Our garden in Park demonstrates meaningful and purposeful approaches to reconciliation as we provide educational decolonized workshops on location. We have sweet grass growing in the garden and often provide community gatherings to learn how to harvest and braid and learn its traditional values and medicines.

Among the garden there are other herbs that we make tea for healing and  educational information to help others understand how they can have medicine as well in their own backyards as we provide them with roots and seeds.  In addition, we grow vegetables with the children and families, seniors and new immigrants such as tomato, squash, beans and  carrots and give away to the community so they can take home or we use in our kitchen food skills program.

All summer long we're at the garden and in addition to sweet grass braiding workshops led by indigenous knowledge keepers, we provide other medicine making workshops such as the el compane that's growing in the garden and offer kale smoothie and kale salad for people to learn to eat it , drink it and or preserve it. Our sweetgrass is precious to us and we make medicine bags for the community combined with cedar, sage and tobacco which we also grow. Our garden builds capacity with our  families in the community and leadership skills, connections friendships and awareness of mother earth and our connection to the land.

Now that we have upgraded the garden plots we will have successful experiences planting, growing and saving seeds in the many seasons to come our way.

Happy Gardening!

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