Seeds of Harmony Inc

Our background: Our roots are within the heart of the largest Indigenous nation in the United States, the Navajo Nation. We are surrounded by some of the most beautiful, diverse, and sensitive lands. Unfortunately, we are also faced with many social disparities that exist within many tribal communities, such as poverty, substance abuse, mental health concerns, lack of infrastructure, remote living within a food desert, and over dependence on the government. These challenges have resulted in a large focus of the government and people being absorbed in basic survival. In turn, the people, land, vegetation, waterways, wetlands, springs, and watersheds have suffered. In our remote land, the impacts of climate change are very evident.

Our Mission: Care for the Earth, Care for the People, and Share the Bounty.

We achieve our mission by empowering our tribal communities to practice and maintain a sustainable and healthy way of life while learning from and teaching about our local ecosystems as well as fostering respect and care for our watersheds.

Our Vision: We envision healthy land and healthy people through water and food security to sustain us with our changing planet, a place of abundant and diverse vegetation, thriving gardens, and clean plentiful water to support all living beings. Hozho be' Iina.

What we do: We initiate watershed planning that will focus on restoring healthy water systems through restoration, water harvesting, and conservation practices. We implement water harvesting projects that will focus on planting the rain. One major component will be to install rain gutters and tanks at homes that will capture and store rain water from the roofs. The water may be used to support vegetation, supplement livestock watering, and potentially even be used as a potable water source. 

In 2023 we installed the first rainwater roof catchment system and by August of the same year the home has captured over 6000 gallons of water from snow runoff and recent monsoon rains. The family happily reported they are able to bathe each evening, haven’t hauled water since the install, and planted a garden. As of today, we have installed 6 rainwater harvesting roof catchment tanks. This has brought a well needed source of water to homes that do not have piped water. Each rainfall and snow event brings blessings of stored water and reduces the need to haul water. Thus far over 10,000 gallons of precipitation have been captured and planted in the Lukachukai Creek watershed. Efforts are being explored to make this water potable.

We also host training workshops, seminars, and projects that are designed to rally the communities to share and teach techniques to help mitigate the impacts of our changing planet. Seeds of Harmony’s vision is to invest the communities to grow into collective action communities. Each of our objectives have various facets which overlap in the doctrines of permaculture, sustainability, and ecological responsibility. These principles will enrich our communities.