Black2Nature started with one woman's need to be free of the rat race, that woman being me, Zen (or by birth, Pennie). I was raised "offgrid". Though at the time there wasn't really a name for it, we were simply "the weird family in the woods"; for those that knew us anyway. I love that that is my (her)story. I give thanks for the seeds that were planted, but I also had a journey to journey, so I chose corporate "world" (and many other "worlds" prior to) until eventually, I got tired of 9-5'ing life to pay for a life that wasn't a life at all; and I decided to call it quits, quite literally. And after 20 plus years I went back to the land that once sustained me. (Truth is, I hadn't been back as a result of traumas that took some time to heal- a story I'm sure many can relate to and a story for another site.)
My goal at the time, being only to see if I could make it "off-grid", no job, and with children for at least 6 months. That 6 months turned into a full year, a farm to table delivery service business, a whole lot of healing, growth, and clarity of self and a deep deep desire to want to "free my people", to want to bring my people back to a space of a reciprocal relationship with the land.
and Bing Bang BOOM! Black2Nature was born!