Mama's Honey Haus

Ceremonial Land Acknowledgment & Living Practice

Mama’s Honey Haus LLC lives and breathes within the forested hills of Washington County, Minnesota - within the ancestral homelands of the Dakota people, particularly the Mdewakanton Dakota, who have walked, sung, gathered, and held sacred relationship with this land since time immemorial.

Before this land was surveyed, measured, or named, it was known through relationship - through river, root, wing, and memory. The waters now called the St. Croix carried stories, sustenance, and ceremony. The forests held medicine, kinship, and belonging.

In 1851, through the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and related agreements, this land was taken under pressure, coercion, and imbalance of power. What had always been held in relationship was transformed into property - surveyed into grids, divided into parcels, and transferred into private ownership through systems that obscured its deeper story.

We speak this not to remain in harm, but to remain in truth.

We honor the Dakota as the original stewards of this land, and we recognize that this place exists within a broader web of Indigenous presence, including the Anishinaabe and other Nations whose movement, kinship, and histories are woven through these territories now called Mni Sota.

At Mama’s Honey Haus, we listen for what the land remembers.

We honor the sacred, living relationship between land, bees, plants, fungi, and the ancestral wisdom that moves through them all. Rooted in an ecowomanist understanding of the world, we recognize that all beings carry intelligence, memory, and spirit - and that we, too, are part of this breathing, interconnected web.

Our offerings are more than honey; they are vessels of remembrance, created through intentional care, ceremony, and deep listening to the land. From hive to hand, each creation reflects a commitment to reciprocity - honoring the labor of the bees, the teachings of fungi, and the quiet power of plants as relatives rather than resources.

Mama’s Honey Haus is more than a business - it is a sanctuary for healing, a space for reconnection, and a living practice of sustainability, where nourishment is not only physical, but ancestral, ecological, and deeply soulful.

We are guests here.
We are learning here.
We are remembering here.

May this work be a seed of return and remembrance.