Full Circle Care for Greenstone: Family, Land & Legacy

After decades of offering their hearts, home, and healing land to the community, the beloved family of Greenstone Farm & Sanctuary is now in (urgent) need of communal support and care. This sanctuary, lovingly tended for over 54 years, has been a sacred space for gatherings, ceremonies, healing, education, and refuge—serving countless people from all walks of life.

But now, the family behind Greenstone is facing a series of overlapping adversities that have made it nearly impossible to sustain their daily care needs and continue stewarding the land.

This is an invitation for those who have been directly touched and for those who feel the call in their heart to support the beauty, generosity, profound healing and love that is offered at Greenstone and by the Grace / Carder-Vindel / Askari family to uplift them in this time of great change in their lives.

During the pandemic, the matriarch of Greenstone, Channa Grace, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and has since been facing the challenges and changes that come with this disease. Throughout her life, Channa worked incredibly hard to create opportunities for many people through her dedication to accessible housing, education, and resources through her founding organization, W.O.R.K.S. Now, it is time for Channa to receive the gift of care that she has so lovingly offered to others. After her retirement, the disease progressed significantly and her need for full-time support is increasing. Funds are needed to help her family bring in extra care providers as her daughter, Meadow, and grandson, Osani, have been facing their own health challenges throughout this time.

For their entire lives, Meadow and Osani have been navigating an underlying rare chronic illness that requires intensive surgeries, treatments, and medications to maintain their health and physical capacities. Due to the nature of the current medical system, their insurance only covers a portion of these necessary resources and the family has had to pay for a majority of the care out of pocket. We are asking for financial support to help the family meet their medical needs and give them time to rest through their recoveries.

As their bodies heal, the land of Greenstone is also healing. After the Eaton fires in January, the toxic ash covered the garden and compromised the safety of the food and medicine growing in the garden. Channa’s dream and offering of 54 years has been to welcome people from all walks of life to Greenstone as a sanctuary for education, community respite, and ceremony. However, bioremediation is needed before the land can fully welcome back the community. For a place rooted in African/Indigenous wisdom and ceremony, and in honoring those who came before to keep their traditions alive, this healing is not just physical—it is spiritual, ancestral, and deeply communal. This fundraiser is part of the invitation to continue upholding their lineage and Channa’s prayer for Greenstone to carry on for the community.

What makes this moment especially tender is that while the family continues to hold space and reverence for so many, they are now at a crossroads. Meadow, a devoted steward of Greenstone, continues to care for her mother while living with the challenges of chronic illness and needs multiple surgeries. Her son, Osani, also navigates life with the same physical capacities and will soon undergo surgery. And her husband, Eric, the other steward of Greenstone, has gracefully taken on the roles of caregiver to all three, and their toddler granddaughter, as well as he is the family’s sole provider. The weight of this responsibility has grown heavier—emotionally, physically, and financially; and the family—who has always given so freely—are in deep need of our support.

Because of these overlapping challenges and increasing financial strain, they’ve found themselves having to consider selling Greenstone—the very sanctuary that has healed and nourished so many spirits, bodies, and hearts. This would be an inconceivable loss to the family as that is their home and a great heartbreak to the community at large.

We are reaching out to all those whose lives have been touched by Greenstone, and to anyone who feels moved to help preserve a sacred space and support its family who has held so many with intention, care and love. The family has created and tended this sanctuary for decades; now, it’s our turn to tend to them.

Donated funds will go toward extra care for Channa, medical care for Meadow, Osani, and Channa, and covering the costs of continuing the Greenstone Farm & Sanctuary — land, home, and gardens.

No donation is too small, and every offering is a thread in the fabric of support this family so deeply deserves. May your generosity ripple outward, and may the blessings that Greenstone has shared with the world return to them now, in full circle, in their greatest time of need.

With deep gratitude,

Madeline and Tiffany - soul family and community of Greenstone