08/28/2026
I’m excited to finally share Tidmarsh Farms, Carrying the Land Forward, a project I’ve been working on since heading into the summer.
The full film is available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/nsCldkqbjEs
The film tells the story of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe’s connection to the Tidmarsh landscape and what its future could become.
Once shaped by cranberry farming, Tidmarsh has undergone an extraordinary ecological restoration. For the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, these are ancestral homelands, making this story about much more than conservation. It is also about cultural continuity, traditional ecological knowledge, stewardship, and what we leave for future generations.
I am incredibly grateful to Melissa Harding Ferretti, the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe Council, Tribal leaders, Elders, community members, project partners, and everyone who trusted me with this story and shared their knowledge along the way.
This project also meant a great deal to me personally. With my own Maliseet Native heritage, I feel a strong connection to Indigenous storytelling and to preserving our histories, voices, cultures, and relationships with the land.
To me, carrying the land forward means understanding what came before us, caring for what is here now, and thinking carefully about what we leave for those who come next.
Learn more at herringpondtribe.org
An AC Production by Alex Haggert
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