Natural Building & Food Processing Campout with Sankofa Roots

Join us for a three-day, two-night immersive workshop in Natural Building and Ancestral Food Processing, hosted by Sankofa Roots in collaboration with special guest trainer Joshua Kwaku Asiedu. Set on the sacred land 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 practices, and build community through craft, food, and ceremony.

Throughout the weekend, we’ll root ourselves in the rhythms of the land, working with natural materials to build a communal cob oven, practice hand-building pottery, and prepare foods like peanut butter and mango jam using traditional, non-electric methods passed down through generations. We’ll explore techniques that honor the land and our people, with an emphasis on slowing down, being in relationship with place, and working with what the Earth offers.

This isn’t just a typical campout—it’s a journey back to our roots. Whether you’re new to land-based practices or deepening your connection, you’ll leave with clay under your nails, warmth in your heart and belly, and something handmade in your hands. Come build, create, harvest, and rest in community.

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.