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It’s been one year since our launch of Huertos Familiares and over the course of that time we have seeded and supported several gardens in San Antonio, Austin, Cedar Park, Houston, Tucson, Chicago, and Dallas. We have shared lessons, photos, and fruits from our gardens. We’ve deepened our commitments to each other, to the land, to gathering in community. In the Spring of 2025, we hosted our first Harvest Sobremesa with everyone that participated in the pilot launch of the pro

The Fall Equinox once again finds us with our hands in the soil, harvesting the last of the summer crops, prepping the soil for the Fall and Winter gardens, reflecting on all that the land has gifted us. It finds us pulling overgrown weeds from a garden which was left largely untended during the long summer months. One bed in particular required a tremendous amount of attention and care. The vines, which had previously offered more beans than we could eat or share, were curle

Terra Advocati is proud to announce the award of a grant from the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation to support the Huertos Familiares project at Galeria E.V.A. This funding will be leveraged alongside the resources provided by the San Antonio Office of Sustainability, amplifying the impact of this unique initiative that combines art, culture, and regenerative agriculture on the Southside of San Antonio. Huertos Familiares is not only an urban market garden; it’s a living a

On March 18, 2023 we breathed in a new Spring. We joined the San Anto: Un Taller for Dreaming cohort as they offered seven ways to acknowledge, give thanks to the Land, before we shared a meal and conversation together. We were invited to spend the first 45 minutes of our evening, in a silent walking meditation with Confluence Park, to listen to the Birds, the River, the Water running, the sound of our own Breath and Heart. We were invited to reflect on what we needed to let

Terra Advocati congratulates board member Virginia Grise on winning the 2022 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre! The award honors risk-taking artists “ who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.” Virginia Grise was selected “for her urgent and probing drama, fluid poetic forms and mammoth undertakings; for her generous, spirit-fueled practice; and, as a cause and creature of community, for converting craft to kinship, wish to

A year ago we commemorated the Spring Equinox in the patio of our dear friend, Veronica Castillo, with the simple goal of sharing a meal. We cooked our food in an earthen pit in the ground and carefully watched over it for over 12 hours as we talked, and dreamed, and imagined another way of being in the world. In the throes of the pandemic, we wanted to be intentional with our lives, so we held vigil as Winter became Spring. This year, we commemorated the Spring Equinox by jo

The following is part of the Talleres for Dreaming Series, which is a collaboration with a todo dar productions and Galeria E.V.A. The letter was sent to folks inviting them to mark the 2021 Fall Equinox. I sent you something in the mail. I hope you receive it before Wednesday.. I hope it did not break in transit. When I was a kid, an undergrad at UT, I spent many hours at a dingy cafe called Les Amis. I loved that place because it had a wood burning stove but I mostly loved

The Spring Equinox event kicked off the Talleres for Dreaming Series, which is an ongoing collaboration with a todo dar productions and Galeria E.V.A. The letter below, written by Virginia Grise from a todo dar productions, invites friends, family, and collaborators across mountains, deserts, and oceans to join us on our journey. When I was in graduate school, worried about how I was going to make a living as a theatre artist, I had a mentor say to me, “It’s simple. Just ask