Mixed Faces Wild Spaces

Mixed Faces Wild Spaces is a community based outdoor organization for people whose lives are shaped by the compounding pressures of systems of domination—racism, ableism, classism, transphobia, xenophobia, and more.We offer liberatory outdoor programs grounded in healing, connection, and nature-based belonging.Sustained by sliding-scale events and services including guided wilderness and nature-based experiences, speaking engagements, consulting and coaching support, stewardship and ecological guidance, and justice advocacy and barrier reduction — MFWS empowers community members to reclaim belonging and connection with themselves, each other, and all of nature.All of this work moves toward a larger vision: a land based sanctuary where people and planet are free to be whole.

Our name was shaped in part by our engagement with Carolyn Finney’s work, including Black Faces, White Spaces, through both her writing and speaking.We honor this influence as part of our commitment to transparency and lineage. Learn more or purchase the book here from her website.

For the Dreamers, the Displaced, and the Determined

You belong here. In your softness. In your fierceness. In your uncertainty and your knowing.We create spaces that are kind, calm, and welcoming. We bring gear. We offer sensory-friendly options, adaptive tools, and growing accessibility features.We are guided by community agreements rooted in care and consent.We’re learning together. Making space for mistakes, for growth, for repair.This is more than a program or a group. It’s a community of care grounded in reciprocal and regenerative relationship with nature, ones' self, and one another.If you’ve ever been told you’re too much—or not enough—this space is for you.If you’ve ever longed to feel free on the trail, or safe under the stars, or home in your own body—this space is for you.If you carry the weight of systems and still show up with love—this space is for you.If you long to be silly without judgment, to be witnessed and welcomed in your wholeness - let us walk together.Let us reclaim and remember ourselves, our relationships with nature, and our relationships with each other.In a world that seeks to fragment and divide - let us root in joy, in justice, in something sacred and alive.

Mission, Vision, & Values

Mission: We empower community members of intersectional lived experiences to reclaim belonging and connection with themselves, each other, and all of nature—through inclusive and trauma informed outdoor experiences that provide tools, education, and community.Our work is designed through an equity-centered, intersectional approach that prioritizes those most impacted by systems of exclusion while remaining open to anyone navigating the complexities of belonging, access, and identity. Because when we build for equity and posterity, we all receive the benefits.Intersectional Lived Experiences= the compounded realities of being marginalized or targeted by multiple systems of oppression simultaneously—such as racism, ableism, classism, transphobia, xenophobia, and more.Vision: And all of it—every program, every gathering, every garden—is a seed planted toward our long-term vision: A land based sanctuary where everyone, people and planet, have what they need to be whole, rooted, and free in nature; fostering true belonging.Values: Grounded strongly in wisdom and guidance of Black Queer FeminismCommunal Healing – because no one heals aloneStewardship – because Earth care is both self and communal careBelonging – because difference is sacred and necessaryLove as the Practice of Freedom – because love builds collective liberation

Our Free & Pay What You Can Events and Programs

Freedom By The Fire
Nature x Liberation X Community. Join us as we come together around the fire to learn from one another about the movement for collective liberation in our own lives and communities, and how us as ordinary folks can engage in this movement. Click the button above to fill our our interest survey!Connecting on the Rail Trail
In beautiful partnership with Finca Luna Búho. Join us for a free and recurring community event series along the Ashuwillticook Bike Trail in the Berkshire/Taconic Region. Run by and for people of historically underrepresented identities in the outdoors, together we will go biking, riding, walking, birding, foraging, plant IDing, exploring queer ecology, and much more! Click the button above to visit the the website for this program where you can register, learn more, see impact, etc.Gentle Community Garden Care + Potlucks
1. Finca Luna Buhó in Cheshire, MA: Inter-community care supporting seeding solidarity, strengthening community bonds, practicing ancestral skills in land tending, and fostering connection to nature. Think relocating volunteer plants, pruning, harvesting, processing, medicine making, sharing food and joy, and much more.These events happen on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month throughout the growing season. All identities, experience levels, energy levels, and abilities are welcome! Click the button below to email us if you are interested in joining an upcoming event.2. Mixed Faces Wild Spaces in Dalton, MA: More inter-community care supporting a budding native ecological stewardship/ regenerative food growth in harmony with nature's needs. We will share food, wisdom, joy while supporting reciprocal relationships with people, plants, more than human kin, and place. Think tending native food forests, pollinator meadows, orchards, perennial and annual gardens, herbal medicine, seed saving, harvesting, and habitat restoration, followed by a shared meal.These gatherings occur once month starting in July of 2026 during the growing season. All identities, experience levels, energy levels, and abilities are welcome! Click the button below to email us if you are interested in joining an upcoming event.

Services Offered

Services
Guided wilderness/nature based experiences: Workshops, retreats, and nature-based events for your community or group. Think foraging, queer ecology hikes, tracking, shelter-building, intro to tent camping, skills shares, and much more!Speaking and consulting: Related to inclusive, healing, and trauma-informed outdoor programs and ecological stewardship. We primarily work with community-led organizations or those in shared governance with the communities they serve, where consulting supports internal capacity and accountability.Stewardship & Ecological Guidance: Supporting people and communities in building healthy, regenerative relationships with the land and our more-than-human kin. From apartment windows to backyard gardens, community spaces, or larger ecological projects, we offer guidance rooted in care, reciprocity, and connection. Learn more about our approach and services HERE!Justice advocacy & barrier reduction: Support for intersectional outdoorists and community-led organizations navigating systemic barriers through resource connection, knowledge sharing, and capacity-based advocacy. Think support during complex or overwhelming moments, navigating systems that impact access to nature, and behind-the-scenes advocacy grounded in care and accountability.

Our Economic Justice and Alternative Commerce Model

Our economic model is a living practice in justice, reciprocity, and sustainability. We recognize that financial access is not evenly distributed — especially under systems that marginalize, extract, and exclude. That’s why we offer our services through an Economic Justice & Solidarity Economy Model — ensuring that healing, connection, and ecological care are not reserved for the few.We believe right relationship includes how we exchange value. Our model invites transparency, trust, and shared responsibility.Summary of Offerings:
Sliding Scale Pricing
Three tiers — Pay-It-Forward, Supportive, and Accessible — so the rate aligns with your or your entity's financial reality.Solidarity Services
When we have capacity, we offer select services at no cost to those most impacted by systems of oppression. Please email to inquire about this!Confused or unsure about where you land on the sliding scale in general?🌱 For individuals/people, please use our self assessment tool to determine where you fall on the sliding scale for our services!🌱 For orgs or entities, please use our org assessment tool to determine where you fall on the sliding scale for our services.

Our Sliding Scale Prices

Custom pricing for each proposal/quote utilizing the following hourly sliding scale pricingFor facilitation/ stewardship
Pay-It-Forward: $85/hr
Supportive: $65/hr
Accessible: $45/hrFor coaching/ consultation
Pay-It-Forward: $100/hr
Supportive: $80/hr
Accessible: $60/hrFor Speaking Engagements
Pay-It-Forward: $450/hr
Supportive: $300/hr
Accessible: $150/hrNote: Materials are billed separately and must be paid upfront. Taxes are added to each custom quote and/or invoice

Join Us

🌱 We are planting seeds for a future where belonging is a birthright, and care is the currency.🌧️ If you are ready to water this vision in alignment, we welcome you in - whomever you may be and whatever your skills are.📍 Located in the Berkshire/Taconic Region of Turtle Island, within the unceded lands of the Mohican Nation. Click the link to be brought to the nation's homepage to learn more, connect, and nourish the People of the Waters that are never still.📧 Contact us via email at [email protected] to inquire about our offerings and to come into connection!🌐 Check out our Instagram for announcements about our free community events and much more!

Help us nourish this vision!

⏫ We invite you to steward this vision with us in the ways that feel aligned with your skills and abilities! Click the button above if you are interesting in collaborating or supporting!🚲 For Tax Deductible Donations towards our Connecting on the Rail Trail Program, check out our donation link here.⛺ We accept new and lightly used outdoor gear to add to our gear library! Please contact us first via email.🦋 Check out our Kofi shop! Kofi allows us to receive one time and recurring donations, post updates about our needs/ goals, and offer a variety of products for clients to purchase at sliding scale prices!We currently offer zines and aspire to offer d.i.y. guides/ worksheets/ other intellectual labor, culturally relevant hiking guides to the Berkshires for folks who experience marginalization, inclusive outdoor curriculum for groups, ecological/ permaculture designs, stickers/pins with our logo, and much more!

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