Each day we walk on and over a powerful sacred gift thousands of years in the making: Soil. This life-giving and life-supporting substance is the largest terrestrial resource formed via a nexus of transference and exchange between mineral matter and organic matter with the participation of fauna, flora, microorganisms, fungi, water, fire, gas, and air. Soil as our intercessor continuously defines the story of resilience and the formation of resilient relationships. As beings and communities of this Earth, our health and wellbeing is invested in the Earth through the very soils underneath us. We must realize that healthy soil is not a given. Now, as ever before, we can achieve greater wellbeing by noticing and partnering with the soils where we live. Join us for a journey to the foundation of kinship.
Forty miles north of Chicago, the Center is home to breathtakingly beautiful prairie, savanna, wetland, woodland, and ravine in the homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Potawatomi, Ojibwa, and Ottawa.
Center for Humans & Nature 17660 West Casey Road Libertyville, Illinois 60048