Location

Stone Soup Café is located in Greenfield, MA, on the corner of Hope Street and Main Street. We serve the most rural county in Massachusetts, Franklin County.

Stone Soup Café is located in the Connecticut River Valley on the ancestral homelands of the Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, and Wabanaki Confederacy. The history of Native Americans is our shared history and a vital part of American history. It is a living and evolving story of resistance, resilience, economic strength, and cultural revitalization. It is also a painful history of wrongdoing and loss. We can learn from it together.

Stone Soup Café recognizes that a brutal process of genocide and land grabbing is an undeniable part of our history. We understand that colonialism, racism, and capitalism intertwine in a harmful, vicious cycle. We are implicated in that harm unless we work to undo it.

We continue to look to Indigenous communities for ways to show up and follow their lead. We support the Nolumbeka Project, Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition, Ohketeau Cultural Center, and United American Indians of New England (UAINE).

Let's learn together. It is important for us all to understand the history that brings us each to reside on land on which we reside, and to understand our place within the land's history. Who are your people? What land do your people come from?

Let’s acknowledge the inhumanity of slavery and the violence that colonialism and white supremacy continue to act upon all of our bodies.

So much has been stolen from enslaved people and Indigenous people. Labor. Land. Language. Ceremony. Food. Education. Housing. Healthcare. Governance. Medicines. Kinship. Humanity.

This is only a first step in acknowledging that we must work to heal and repair our community as we co-create for belonging. We encourage you to engage in this work with us.