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Nature returns you to yourself.

The soil under your bare feet is the front door.

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The Covenant of the Path

We won't hand you a borrowed way.

Your way was placed in you before you had words. So the Guild makes a smaller promise, and keeps it completely: we will walk you back to yourself, by way of the living world.

Nature returns you to yourself.
Yourself is where the deepest connection has been waiting.
No intermediary needed. No permission required.
Weathered hands holding a seedling in a cup of dark soil
The Stewardship Charter

Twelve principles.
A wheel, not a ladder.

Each principle is a Book of the Codex, meant to be returned to season after season. Turn the wheel and take one practice outside today.

The Earth Keepers Codex

Twelve books. One living text.

The Covenant of the Path and the twelve Books of the Stewardship Charter, with the practices that go with each. Read it slowly, outside if you can, and return to it season after season.

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Practice

Reading about water has never made anyone less thirsty.

Two practices from the Codex. There is nothing to believe, only something to notice. Each takes about a minute or less.

From Book I · Reverence

Nature's song never stops.

For thirty seconds, be still and let the living world speak: wind in the leaves, a bird, an insect, water, your own breath. The song has been playing your whole life. All it asks is to be noticed.

30

From Book IV · Balance

A rhythm older than any clock.

In for four. Hold, soft. Out for four. Rest in the empty. Let the body make the turns.

Ready

In partnership withUnitree

Every grove, rooted in one network.

Beneath a forest, roots share water and nourishment across the whole wood. Unitree does the same for the land we tend, linking stewarded places around the world into one shared economy, backed by living land instead of debt.

Golden roots of an old tree glowing with threads of light that connect to a luminous map of the world over a forested valley at sunset
Protected for good

Land placed in trust stays in trust, and its yields are shared with those who tend it.

Shared by those who grow it

Land, capital, skills and labor each earn a share in what they help grow.

Valued by its health

Value rises only when the land itself gets better.

“Every currency in history has been backed by something.”The Earth Keepers Codex · Book VIII

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On the land

Teachings become practice where the ground is.

The Guild is one family of places, and it keeps growing. We tend land in Puna on Hawaiʻi Island, grow moringa with our partners in Uganda, and are forming projects in South Africa. On every stewarded land, a place is kept apart for gathering.

Hawaiʻi · Puna

Mālama ʻĀina Days, every week.

Clear albizia, build soil, plant a food forest and share a meal. No experience needed, only willing hands.

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 Moringa trees on the farm by Lake Kyoga in central Uganda
Uganda · Lake Kyoga

Moringa that nourishes.

Nutrient-rich moringa for families facing malnutrition, and a local economy that grows with every tree.

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South Africa

Land projects taking root.

Food forests, water restoration and earth-built homes, grown where we're invited, with the people of each place.

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Mālama ʻĀina Days

Weekly work days on the land. Arrive, work, eat, rest.

Planting festivals

A few times a year, people come to plant trees, not buy tickets.

A place set apart

A clearing on every stewarded land, kept for gathering and remembering.

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Gifting

Every gift takes root.

A gift to the Guild becomes living soil, young trees, clean water and a shared table in Hawaiʻi, Uganda and South Africa. Give once, give monthly, or give in a way that fits your life.

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Commitment to Stewardship

Sign the Charter.

I affirm my dedication to the principles of the Earth Keepers Guild Stewardship Charter. I pledge to embody these values in my actions and to contribute to a world of greater harmony and interconnectedness.

Signing is how people join the Guild. We'll write back with upcoming land days and ways to take part.

aloha@earthkeepersguild.org

The Stewardship Charter

Twelve principles, one signature.

Read the full Charter at your own pace, then sign it with your own hand. You'll receive a signed certificate to keep.

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Hawaiʻi · Puna, Hawaiʻi Island

Mālama ʻĀina Days

To care for the land that cares for us. Every week we gather on the land in Puna to clear albizia, build soil, plant forest and share a meal.

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Weekly schedule

Upcoming days on the land

RSVP so we know how many hands, and plates, to plan for. The meeting place is shared when you RSVP.

What a day looks like

Arrive, work, eat, rest.

ArriveOpening circle, ten seconds of listening, and the plan for the day.
TendSmall crews: clearing, mulching, planting, building, water work.
PauseWater, fruit, shade, and talk story.
Share a mealFood from the land when we can. Bring a dish if you like.
CloseWhat we did, what we noticed, what comes next.
  • Water bottle
  • Hat and reef-safe sunscreen
  • Work gloves
  • Closed-toe shoes
  • Rain layer, it's Puna
  • Clothes that can get muddy
  • A dish to share (optional)
From Book IX · Ancestral Wisdom

As guests on this ʻāina.

This land carries a lineage far older than any of us. The people whose lineage belongs to it have the standing to say yes, no, not yet, or not like that, and that standing does not expire once work has begun. We seek that guidance specifically, compensate it fairly, and measure ourselves by whether the community it comes from is flourishing.

South Africa

The same principles, a different soil.

We are forming regenerative land projects in South Africa with local communities: food forests, water restoration, earth-built homes and places to gather.

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What's forming

Projects

Locations and timelines will be shared as each project's community and land agreements come together.

How we arrive

We go where we're invited.

Every land has its own keepers and its own knowledge. Consent asked once and never revisited is not consent. In South Africa we are guided by the communities of each place, and we measure success by whether local people are thriving because of the relationship.

Have land, skills or community ties? Reach out
Moringa trees on the farm by Lake Kyoga in central Uganda
Uganda · Lake Kyoga

A tree that feeds the people who plant it.

On the shores of Lake Kyoga in central Uganda, moringa is bringing vital nutrients to families facing malnutrition, and building a local economy that grows with every tree.

Our work thereSupport Uganda
Why moringa

The tree people call a miracle.

Moringa's leaves are rich in protein, vitamins and minerals. Dried and ground into powder, they keep and travel well, so a spoonful stirred into an ordinary meal adds real nourishment where it's needed most.

It grows fast in heat and poor soil and comes back after every harvest. Where forest has been cut for charcoal and firewood, it is one of the first trees to give back: shade, soil and a living for the people who tend it.

Our mission in Uganda

Nourish people. Strengthen the local economy. Heal the land.

NOURISHMENT

Bringing moringa's vital nutrients to children and families facing malnutrition, grown close to the people who need it.

LOCAL ECONOMY

Growing, harvesting and processing moringa into leaf powder creates local work and income, so the value stays in the community.

HEALTH OF THE LAND

Regenerative agroforestry and permaculture that rebuild soil and bring trees back to land cleared for charcoal and firewood.

Rooted together

Four partners, one root system.

The work in Uganda is shared. Each partner brings what it does best.

Stewardship

Earth Keepers Guild

Community, care for the land and the twelve principles of the Charter, carried into every place we work.

Regenerative finance

Unitree ↗

Backing the work with living land instead of debt, so the value of healthier soil and trees is shared with those who tend them.

 The farm

Priceless Farms ↗

A regenerative agroforestry farm on Lake Kyoga, cultivating moringa and processing moringa leaf powder with permaculture design.

 Reforestation & innovation

Ventree Innovations ↗

The reforestation company behind Priceless Farms, guided by Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share.
From anywhere

Plant with us from wherever you are.

A gift to the Guild helps put moringa in the ground and nourishment on the table. If you work in nutrition, farming or community health, or have ties in East Africa, we'd love to hear from you.

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Gifting

Come grow something with us.

Every gift becomes living soil, young trees, clean water and a table where everyone is welcome. Join a circle of people around the world tending the land, and each other.

Make a giftWhere it goes
Our mission

Walking people back to themselves, by way of the living world.

The Earth Keepers Guild is a stewardship collective. We care for land in Hawaiʻi, Uganda and South Africa, and wherever we're invited next, as a living partner rather than a resource, and we open it to anyone who wants to put their hands in the soil.

Each week in Puna, Mālama ʻĀina Days bring people together to clear, plant, build soil and share a meal. Abroad, we go where communities invite us and follow their lead. Every choice is held to one test: will the seventh generation inherit more than we found?

Where your gift goes

Into the ground, and into the gathering.

Gift

Every gift takes root.

Give by card or bank, send digital currency, or bring something only you can offer. However it arrives, it goes into the ground and comes back as soil, shade and food.

Secure checkout · card, Apple Pay, Google Pay

Other ways to gift

Every kind of abundance has a place in the soil.

Not every gift fits in a checkout. Here are other ways to stand with the land and the people who tend it.

Legacy gifts

A gift that keeps growing.

Name the Earth Keepers Guild or Unitree in your will, trust or estate plan, and your care for the land keeps working for the generations that follow. We're glad to share whatever details your advisor needs.

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Materials & services

Bring what you have.

Tools, seed, building materials, equipment, access to land, a surplus harvest, a professional skill or simply your time. What's abundant in your hands may be exactly what the land is missing.

Offer what you have
Corporate & foundation partners

Grow something together.

Businesses and foundations can partner with us on work you can stand in: a food forest, a watershed restored, a season of Mālama ʻĀina Days, a moringa harvest in Uganda. We'll shape the project together and report back on what it grew.

Explore a partnership
Impact investing

Capital that heals.

We welcome conversations with wealth holders, philanthropists, foundations, regenerative enterprises and aligned organizations exploring how resources can be directed toward the flourishing of life. Through Unitree, capital can be rooted in land that regenerates rather than extracts.

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The Stewardship Charter

Read it slowly. Sign it when it's yours.

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Commitment to Stewardship

Sign the Charter.

Signing is how you join the Guild. Your name, signature and date are kept as the Guild's record, and a signed certificate is yours to keep.

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Teachings from the Twelve Guiding Principles

The Stewardship Charter, the Covenant of the Path and the twelve Books

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