FARM HELPS HEAL NEW JERSEY NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY
On paper, the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Sussex County looks like a start-up business, but at its heart, it’s a charity with the goal of feeding, healing and sustaining members of the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape Nation. Munsee Three Sisters is one of several new endeavors supported by the Foodshed Alliance’s affordable farmland leasing program on preserved land, known as the Sustainable Agriculture Enterprise (SAgE). “The farm is there because it’s needed,” said Michaeline Picaro, who co-founded it with the clan’s chief, Vincent Mann. “Our community needs to be a caring community, centered around healthy food and healing. This is our life, our vision.”
