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Abudu is an Earth tender, forest gardener, poet, natural builder, artist who seeks collective health & liberation through conscious practice, education, & relationship. He spends most of his days working in community at ‘Mama Tree Orchard’ and tending to the cycles of life on Chumash lands in the Ojai Valley.
After studying fine arts painting, drawing and ceramics at Pratt Institute of Art. He returned to LA, while focusing on yogic practices, Abudu created a pottery studio, with emphasis on ceramics as Sadhana, In Los Angeles, CA. After returning from a trip to Standing Rock, he was inspired to go deeper into ceremonial connection with the elements, food, medicine, and our more than human kin.
Feeling this Earth call, he closed the pottery studio and traveled throughout the central west coast studying Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Agroecology, Permaculture Design, & Natural Building.
His primary studies have been with Indigenous Communities, Quail Springs, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, and in the Siskiyou Mountains with Hazel Ward.
His most recent trip (2023) was to learn about and document Gurunsi Organic Farmers & his families agricultural practices in Northern Ghana, his father’s homelands. From this trip Anabala Agroforestry Project has sprouted.
Before moving to Ojai, he lived in Altadena and created Akwaaba Urban Food Forest Garden to offer food forest education in an urban context. This site has been visited by Hundreds of people, from neighbors to schools groups, including UCLA and USC students.
While he is forever a student of life, he continues to share his 2 hr Food Forest educational power point to high school and college students. Along with co-teaching educational hands on workshops in Ojai.
He currently spends most of his time developing Anabala Tree and working in community at MAMA TREE as a carpenter, arborist, and forest tender.