Empowering Communities Through Organic Stewardship for the Youth: Supporting Land Preservation, via Food Sovereignty, Food Security in Regenerative Ranching and Wild Horse Eco-Education

UPDATES: Become a Guardian of the Gaviota Coast— for the children & for you to leave your legacy…

On the edge of LA’s urban sprawl, the Gaviota Coast is the last stand—the last 20 miles of undeveloped southern California coastline that stops development because of our community’s fight to protect it. A grassroots campaign is forming to lead a multi-property land-protection effort, deeply rooted in community involvement, to save the last undeveloped stretch of the Southern California coastline for future generations. Guardians of the California coast see the gateway to Gaviota starting at Winchester Canyon Road, heading north on the 101 to Gaviota State Beach, and continuing to Vandenberg and Point Sal. To the south, urban sprawl extends through Ventura, Oxnard, Malibu, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Long Beach, and crosses Camp Pendleton (which is regarded as developed by Camp Pendleton because it has bombs on it), San Diego, and the border down to Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico.

The Gaviota Coast is a national treasure to our California community, our nation, and the international community alike. Dedicating ourselves to safeguarding children’s future access to the wide-open coastal landscapes along the last remaining 20 miles of undeveloped coastline in Southern California is a legacy only we can leave behind. To dedicate our efforts solely to safeguarding the Gaviota coast for the children —the last remaining undeveloped coastline in Southern California—left.

The jewel of the coast, the Gateway to the Gaviota Coast: Eagle Canyon, Paradiso, Del Mar, Naples, Dos Pueblos, North, and South, with a goal of raising the money to secure all the properties.

The cause of saving the gateway to the Gaviota Coast, the jewel of the last 20 miles of undeveloped Southern California coastline left, is very important to the legacy we are leaving as Americans, a California legacy for all children. This Gaviota Coast is the jewel of California’s heart, a National Treasure and destination for the international community. Committed and unwavering in dedication, our team has reached out to individual investors, including billionaires with conservative values, who wish to leave a meaningful legacy by giving back to Southern California, a region that has greatly benefited from our coastline.

Now is the time for careful research, thoughtful planning, and strategic development to identify the best leader to bring this vision to life. We understand that some people want to give back to Southern California in their own way—those who have profited greatly from our coastline. We also know they desire a legacy for all generations and their families, and we believe you are these individuals and know the ones who can help save the Gaviota Coastline from urban sprawl development.

This is a time for research, planning, and development—finding the right person to lead this project and bring it to completion, as we are hiring a campaign organizer.

Become a California Wild Horse Coalition Member

The California Wild Horse Coalition members are as diverse as wild horses of various colors, nationalities, and backgrounds. Horses form bands, like a coalition built on a circle of inclusiveness.

Wild Horse Coalition members—

American Wild Horse Conservation, The Wild Horse Conspiracy, Loving Nature White Cloud Refuge, Order of the White Lotvs, Made by Mother Earth nonprofit, tribal voting members from the Cherokee/Choctaw Nation, Nüümü (Paiute) Tribal members, community members from the African American-Blackfoot Nation, the Mexican-American community, as well as Miwok Tribal members, Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribal members, Ahwahnechee Tribal members, Asian American, European lineages.

“Yet often the untold reality is that wild horses are going to slaughter. We would like to stop the local Montgomery Pass Wild Horses, such as the Mono Lake Wild Horses, from such a fate. Help us today.”

LA TIMES ARTICLE

Growing Food Sovereignty Together

In 2024-2026, a diverse coalition of young native farmers joined tribal Elders, conservationists, and a soil scientist to establish the Made by Mother Earth non-profit. 85% of our leadership is Native led.

Since 2022, prior to the formation of the Made by Mother Earth nonprofit, we have given away over 10,000 fruit and vegetable plants to all tribes in the Eastern Sierra and the closest Yosemite Tribes in the Western Sierra. Resulting in 100,000 lb of produce grown predominantly by tribal members of each nation, as each successful plant produces 10 pounds of produce per plant.

Providing food for elders, mothers, fathers, children, teens, youth, families, on every single reservation from Bridgeport Indian Colony, Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribe, Bishop Paiute Tribe, Big Pine Tribe, Fort Independence Tribe, Lone Pine, and Timbisha Death Valley tribes, California, Yosemite Souther Sierra Miwok, and the surrounding communities. According to one of our 12 advisors, Steve Sprinkle, a former California Organic Certifier and Eco Farms President, since each fruit and vegetable plant yields 8-10 pounds of produce, our Food Sovereignty Program and community members collectively grew $100,000 worth of produce, which equals over 70,000 pounds at an average of nearly $1.50 per pound.

The Mother Earth organic food security and food sovereignty program includes tribal members who need support in hiring local native youth to farm their own tribal allotment lands, tribal members who are farming organically on their allotment lands, skilled ranch hands working on the farm, and caring community members. The goal is to empower Native farmers in the Payahunadu food desert (Owens Valley, California) by supporting tribal members in hiring local tribal and community youth to grow community gardens throughout the reservations. By providing jobs and tools for learning and creating food sovereignty, food security, wild horse ecology education, and earth-based skills to protect and nurture the land. For the past 5 years, we have connected grant funding to tribal elders where available, found work for tribal contractors who hire their own staff, and provided jobs to over 15 tribal members in food sovereignty gardens throughout the valley and to 50 tribal members in snow removal.

So what do land protection, food sovereignty, and wild horse protection have in common? Community, history, a shared rich Western culture between Native and US Americans – now working together for balance and change.