Sowing Seeds began as a vision in 2020 — an inquiry into the roots of the climate crisis and the relational disconnection created by modern capitalist culture.

 

The deeper Sydney reflected, the clearer it became: humanity is being systematically disconnected from direct relationship with the living world. As access to land, traditional ecological knowledge, and communal interdependence diminished, so too did humanity’s capacity to be in harmonious relationship with the living world that remains.

 

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Over the next three years, Sydney immersed herself in the study and practice of herbalism, foraging, regenerative agriculture, and ecological relationship, eventually receiving her Permaculture Design Certificate. In 2022, she was a part of the EDGE Sheridan Social Impact Catalyst Program for youth changemaker entrepreneurs with creative solutions to the climate crisis to build the foundation for the project.  By 2023, she was preparing to establish the first Sowing Seeds Garden in Brooklyn, NY, and later received grant funding to support the project.

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Yet that same year marked the beginning of a much deeper initiation.

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Through a series of profound personal experiences and spiritual reckonings, Sydney was called inward into a process of healing, remembrance, and transformation that would fundamentally reshape her understanding of liberation and cultural change - now expressed through Jivanmukta Heling.

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At the time, she did not fully understand why her guidance was leading her away from launching the garden immediately. But the path became clear: rather than building a single garden space, she was being called to support the circulation of seeds themselves.

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In collaboration with Eni Asebiomo and True Love Seeds, Sydney launched a seed-saving and sharing initiative that designed and distributed culturally relevant heirloom seeds in a food forest design to more than 50 community gardens free of cost across the United States.

 

Since completing the project in 2024, the vision of Sowing Seeds has continued to evolve.

 

Through her ongoing work in relational healing, spirituality, ecological practice, and liberation, Sydney has gained deeper philosophical clarity, practical experience, and community insight into what this project is truly meant to become.

 

She is currently in the visionary and foundational stages of bringing this next evolution of Sowing Seeds into being — ensuring the values of this project are expressed in every detail, finding aligned collaborators and funding,  and integrating her learnings into the new expression of Sowing Seeds.

 

Her main inquiry is: How can we help communities around the world build regenerative and climate-resilient infrastructure that repairs relational health and builds community resilience/sovereignty through the climate crisis?

 

If you feel resonance with this inquiry and would like to explore collaboration, partnership, or funding support, please reach out below.