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August 7, 2026: RRR Closing, Group Photo with Family and Friends There's good medicine in the people of this land. Old medicine. Like seeds that have gone dormant after generations of fire suppression, the seed isn't dead. It's sitting beneath the surface, patiently waiting to be awoken. Then good fire moves through, the conditions change, and suddenly life that hasn't been seen in years starts coming back. Restoring Right Relations (RRR), Redbud's Native leadership developm

Photo: Together Bay Area Spring Conference, May 13, 2026 at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA I have learned a great deal from making cordage. Cordage by itself is a braid of string, but when you wrap it around stalks of tule, it can make a boat. When you tie cordage around sticks of willow, it can make a house. Cordage, when applied, can be a useful vehicle of change and transformation. Cordage can also teach you how to collectively build power. As a program mana

Picture: One of the 200-year old Oak Trees at Dos Rios State Park in Modesto, CA (March 2025). There is something deeply powerful standing underneath a thriving 200-year old oak tree nestled in the heart of California’s Central Valley - surrounded by vast agricultural lands that dominate most of the region. This oak tree has seen dramatic changes in the surrounding landscape of what is now known as Dos Rios State Park in Modesto, CA. As our Restoring Right Relations program