Kindred Grove
A place for parents, caregivers, and villagers studying how to live in right relationship with children, each other, and the living world.
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The Grove
Essays and reflections from life with a child and a young orchard
The Circle
Shared study through an asynchronous book club
The Library
Self-paced classes exploring relationship, belonging, and care
See yourself here?
Kindred Grove may be for you if…
You believe raising children is communal work.
You want deeper questions than parenting tips and hacks.
You are interested in belonging, care, and interdependence.
You learn through reading, reflection, and conversation.
The Grove
A collection of stories, ideas, and practical reflections for cultivating relationships that help children—and all of us—flourish.
Meet the Founder
They say there’s no book on how to raise children. That may have been true at one point. These days, there are many, and I found myself falling into them early in my family planning process.
I’m still reading, researching, and learning how to unlearn inherited patterns and make space for something more attentive and relational with the child I’m raising.
My path into orchard work followed a similar shape. I started by volunteering on a farm, then worked full-time in agriculture before feeling drawn to my own project of restoring a neglected space into a food system.
Kindred Grove is where those two threads meet.
Here, I reflect on parenting, land, and everyday life as it unfolds.
I’m Anik, a nonbinary artist living alongside a young orchard while solo parenting and navigating neurodivergence. These labels shape how I move through the world and what I notice. They draw me toward questions of relationship, belonging, interdependence, and the ways we care for growing things.
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Despite being pulled away multiple times, I kept running back to this land every chance I could, trying to make it into my vision of an intentional community and food forest.