Black to the Land Immersion with Joshua Kwaku Asiedu & Sankofa Roots

Join us for a three-day, two-night immersive ancetsral skills workshop, focused on natural building and ancestral food processing, and basic survival skills hosted by Sankofa Roots in collaboration with special guest trainer Joshua Kwaku Asiedu. Held on the sacred grounds of Black to the Land—a Black-led reparative land project in Boonville, CA—this gathering is an invitation to reconnect with the Earth, honor ancestral knowledge, and build community through skillshares, craft, food, and ceremony.

Over the course of the weekend, we’ll root ourselves in the rhythms of the land: building a communal cob oven with natural materials, hand-shaping pottery, and preparing foods like peanut butter and fruit jams and leathers using traditional, non-electric methods passed down through generations. We’ll also learn essential land-based skills, including natural shelter building, fire tending, and introductory wilderness first aid—all taught through the lens of cultural memory and respect for the elements.

This experience isn’t just a campout—it’s a return to our roots. A remembering. Whether you’re stepping into land-based practices for the first time or deepening an existing connection, you’ll leave with clay under your nails, fire in your hands, nourishment in your belly, and wisdom in your heart.

Come build, create, harvest, and rest with us—in community, in rhythm, in reverence.

Location:

This campout will be hosted at Black to the Land—a Black-led reparative land project rooted in reconnection, community-building, and developing Black land stewardship. Black to the Land is located in Booneville, CA, nestled among majestic redwoods, with a creek running through the valley and hiking trails lined with ancient oaks and madrone trees. It is a place of restoration, ceremony, and return.

Sliding scale pricing available:

• $333 - BYO camping equipment;
• $444 - Tent camping provided for 2 nights;
• $555 - Shared cob-home with your own bedroom

Included:

• Breakfast & dinner (with care and intention), BYO lunch;
• Access to outdoor showers & compost toilets;
• Camping gear available upon request

Guest Trainer:

We are honored to welcome Joshua Kwaku Asiedu—joining us from the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa—for this rare and powerful offering.

A master land steward, teacher, and visionary, Joshua (@livetolearn_learntolive) has spent the past decade traveling across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, learning sustainable, ancestrally rooted practices from rural and Indigenous communities around the world. His life's work is a return to ancestral knowledge, shaped by lived experience and grounded in deep respect for the Earth.

After years of immersion, Joshua returned to his grandfather’s land in Ghana, where he transformed overgrown bush into a thriving eco-village. Today, that land includes a flourishing garden, fruit trees, compost toilets, a hand-dug well, outdoor showers, a communal kitchen, a soaking tub, and a beautiful hand-built home—all constructed by Joshua himself with natural materials and traditional techniques.

For the past five years, Joshua has hosted retreats and learning journeys at his eco-village, sharing the secrets of ancestral living with people from across the globe.

This is a rare and special opportunity to learn directly from Joshua right here in California—no passport, no plane ticket, just grounded, embodied wisdom passed hand to hand. Don’t miss the chance to build, grow, and remember with one of the most inspiring earthworkers of our time.

About us:

Sankofa Roots is a land-based learning and healing organization that connects Black, Indigenous and Queer communities with outdoor experiences that build critical skills for outdoor preparedness and climate resilience, while healing our relationship to land and lineage.

We community resilience through offering hands-on earth skills and emergency preparedness training, while invoking ancestral wisdoms rooted in our lineages to guide our learning, and cultivating sustainable, regenerative land-based practices.

NOTE: This offering is curated specifically for people who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or Queer. For us, it's critical to create safe learning and healing spaces for our people, where we can be alongside others who share intersecting identities and stories of resilience and survival.

Email jamani@sankofaroots.org for more info.