Root to Bloom

children’s programming with The Root Nymph

When children root in a sense of belonging with the land/earth, they bloom with compassion, resourcefulness, and resilience. 

My mission is to foster children’s innate love of the land and sense of interconnectedness with the web of life.

I am passionate about creating opportunities & holding space for children to tend to their relationship with land in a way that does not instill a hierarchical human/nature separation & dichotomy, but that rather fosters reciprocity.

I believe that a relationship grounded in reciprocity and reverence, rather than human supremacy - cultivates a sense of interconnectedness & belonging that will foster children’s emotional wellbeing, resilience, and responsibility to the earth.

… It’s less about teaching them that “nature” is somewhere outside of ourselves — somewhere we go to to escape — and more about fostering that innate knowing that we are nature, and we are always in relationship with the earth by nature of being human. This framing — rooted in Indigenous worldviews — allows children to cultivate a sense of foundational groundedness that will ultimately serve them, their communities, and the earth.

2024 Root to Bloom summer camp

Opportunities for children & families

Homeschool programs

I partner with homeschooling families to create opportunities for earth-based experiences & learning.

winter homeschool meetup, 2023

Summer camps

I partner with local organizations (ie farms, town recreational departments) to offer earth-based summer programming for children.

Root to Bloom summer camp, 2024

Community collaborations

I collaborate with other aligned organizations to co-create unique earth-based children’s programming.

Kid permaculture workshop with South Shore Permaculture, 2024

With children, I weave together:

  •  Nature-based expressive arts & play 

  • Gardening & growing skills

  • Relational skill-building 

  • History of place, grounded in Wampanoag perspectives

  • Mindful movement

Julia’s background

-Mother

-B.A. in Environmental Studies from Colorado College

-former mentee to Doctora Rocio Rosales Meza, a medicine woman in the Q’ero Inca lineage guiding decolonial healers and leaders for work aligned with collective liberation

-Graduate of ‘Decolonial Shadow work’ & ‘A New Paradigm of Care: Decolonizing our Practice for Collective Liberation’ with Dra. Rocio Rosales Meza

-Student of Gail Faith Edwards in Benedicaria, the tradition of Southern Italian Folk Medicine

-Student of Marybeth Bonfiglio, Sicilian-American ancestralist & writer

-200 hour yoga teacher training from Open Doors Yoga Studios

- Certified in Permaculture Design from South Shore Permaculture

-Training from Native Movement: Untangling Colonialism, Building a Decolonizing Framework

-Cyclically attuned folk Herbalism education from Muddy River Herbals

- 3 years providing communications, research, & fundraising support to various Environmental NGO’s, Indigenous-led organizations, & postcolonial / anarchist scholars

- decolonial political education from Anjali Lynn Nath of Liberation Spring