SALT is an online study kitchen offering critical nourishment, potluck studies, and decolonial practices. We gather bi-weekly via Zoom on Monday evenings for three months.

Radical Rest, Dreaming Ancestral Futures

Winter is the season of rest — a time when life slows down and retreats underground to regenerate. Above ground, the fields appear barren; beneath the surface, soil is alive, becoming nutricious. Roots reach down, mycelium weaves unseen connections, and seeds listen in the dark.

In this season of SALT, we engage with soil as our teacher, attuning to underground ecosystems. Like soil in winter, we practice rest as an act of refusal — a breaking of the spell of speed and scarcity that keeps us depleted and compliant to colonial and capitalist logics measuring worth by productivity. Rest not as avoidance or indulgence, but as a form of devotion to the cycles that sustain life.

Core practices:

• observing and learning with the biological processes that happen in the soil during winter: nutrient cycles, decomposition, seed preservation, microbial activity
• collective dreamwork — intuitive practices tapping into deeper patterns arising from the wider (un)consciousness
• storytelling and speculative fiction writing — weaving stories that sprout from the fertile dark of imagination and guide us towards ancestral futures
• tea ceremonies: we practice the art of steeping — slowing down long enough to listen, making brews from locally harvested plants and herbs
• compost tea making — as we brew tea for ourselves, we also prepare compost tea for the soil and plants, offering nourishment back to the more-than-human world. Each sip becomes a small ceremony of reciprocity. A reminder that rest is relational, that our slowing feeds the wider web of life.

Resting radically means reclaiming the body as part of the larger body of earth, pausing long enough to listen to what the world is asking of us. We rest not to return to business as usual, but to build the capacity to struggle in solidarity with land defenders. Tapping into the ancestral futures that have always been there and taking responsibility to dismantle the harmful structures that stand in their way. From this fertile dark, we grow more resilient, more connected, and more resourced — ready to emerge in spring renewed for collective action and solidarity.

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What is SALT?

An experimental, translocal study kitchen where learning is inseparable from living. Through somatic practices, collective cooking, critical conversations, and shared reading, we gather around metaphorical and literal kitchen tables to ferment thought, nourish resistance, and practice embodied transformation.

Why SALT?

SALT stands for Solidarity, Action, (Un)Learning & Transformation—the core ingredients of this programme. Salt preserves, seasons, disrupts, and heals. It has been traded, taxed, mined, and marched for, entwining it to histories of violence and resistance. It draws out flavor in food and stings wounds before healing them.