourth of the tribe (70 souls) started from this place for "White River." Their leader, John Metoxen, led the group to the White River area in what is now Indiana to settle among their relatives, the Myaamia and Lenape. When they reached their destination, after about a year, they found that the Lenape had already been coerced into selling their land.

Meanwhile, missionaries, agents from the State of New York and commissioners from the War Department were negotiating with the Menominee and Ho-Chunk for a large tract of land on which to relocate the New York Natives in what is now Wisconsin. A treaty was negotiated in 1822. The Stockbridge Mohicans were on the move again. The group that had traveled to Indiana with John Metoxen were the first to arrive. For the next several years, those who had remained in New York followed, traveling by foot, wagon or sometimes steamship on the Great Lakes.

More Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican history: mohican.com/our-history

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12/06/2020

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Finca Luna Búho is a collaborative land project, majority BIPOC-led, centering and holding the voices and decision making of those living in marginalization and at the intersections of these lived experiences. We are on unceded Mohican land in the so called northern Berkshires. In 2007 we began thi...

Dear beings, Please consider donating before the year ends. We are looking forward to many wonderful classes this season...
12/29/2019

Dear beings, Please consider donating before the year ends. We are looking forward to many wonderful classes this season, but we need to make sure we can pay our educators and improve the infrastructure of the space. Point blank, we NEED a functioning toilet y'all! *If you are unable to donate, please share, connect us with people who can provide funds or volunteer your skills (building, grant writing, etc.)

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Atalanta Sungurov Finca Luna Búho Funding 2019-20 We are fundraising for our fall '19 - summer '20 programs which will allow us to support our community more

Dear friends, We are working hard on a shoestring budget to provide much needed support & services to our community. Ple...
12/03/2019

Dear friends, We are working hard on a shoestring budget to provide much needed support & services to our community. Please donate if you are able to, and SHARE! As our programs are free, the funds go to paying BIPOC educators. And if you've got the connects with money abundance, let it rain.

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Atalanta Sungurov Finca Luna Búho Funding 2019-20 We are fundraising for our fall '19 - summer '20 programs which will allow us to support our community more

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Finca Luna Búho is a collective land project that was started in 2007 with the hopes of creating a rural place of refuge, education & intimacy with land centering (im)migrant, q***r, BIPOC, poor and communities that very often don’t have access to land and wild spaces.