Sunder Ashni - Vision Builder and Steward

Ashni, daughter of Cynthia and Allan, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY with rich roots in the island of St. Vincent & The Grenadines.

Ashni is a private practitioner of Flower Essence Therapy, Somatic Experiencing® method, which is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. She is also a member of the Heart Centered Operations Team at MINKA. She facilitates ceremonies, meditations, and experiences permeated with love that cultivate radical awareness, appreciation of self, and overall ecstatic wellness within participants and their community with the intention of re-cultivating a deep connection with the Earth.

Find out more about Ashni at www.sunderashni.com

Rachel (Ray) N. Ellis (they/them, beloved, love, moonchild, ray of sunshine, sistar) - Farm Admin & Cultivator

Ray is star-seed of Grace and Guy Ellis, grandchild of Wilma Porter, Corden Porter, Annie and Robert Ellis; moonchild of Lena and Arnett Bell, Ethel and Corden Porter, Saphronia, and Mabel.

Ray is a Black, queer, neurodivergent, and gender expansive creative who has been living in the northeast for the last ten years. Originally from the south in so-called Louisville, Kentucky, Ray’s love and connection with the earth beneath their feet runs deep. Along with being a child of the mud, they come from a family of sharecroppers and land stewards. Much of what Ray remembers of land tending comes from conversations with or watching their maternal grandmother, Wilma in her garden, and stories shared from their father and family about country life living.

Ray is also a being of faith, a body-spirit worker, herbalist, medicine maker, ritualist, wailer, budding ancestral archivist, and writer whose work is informed and inspired by their connection to ancestors and spirit. They are a forever student, both self-taught and with trusted teachers and guides. Most of their current work revolves around threshold honoring and crossings. After finding out about their paternal great grandmother’s violent transition to etheric space, Ray began writing a body of work that, at its core centers finding new and expansive ways of processing grief. Ray’s favorite way of sharing their work is through encouraging crafting of stories by way of scent, sound, and intuitive movement.

This is Ray’s first season at Mumbet’s Freedom Farm, committing to consistently stewarding land and learning more about what that means here in so-called Massachusetts. It feels sacred to Ray for QTBIPOC/Folks of the Global Majority to have space specifically for (re)connecting to the land. They believe that these connections and information haven’t been lost, they have simply been interrupted. At every turn they find something new to learn that deepens their connection to the earth, all this through talking with the plants, the people, and growing food to share with community.

Cristina Guytingco (she/they)- Steward, 2025

Cristina is a Filipina-American movement artist, dancer, and Kali (martial arts) practitioner. Cristina has been practicing yoga for over four years. They completed their yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India this year in January 2025. They are driven to practice collective balance and inner peace. Cristina is passionate about creating safer communal spaces that center social justice and creative expression.

BeNu - Steward, 2025

Art guy and student of nature.

Fairy Hawk- Steward, 2025

Fairy Hawk is a Liberation Activator, Ritual Artist, Yogi, Indigenous Advocate, and Sacred Sacrament Ceremonialist. Her mission is to support humanity in remembering their original divinity and awakening the innate gifts that live within each of us. Through a blend of ancient and intuitive practices—including Channeled Readings, Reiki, Kundalini Yoga, Breathwork, Intuitive Bodywork, Light Language Activations, and Ritual Art—she offers pathways of remembrance, healing, and activation.

Her journey to the land has been one of profound transformation. Working in direct relationship with the Earth has taught her how to root more deeply into her body, listen to the wisdom of the natural world, and embody the cycles of life with reverence. The land has become both her teacher and her mirror—guiding her into greater presence, grounding, and wholeness.

Today, Fairy Hawk integrates these earth-based teachings with her ceremonial and yogic offerings, creating spaces where others can also reconnect with their bodies, the land, and the sacred essence of who they truly are.

Ayomide Jasmine Chinemerem Ikenga Eniola (AYO): Steward, 2023 & 2024

Ayo is a visual artist, dancer, writer, thespian, farmer, and Ifa practitioner. They were raised in Lagos, Nigeria where they learned to value the natural world and ancestral spiritual traditions, specifically from the Yoruba and Igbo tribal lineages.

Ayo sees art making as a ritual which becomes more powerful in community. Their work contains themes of interspecies relationships and intergenerational connection, reminding viewers of their biological and metaphysical bond with the natural world and their innate responsibility to protect the Earth. 

Ayo was a land steward at Mumbet’s Freedom Farm for two seasons. At Mumbet’s, they were reminded of the importance of having spaces for people of color to be in relationship with the land as an alternative to capitalism and a remedy for climate crisis.

Ayo is the director, choreographer, and vision keeper behind Symbiotic Futures. The first iteration of the project was set at the Book and Plow Farm in Amherst, MA and the second at Mumbet’s Freedom Farm as part of the Vunja! Carnival. Ayo recently moved to the Netherlands where they are hoping to set a third iteration of Symbiotic Futures and continue to develop themself as a creative earth-based being.

Jordan Stewart: Steward, 2024

I’m a queer, neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist who balances play and curiosity with emotionality, perspective, and creativity. Much of my work pays homage to my many inspirations and obsessions; nature, poetry, childlike wonder, dreams, animals, humanity, and the limitless possibilities of imagination. I enjoy many varied modes of expression; like photography, writing, drawing, painting, and stickering, to name a few.

Outside of my artistic engagements, I also have a deep reverence and care for nature and the Earth. My time at Mumbet’s was one of deep healing, community, and kinship. It’s always been a childhood dream of mine, to care for the land and learn to grow my own food. Being able to be immersed in the practice of land caretaking felt like a full circle moment for me, a return to a vision I’d nearly forgotten amongst the noise of life. I left feeling reinvigorated in my passion, with a deep sense of gratitude and more direction for my future.

It is a new dream of mine to someday cultivate a community space where folks can rest, play, and learn together- all while uplifting art, music, and vital education.