#foodforests — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #foodforests, aggregated by home.social.
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A Week At Lovebrook
"Lovebrook is a for-benefit organisation based across thirty three acres in the beautiful South Downs village of Kingston. This ambitious project includes agro-ecological farm, food forest, therapeutic work, wellbeing activities, trainee farmers course, farm shop and cafe, camping and a programme of rewilding, ponds and tree planting."
https://www.lovebrook.org/#SolarPunkSunday #Volunteer #Trees #ReWilding #LoveBrook #AgroEcology #FoodForests #Farming
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A Week At Lovebrook
"Lovebrook is a for-benefit organisation based across thirty three acres in the beautiful South Downs village of Kingston. This ambitious project includes agro-ecological farm, food forest, therapeutic work, wellbeing activities, trainee farmers course, farm shop and cafe, camping and a programme of rewilding, ponds and tree planting."
https://www.lovebrook.org/#SolarPunkSunday #Volunteer #Trees #ReWilding #LoveBrook #AgroEcology #FoodForests #Farming
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A Week At Lovebrook
"Lovebrook is a for-benefit organisation based across thirty three acres in the beautiful South Downs village of Kingston. This ambitious project includes agro-ecological farm, food forest, therapeutic work, wellbeing activities, trainee farmers course, farm shop and cafe, camping and a programme of rewilding, ponds and tree planting."
https://www.lovebrook.org/#SolarPunkSunday #Volunteer #Trees #ReWilding #LoveBrook #AgroEcology #FoodForests #Farming
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A Week At Lovebrook
"Lovebrook is a for-benefit organisation based across thirty three acres in the beautiful South Downs village of Kingston. This ambitious project includes agro-ecological farm, food forest, therapeutic work, wellbeing activities, trainee farmers course, farm shop and cafe, camping and a programme of rewilding, ponds and tree planting."
https://www.lovebrook.org/#SolarPunkSunday #Volunteer #Trees #ReWilding #LoveBrook #AgroEcology #FoodForests #Farming
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RE: https://masto.nu/@greenyouthmovement/117296470423545081
Help GYM achieve #FoodSecurity ! Every little bit helps!
"Imagine a family in central Uganda that struggles every day to provide enough nutritious food for their children. Through the #GreenYouthMovement, this family gains more than just a meal; they engage their Head by acquiring vital agricultural knowledge, pour their Heart into restoring degraded land, use their Hands to cultivate sustainable crops, and build long-term Health for their household and community.
What begins as a single garden plot leads to immediate improvements in family well-being, lower household costs, and new income opportunities. Operating on just a single acre with 15 dedicated volunteers, GYM's proven model has already produced and distributed over 1.2 tons of food crops like maize, tomatoes, and spinach, deployed 25 fruit trees to initiate community food forests, and partnered with Moonlight Nursery & Primary School to provide hands-on agricultural education to students.
Now, we are ready to scale this success. A $16,000 investment will secure three acres of contiguous land, unlocking the ability to establish a permanent educational headquarters and a significantly larger fruit tree nursery. This expansion will allow GYM to provide seedlings to hundreds of households and enroll four additional schools in its outreach programs, turning this successful pilot into a regional movement that provides the foundation for families to move from #FoodInsecurity to long-term #SelfSufficiency."
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RE: https://masto.nu/@greenyouthmovement/117296470423545081
Help GYM achieve #FoodSecurity ! Every little bit helps!
"Imagine a family in central Uganda that struggles every day to provide enough nutritious food for their children. Through the #GreenYouthMovement, this family gains more than just a meal; they engage their Head by acquiring vital agricultural knowledge, pour their Heart into restoring degraded land, use their Hands to cultivate sustainable crops, and build long-term Health for their household and community.
What begins as a single garden plot leads to immediate improvements in family well-being, lower household costs, and new income opportunities. Operating on just a single acre with 15 dedicated volunteers, GYM's proven model has already produced and distributed over 1.2 tons of food crops like maize, tomatoes, and spinach, deployed 25 fruit trees to initiate community food forests, and partnered with Moonlight Nursery & Primary School to provide hands-on agricultural education to students.
Now, we are ready to scale this success. A $16,000 investment will secure three acres of contiguous land, unlocking the ability to establish a permanent educational headquarters and a significantly larger fruit tree nursery. This expansion will allow GYM to provide seedlings to hundreds of households and enroll four additional schools in its outreach programs, turning this successful pilot into a regional movement that provides the foundation for families to move from #FoodInsecurity to long-term #SelfSufficiency."
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RE: https://masto.nu/@greenyouthmovement/117296470423545081
Help GYM achieve #FoodSecurity ! Every little bit helps!
"Imagine a family in central Uganda that struggles every day to provide enough nutritious food for their children. Through the #GreenYouthMovement, this family gains more than just a meal; they engage their Head by acquiring vital agricultural knowledge, pour their Heart into restoring degraded land, use their Hands to cultivate sustainable crops, and build long-term Health for their household and community.
What begins as a single garden plot leads to immediate improvements in family well-being, lower household costs, and new income opportunities. Operating on just a single acre with 15 dedicated volunteers, GYM's proven model has already produced and distributed over 1.2 tons of food crops like maize, tomatoes, and spinach, deployed 25 fruit trees to initiate community food forests, and partnered with Moonlight Nursery & Primary School to provide hands-on agricultural education to students.
Now, we are ready to scale this success. A $16,000 investment will secure three acres of contiguous land, unlocking the ability to establish a permanent educational headquarters and a significantly larger fruit tree nursery. This expansion will allow GYM to provide seedlings to hundreds of households and enroll four additional schools in its outreach programs, turning this successful pilot into a regional movement that provides the foundation for families to move from #FoodInsecurity to long-term #SelfSufficiency."
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RE: https://masto.nu/@greenyouthmovement/117296470423545081
Help GYM achieve #FoodSecurity ! Every little bit helps!
"Imagine a family in central Uganda that struggles every day to provide enough nutritious food for their children. Through the #GreenYouthMovement, this family gains more than just a meal; they engage their Head by acquiring vital agricultural knowledge, pour their Heart into restoring degraded land, use their Hands to cultivate sustainable crops, and build long-term Health for their household and community.
What begins as a single garden plot leads to immediate improvements in family well-being, lower household costs, and new income opportunities. Operating on just a single acre with 15 dedicated volunteers, GYM's proven model has already produced and distributed over 1.2 tons of food crops like maize, tomatoes, and spinach, deployed 25 fruit trees to initiate community food forests, and partnered with Moonlight Nursery & Primary School to provide hands-on agricultural education to students.
Now, we are ready to scale this success. A $16,000 investment will secure three acres of contiguous land, unlocking the ability to establish a permanent educational headquarters and a significantly larger fruit tree nursery. This expansion will allow GYM to provide seedlings to hundreds of households and enroll four additional schools in its outreach programs, turning this successful pilot into a regional movement that provides the foundation for families to move from #FoodInsecurity to long-term #SelfSufficiency."
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Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
The Forest Garden: An Unsung Hero
August 19, 2020
"Poor nutrition and food insecurity have rocked rural areas across #Africa for years and, at the same time, smallholder farmers are seeing less success in the increasingly challenging world of agriculture. Regenerative #agroforestry nonprofit #TreesForTheFuture ( #TREES ) recognizes the connection between agriculture and chronic hunger and poverty. If we change the way we farm, entire swaths of rural communities stand to benefit and that’s exactly what Trees for the Future is doing.
"Consider #Uganda, where more than 30% of the population faces some level of chronic #FoodInsecurity. Hunger and poverty are tied to a number of factors, including farming practices, natural disasters, #ClimateChange, high food prices, and lack of education. Fortunately, there’s a proven solution. Farming has the potential to mitigate climate change, protect families from volatile markets, and offer resources and pathways out of hunger and poverty. As it happens, farming is the most common occupation in Uganda and makes up 24% of the country’s GDP. 84% of the national population lives in rural areas, but despite the prevalence of farmers and farmland in this East African nation, there is not enough food to go around. Studies have shown that most rural families are not eating essential nutritious food and are also living in extreme poverty which is less than $1.90 (Ush 7030 Uganda shillings) a day. (USAID, 2018)
"TREES has been training farmers in what they call the #ForestGarden approach since 2015 (introducing it to Ugandan farming communities in 2016). The Forest Garden Approach uses #agroforestry and #SustainableFarming practices to protect land, diversify crops, and optimize space. Farmers are trained in the Forest Garden Approach over a four-year period and TREES provides all the training, seeds, tools and materials.
"Through the Forest Garden Approach, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect and bring nutrients back to the soil and make the farmer more resilient to climate change-related weather patterns like drought or flooding. As their soil health improves, farmers grow a variety of fruits and vegetables, which in turn increases income and #FoodSecurity for the farmers.
"The Forest Garden Approach has proven to be a hero for farming families and their communities across sub-Saharan Africa - in #Senegal, #Cameroon, #Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. To date, TREES has helped 142,400 people in these countries. In Uganda, 2,291 families have participated in TREES’ program and more than 13,000 people have benefited.
" 'The work we are doing as an organisation is greatly impacting these communities and will have a lasting effect on so many smallholder farmers in these areas,' says Ivan Tumuhimbise, Country Director at Trees for the Future Uganda, adding that the Forest Garden Approach is an easy technique that any farmer can use to improve and change their livelihood.
"As each Forest Garden grows and matures, so will the resilience of each Forest Garden family. What was once degraded and unproductive land is now rich with nutrients and bursting with life. Farmers are harvesting dozens of crops instead of just one or two, which means that many more paydays and more dietary diversity. TREES is continually reaching out to more farming communities to provide Forest Garden training, with the goal to give all farmers the opportunity to revitalize their land and their livelihoods."
Source:
https://trees.org/stories/forest-garden-unsung-hero#SolarPunkSunday #Biodiversity #GrowYourOwn #ClimateChangeGardening #FoodForests #ForestGardens
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The Forest Garden: An Unsung Hero
August 19, 2020
"Poor nutrition and food insecurity have rocked rural areas across #Africa for years and, at the same time, smallholder farmers are seeing less success in the increasingly challenging world of agriculture. Regenerative #agroforestry nonprofit #TreesForTheFuture ( #TREES ) recognizes the connection between agriculture and chronic hunger and poverty. If we change the way we farm, entire swaths of rural communities stand to benefit and that’s exactly what Trees for the Future is doing.
"Consider #Uganda, where more than 30% of the population faces some level of chronic #FoodInsecurity. Hunger and poverty are tied to a number of factors, including farming practices, natural disasters, #ClimateChange, high food prices, and lack of education. Fortunately, there’s a proven solution. Farming has the potential to mitigate climate change, protect families from volatile markets, and offer resources and pathways out of hunger and poverty. As it happens, farming is the most common occupation in Uganda and makes up 24% of the country’s GDP. 84% of the national population lives in rural areas, but despite the prevalence of farmers and farmland in this East African nation, there is not enough food to go around. Studies have shown that most rural families are not eating essential nutritious food and are also living in extreme poverty which is less than $1.90 (Ush 7030 Uganda shillings) a day. (USAID, 2018)
"TREES has been training farmers in what they call the #ForestGarden approach since 2015 (introducing it to Ugandan farming communities in 2016). The Forest Garden Approach uses #agroforestry and #SustainableFarming practices to protect land, diversify crops, and optimize space. Farmers are trained in the Forest Garden Approach over a four-year period and TREES provides all the training, seeds, tools and materials.
"Through the Forest Garden Approach, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect and bring nutrients back to the soil and make the farmer more resilient to climate change-related weather patterns like drought or flooding. As their soil health improves, farmers grow a variety of fruits and vegetables, which in turn increases income and #FoodSecurity for the farmers.
"The Forest Garden Approach has proven to be a hero for farming families and their communities across sub-Saharan Africa - in #Senegal, #Cameroon, #Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. To date, TREES has helped 142,400 people in these countries. In Uganda, 2,291 families have participated in TREES’ program and more than 13,000 people have benefited.
" 'The work we are doing as an organisation is greatly impacting these communities and will have a lasting effect on so many smallholder farmers in these areas,' says Ivan Tumuhimbise, Country Director at Trees for the Future Uganda, adding that the Forest Garden Approach is an easy technique that any farmer can use to improve and change their livelihood.
"As each Forest Garden grows and matures, so will the resilience of each Forest Garden family. What was once degraded and unproductive land is now rich with nutrients and bursting with life. Farmers are harvesting dozens of crops instead of just one or two, which means that many more paydays and more dietary diversity. TREES is continually reaching out to more farming communities to provide Forest Garden training, with the goal to give all farmers the opportunity to revitalize their land and their livelihoods."
Source:
https://trees.org/stories/forest-garden-unsung-hero#SolarPunkSunday #Biodiversity #GrowYourOwn #ClimateChangeGardening #FoodForests #ForestGardens
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The Forest Garden: An Unsung Hero
August 19, 2020
"Poor nutrition and food insecurity have rocked rural areas across #Africa for years and, at the same time, smallholder farmers are seeing less success in the increasingly challenging world of agriculture. Regenerative #agroforestry nonprofit #TreesForTheFuture ( #TREES ) recognizes the connection between agriculture and chronic hunger and poverty. If we change the way we farm, entire swaths of rural communities stand to benefit and that’s exactly what Trees for the Future is doing.
"Consider #Uganda, where more than 30% of the population faces some level of chronic #FoodInsecurity. Hunger and poverty are tied to a number of factors, including farming practices, natural disasters, #ClimateChange, high food prices, and lack of education. Fortunately, there’s a proven solution. Farming has the potential to mitigate climate change, protect families from volatile markets, and offer resources and pathways out of hunger and poverty. As it happens, farming is the most common occupation in Uganda and makes up 24% of the country’s GDP. 84% of the national population lives in rural areas, but despite the prevalence of farmers and farmland in this East African nation, there is not enough food to go around. Studies have shown that most rural families are not eating essential nutritious food and are also living in extreme poverty which is less than $1.90 (Ush 7030 Uganda shillings) a day. (USAID, 2018)
"TREES has been training farmers in what they call the #ForestGarden approach since 2015 (introducing it to Ugandan farming communities in 2016). The Forest Garden Approach uses #agroforestry and #SustainableFarming practices to protect land, diversify crops, and optimize space. Farmers are trained in the Forest Garden Approach over a four-year period and TREES provides all the training, seeds, tools and materials.
"Through the Forest Garden Approach, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect and bring nutrients back to the soil and make the farmer more resilient to climate change-related weather patterns like drought or flooding. As their soil health improves, farmers grow a variety of fruits and vegetables, which in turn increases income and #FoodSecurity for the farmers.
"The Forest Garden Approach has proven to be a hero for farming families and their communities across sub-Saharan Africa - in #Senegal, #Cameroon, #Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. To date, TREES has helped 142,400 people in these countries. In Uganda, 2,291 families have participated in TREES’ program and more than 13,000 people have benefited.
" 'The work we are doing as an organisation is greatly impacting these communities and will have a lasting effect on so many smallholder farmers in these areas,' says Ivan Tumuhimbise, Country Director at Trees for the Future Uganda, adding that the Forest Garden Approach is an easy technique that any farmer can use to improve and change their livelihood.
"As each Forest Garden grows and matures, so will the resilience of each Forest Garden family. What was once degraded and unproductive land is now rich with nutrients and bursting with life. Farmers are harvesting dozens of crops instead of just one or two, which means that many more paydays and more dietary diversity. TREES is continually reaching out to more farming communities to provide Forest Garden training, with the goal to give all farmers the opportunity to revitalize their land and their livelihoods."
Source:
https://trees.org/stories/forest-garden-unsung-hero#SolarPunkSunday #Biodiversity #GrowYourOwn #ClimateChangeGardening #FoodForests #ForestGardens
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The Forest Garden: An Unsung Hero
August 19, 2020
"Poor nutrition and food insecurity have rocked rural areas across #Africa for years and, at the same time, smallholder farmers are seeing less success in the increasingly challenging world of agriculture. Regenerative #agroforestry nonprofit #TreesForTheFuture ( #TREES ) recognizes the connection between agriculture and chronic hunger and poverty. If we change the way we farm, entire swaths of rural communities stand to benefit and that’s exactly what Trees for the Future is doing.
"Consider #Uganda, where more than 30% of the population faces some level of chronic #FoodInsecurity. Hunger and poverty are tied to a number of factors, including farming practices, natural disasters, #ClimateChange, high food prices, and lack of education. Fortunately, there’s a proven solution. Farming has the potential to mitigate climate change, protect families from volatile markets, and offer resources and pathways out of hunger and poverty. As it happens, farming is the most common occupation in Uganda and makes up 24% of the country’s GDP. 84% of the national population lives in rural areas, but despite the prevalence of farmers and farmland in this East African nation, there is not enough food to go around. Studies have shown that most rural families are not eating essential nutritious food and are also living in extreme poverty which is less than $1.90 (Ush 7030 Uganda shillings) a day. (USAID, 2018)
"TREES has been training farmers in what they call the #ForestGarden approach since 2015 (introducing it to Ugandan farming communities in 2016). The Forest Garden Approach uses #agroforestry and #SustainableFarming practices to protect land, diversify crops, and optimize space. Farmers are trained in the Forest Garden Approach over a four-year period and TREES provides all the training, seeds, tools and materials.
"Through the Forest Garden Approach, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect and bring nutrients back to the soil and make the farmer more resilient to climate change-related weather patterns like drought or flooding. As their soil health improves, farmers grow a variety of fruits and vegetables, which in turn increases income and #FoodSecurity for the farmers.
"The Forest Garden Approach has proven to be a hero for farming families and their communities across sub-Saharan Africa - in #Senegal, #Cameroon, #Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. To date, TREES has helped 142,400 people in these countries. In Uganda, 2,291 families have participated in TREES’ program and more than 13,000 people have benefited.
" 'The work we are doing as an organisation is greatly impacting these communities and will have a lasting effect on so many smallholder farmers in these areas,' says Ivan Tumuhimbise, Country Director at Trees for the Future Uganda, adding that the Forest Garden Approach is an easy technique that any farmer can use to improve and change their livelihood.
"As each Forest Garden grows and matures, so will the resilience of each Forest Garden family. What was once degraded and unproductive land is now rich with nutrients and bursting with life. Farmers are harvesting dozens of crops instead of just one or two, which means that many more paydays and more dietary diversity. TREES is continually reaching out to more farming communities to provide Forest Garden training, with the goal to give all farmers the opportunity to revitalize their land and their livelihoods."
Source:
https://trees.org/stories/forest-garden-unsung-hero#SolarPunkSunday #Biodiversity #GrowYourOwn #ClimateChangeGardening #FoodForests #ForestGardens
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#IndigenousPeoples in #BritishColumbia Tended #ForestGardens
Found near villages, research suggests the Indigenous population intentionally planted and maintained these patches of fruit and nut trees
Alex Fox | Correspondent
April 29, 2021"Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, former villages of the #Tsmsyen and #CoastSalish Indigenous peoples are flanked by what researchers have termed
'forest gardens.' On lands covered in forests dominated by #hemlock and #cedar trees, these forest gardens represent abrupt departures from the surrounding #ecosystem. The dark, closed canopy of the conifer forest opens up and is replaced by a sunny, orchard-like spread of food-producing trees and shrubs, such as #crabapple, #hazelnut, #cranberry, #WildPlum and #WildCherry."#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
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#IndigenousPeoples in #BritishColumbia Tended #ForestGardens
Found near villages, research suggests the Indigenous population intentionally planted and maintained these patches of fruit and nut trees
Alex Fox | Correspondent
April 29, 2021"Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, former villages of the #Tsmsyen and #CoastSalish Indigenous peoples are flanked by what researchers have termed
'forest gardens.' On lands covered in forests dominated by #hemlock and #cedar trees, these forest gardens represent abrupt departures from the surrounding #ecosystem. The dark, closed canopy of the conifer forest opens up and is replaced by a sunny, orchard-like spread of food-producing trees and shrubs, such as #crabapple, #hazelnut, #cranberry, #WildPlum and #WildCherry."#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory -
#IndigenousPeoples in #BritishColumbia Tended #ForestGardens
Found near villages, research suggests the Indigenous population intentionally planted and maintained these patches of fruit and nut trees
Alex Fox | Correspondent
April 29, 2021"Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, former villages of the #Tsmsyen and #CoastSalish Indigenous peoples are flanked by what researchers have termed
'forest gardens.' On lands covered in forests dominated by #hemlock and #cedar trees, these forest gardens represent abrupt departures from the surrounding #ecosystem. The dark, closed canopy of the conifer forest opens up and is replaced by a sunny, orchard-like spread of food-producing trees and shrubs, such as #crabapple, #hazelnut, #cranberry, #WildPlum and #WildCherry."#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory -
#IndigenousPeoples in #BritishColumbia Tended #ForestGardens
Found near villages, research suggests the Indigenous population intentionally planted and maintained these patches of fruit and nut trees
Alex Fox | Correspondent
April 29, 2021"Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, former villages of the #Tsmsyen and #CoastSalish Indigenous peoples are flanked by what researchers have termed
'forest gardens.' On lands covered in forests dominated by #hemlock and #cedar trees, these forest gardens represent abrupt departures from the surrounding #ecosystem. The dark, closed canopy of the conifer forest opens up and is replaced by a sunny, orchard-like spread of food-producing trees and shrubs, such as #crabapple, #hazelnut, #cranberry, #WildPlum and #WildCherry."#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory -
A garden doesn't just grow plants,it grows peace of mind.
#gardening #farming #agriculture #food #sustainability #Climate #nature #NaturePhotography #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #Photography #mastodon #Fediverse #linux #USA #uk #garden #plants #vegetables #vegetarian #permaculture #foodforests #homesteading @Kathymahan1234 @thechattygardener @GardenGuides @HomesGardens @gardening @foodpluswords_ @sarahtaber @camaleon @fuglede @gentlegardener @chris @agri -
A garden doesn't just grow plants,it grows peace of mind.
#gardening #farming #agriculture #food #sustainability #Climate #nature #NaturePhotography #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #Photography #mastodon #Fediverse #linux #USA #uk #garden #plants #vegetables #vegetarian #permaculture #foodforests #homesteading @Kathymahan1234 @thechattygardener @GardenGuides @HomesGardens @gardening @foodpluswords_ @sarahtaber @camaleon @fuglede @gentlegardener @chris @agri -
A garden doesn't just grow plants,it grows peace of mind.
#gardening #farming #agriculture #food #sustainability #Climate #nature #NaturePhotography #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #Photography #mastodon #Fediverse #linux #USA #uk #garden #plants #vegetables #vegetarian #permaculture #foodforests #homesteading @Kathymahan1234 @thechattygardener @GardenGuides @HomesGardens @gardening @foodpluswords_ @sarahtaber @camaleon @fuglede @gentlegardener @chris @agri -
A garden doesn't just grow plants,it grows peace of mind.
#gardening #farming #agriculture #food #sustainability #Climate #nature #NaturePhotography #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #Photography #mastodon #Fediverse #linux #USA #uk #garden #plants #vegetables #vegetarian #permaculture #foodforests #homesteading @Kathymahan1234 @thechattygardener @GardenGuides @HomesGardens @gardening @foodpluswords_ @sarahtaber @camaleon @fuglede @gentlegardener @chris @agri -
Any one to help us identify this type of plant
#Agroforestry #FoodForests #Permaculture -
Any one to help us identify this type of plant
#Agroforestry #FoodForests #Permaculture -
Any one to help us identify this type of plant
#Agroforestry #FoodForests #Permaculture -
🌳🌱What if part of our protein future is growing above our heads?
We need more trees to cool the planet, restore soils and biodiversity. Mulberry trees are fascinating: their leaves are nutritious, protein-rich, perennial, and can be harvested without repeatedly disturbing the soil. They can also be processed into leaf protein concentrate (LPC).
Could tree-based protein help transform agriculture? 🌍
Have you eaten mulberry leaves? What do you think? 💬
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🌳🌱What if part of our protein future is growing above our heads?
We need more trees to cool the planet, restore soils and biodiversity. Mulberry trees are fascinating: their leaves are nutritious, protein-rich, perennial, and can be harvested without repeatedly disturbing the soil. They can also be processed into leaf protein concentrate (LPC).
Could tree-based protein help transform agriculture? 🌍
Have you eaten mulberry leaves? What do you think? 💬
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🌳🌱What if part of our protein future is growing above our heads?
We need more trees to cool the planet, restore soils and biodiversity. Mulberry trees are fascinating: their leaves are nutritious, protein-rich, perennial, and can be harvested without repeatedly disturbing the soil. They can also be processed into leaf protein concentrate (LPC).
Could tree-based protein help transform agriculture? 🌍
Have you eaten mulberry leaves? What do you think? 💬
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The Orchard Project
Community Food Forests: A Guide to Creating Your Own
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/A-Guide-to-Creating-Community-Food-Forests.pdf#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #FoodForests #UrbanForests #Forests #EcoSystems #Community #Food #Orchards
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The Orchard Project
Community Food Forests: A Guide to Creating Your Own
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/A-Guide-to-Creating-Community-Food-Forests.pdf#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #FoodForests #UrbanForests #Forests #EcoSystems #Community #Food #Orchards
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The Orchard Project
Community Food Forests: A Guide to Creating Your Own
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/A-Guide-to-Creating-Community-Food-Forests.pdf#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #FoodForests #UrbanForests #Forests #EcoSystems #Community #Food #Orchards
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The Orchard Project
Community Food Forests: A Guide to Creating Your Own
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/A-Guide-to-Creating-Community-Food-Forests.pdf#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #FoodForests #UrbanForests #Forests #EcoSystems #Community #Food #Orchards
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The #Indigenous Roots of #RegenerativeAgriculture
“All flourishing is mutual.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassAugust 9, 2023
"While a new wave of enthusiasm has crested in recent years, regenerative agriculture is an ancient concept that originated with #IndigenousPeoples around the world more than a thousand years ago. In many Indigenous world views, humans and nature are not separate forces, but parts of a whole that need each other to thrive. Regenerative agriculture supports this by promoting farming methods that enrich the land—so it can continue to provide for present and future generations.
"Embracing #TraditionalKnowledge
"Due to the long and horrific history of #StolenLand and #colonization, the Global North often refers to #IndigenousPeoples’ culture and knowledge in the past tense. Yet today, Indigenous peoples are indisputably the best guardians of our world’s most precious #ecosystems. When you take into account that the few remaining Indigenous lands are home to 80 percent of the world’s #Biodiversity, while modern #IndustrialAgriculture is responsible for 80 percent of global #deforestation, it’s clear that Western society still desperately needs to learn what Indigenous people have known for millennia: that human beings must live in a reciprocal relationship with the Earth.
"Around the world, Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Here are just a few examples:
The art of #agroforestry
Some Indigenous communities, like the #Lenca people in #Honduras, know agroforestry simply as 'traditional technique.' Agroforestry—or the concept of growing crops in a way that mimics the forest and offers shade, protection, and nutrients—is such common practice there is no special name for it.
"Our lead for sustainable forest management, Emmanuelle Bérenger, explains the importance of Indigenous growing methods: 'By using #sustainable practices taught from one generation to another, [Indigenous peoples] actively safeguard forests, preserving biodiversity and keeping a delicate balance essential for both the environment and their own sustenance.' "
Learn more:
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/insights/the-indigenous-roots-of-regenerative-agriculture/#SolarPunkSunday #Intercropping #FoodForests #ProtectNature #ProtectBiodiversity
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The #Indigenous Roots of #RegenerativeAgriculture
“All flourishing is mutual.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassAugust 9, 2023
"While a new wave of enthusiasm has crested in recent years, regenerative agriculture is an ancient concept that originated with #IndigenousPeoples around the world more than a thousand years ago. In many Indigenous world views, humans and nature are not separate forces, but parts of a whole that need each other to thrive. Regenerative agriculture supports this by promoting farming methods that enrich the land—so it can continue to provide for present and future generations.
"Embracing #TraditionalKnowledge
"Due to the long and horrific history of #StolenLand and #colonization, the Global North often refers to #IndigenousPeoples’ culture and knowledge in the past tense. Yet today, Indigenous peoples are indisputably the best guardians of our world’s most precious #ecosystems. When you take into account that the few remaining Indigenous lands are home to 80 percent of the world’s #Biodiversity, while modern #IndustrialAgriculture is responsible for 80 percent of global #deforestation, it’s clear that Western society still desperately needs to learn what Indigenous people have known for millennia: that human beings must live in a reciprocal relationship with the Earth.
"Around the world, Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Here are just a few examples:
The art of #agroforestry
Some Indigenous communities, like the #Lenca people in #Honduras, know agroforestry simply as 'traditional technique.' Agroforestry—or the concept of growing crops in a way that mimics the forest and offers shade, protection, and nutrients—is such common practice there is no special name for it.
"Our lead for sustainable forest management, Emmanuelle Bérenger, explains the importance of Indigenous growing methods: 'By using #sustainable practices taught from one generation to another, [Indigenous peoples] actively safeguard forests, preserving biodiversity and keeping a delicate balance essential for both the environment and their own sustenance.' "
Learn more:
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/insights/the-indigenous-roots-of-regenerative-agriculture/#SolarPunkSunday #Intercropping #FoodForests #ProtectNature #ProtectBiodiversity
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The #Indigenous Roots of #RegenerativeAgriculture
“All flourishing is mutual.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassAugust 9, 2023
"While a new wave of enthusiasm has crested in recent years, regenerative agriculture is an ancient concept that originated with #IndigenousPeoples around the world more than a thousand years ago. In many Indigenous world views, humans and nature are not separate forces, but parts of a whole that need each other to thrive. Regenerative agriculture supports this by promoting farming methods that enrich the land—so it can continue to provide for present and future generations.
"Embracing #TraditionalKnowledge
"Due to the long and horrific history of #StolenLand and #colonization, the Global North often refers to #IndigenousPeoples’ culture and knowledge in the past tense. Yet today, Indigenous peoples are indisputably the best guardians of our world’s most precious #ecosystems. When you take into account that the few remaining Indigenous lands are home to 80 percent of the world’s #Biodiversity, while modern #IndustrialAgriculture is responsible for 80 percent of global #deforestation, it’s clear that Western society still desperately needs to learn what Indigenous people have known for millennia: that human beings must live in a reciprocal relationship with the Earth.
"Around the world, Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Here are just a few examples:
The art of #agroforestry
Some Indigenous communities, like the #Lenca people in #Honduras, know agroforestry simply as 'traditional technique.' Agroforestry—or the concept of growing crops in a way that mimics the forest and offers shade, protection, and nutrients—is such common practice there is no special name for it.
"Our lead for sustainable forest management, Emmanuelle Bérenger, explains the importance of Indigenous growing methods: 'By using #sustainable practices taught from one generation to another, [Indigenous peoples] actively safeguard forests, preserving biodiversity and keeping a delicate balance essential for both the environment and their own sustenance.' "
Learn more:
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/insights/the-indigenous-roots-of-regenerative-agriculture/#SolarPunkSunday #Intercropping #FoodForests #ProtectNature #ProtectBiodiversity
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The #Indigenous Roots of #RegenerativeAgriculture
“All flourishing is mutual.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassAugust 9, 2023
"While a new wave of enthusiasm has crested in recent years, regenerative agriculture is an ancient concept that originated with #IndigenousPeoples around the world more than a thousand years ago. In many Indigenous world views, humans and nature are not separate forces, but parts of a whole that need each other to thrive. Regenerative agriculture supports this by promoting farming methods that enrich the land—so it can continue to provide for present and future generations.
"Embracing #TraditionalKnowledge
"Due to the long and horrific history of #StolenLand and #colonization, the Global North often refers to #IndigenousPeoples’ culture and knowledge in the past tense. Yet today, Indigenous peoples are indisputably the best guardians of our world’s most precious #ecosystems. When you take into account that the few remaining Indigenous lands are home to 80 percent of the world’s #Biodiversity, while modern #IndustrialAgriculture is responsible for 80 percent of global #deforestation, it’s clear that Western society still desperately needs to learn what Indigenous people have known for millennia: that human beings must live in a reciprocal relationship with the Earth.
"Around the world, Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Here are just a few examples:
The art of #agroforestry
Some Indigenous communities, like the #Lenca people in #Honduras, know agroforestry simply as 'traditional technique.' Agroforestry—or the concept of growing crops in a way that mimics the forest and offers shade, protection, and nutrients—is such common practice there is no special name for it.
"Our lead for sustainable forest management, Emmanuelle Bérenger, explains the importance of Indigenous growing methods: 'By using #sustainable practices taught from one generation to another, [Indigenous peoples] actively safeguard forests, preserving biodiversity and keeping a delicate balance essential for both the environment and their own sustenance.' "
Learn more:
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/insights/the-indigenous-roots-of-regenerative-agriculture/#SolarPunkSunday #Intercropping #FoodForests #ProtectNature #ProtectBiodiversity
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Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge
Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.
By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026
Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation
"Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.
"The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.
"In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.
"Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'
"That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.
"They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.
Elders as teachers
"Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.
"None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.
" 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.
"Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."
#SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods
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Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge
Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.
By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026
Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation
"Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.
"The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.
"In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.
"Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'
"That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.
"They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.
Elders as teachers
"Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.
"None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.
" 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.
"Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."
#SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods
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Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge
Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.
By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026
Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation
"Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.
"The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.
"In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.
"Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'
"That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.
"They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.
Elders as teachers
"Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.
"None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.
" 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.
"Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."
#SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods
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Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge
Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.
By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026
Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation
"Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.
"The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.
"In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.
"Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'
"That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.
"They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.
Elders as teachers
"Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.
"None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.
" 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.
"Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."
#SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods
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From #Fairways to #FairUse: Repurposing #GolfCourses
How golf courses can be repurposed to meet the needs of people and planet
Autumn 2024
by Grace Crabtree & Dan Woolley"Back in April 2020, shortly after the UK had gone into lockdown for the first time, Guy Shrubsole, the campaigner and author of Who Owns England (2019), set out to map and investigate London’s golf courses. While a natural continuation of his wider work on land ownership, it was also given particular urgency in the moment – not least for those living in densely populated cities – as the nation began to ask questions about use of, and access to, #GreenSpace.
"The results of this research produced some surprising findings. For example, although a considerable number of golf courses in Greater London are held in private ownership, the figure is less than half, at 45%. This turns out to be only slightly larger than the number owned by councils (42%). After several decades in which councils, schools, and other public institutions have been forced to sell off green space – including school playing fields and county farms – it seems pertinent to ask why so many golf courses have remained untouched.
"Happily, there are signs of progress. In #Cheshire, the #WoodlandTrust recently purchased a former golf course, and have been busy planting trees. The vision is for the site to 'develop as native broadleaf woodland' and to link with other woodland sites as part of the larger #NorthernForest, providing green space and fighting #ClimateChange.
"And further east, on the #Lincolnshire coast, the #NationalTrust is busy converting a disused golf course – #Sandilands – to 'create new habitats for a variety of #wildlife, especially migrating birds like black-tailed #godwit, spotted #redshank and #spoonbills, along with breeding birds such as #snipe, #lapwings and #oystercatchers' This environmental mission is coupled with the social objective of providing 'a space where everyone can enjoy the benefits of being in nature.'
"More controversially, perhaps, the London-based architecture firm #RCKa has developed a proposal to build housing on an existing golf course in #Enfield, at the northern end of the city. Understandably, not everyone agrees with this vision, arguing that green space, once built upon, is lost forever. However, faced with an acute and growing housing crisis, it may be useful to ask whether some compromise solutions might begin to develop at the edges. [Yes, like housing with LOTS of Green Space, including #CommunityGardens , #FoodForests , and #WildlifeCorridors ! Problem solved!]
"What the above examples demonstrate is a growing interest in the potential for repurposing golf courses, for reasons ranging from climate change mitigation and biodiversity benefits, to providing space for housing and food growing.
"Which brings us to #Glasgow, where the #GlasgowCommunityFoodNetwork (#GCFN) are leading on a proposal to transform a disused golf course into a food growing space, with much of the land restored as a richly biodiverse space where wildlife can thrive."
Read more:
https://www.stirtoaction.com/articles/from-fairways-to-fair-use#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenSpace #LessGolfCourses #CommunitySpaces #CommunityGardens
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From #Fairways to #FairUse: Repurposing #GolfCourses
How golf courses can be repurposed to meet the needs of people and planet
Autumn 2024
by Grace Crabtree & Dan Woolley"Back in April 2020, shortly after the UK had gone into lockdown for the first time, Guy Shrubsole, the campaigner and author of Who Owns England (2019), set out to map and investigate London’s golf courses. While a natural continuation of his wider work on land ownership, it was also given particular urgency in the moment – not least for those living in densely populated cities – as the nation began to ask questions about use of, and access to, #GreenSpace.
"The results of this research produced some surprising findings. For example, although a considerable number of golf courses in Greater London are held in private ownership, the figure is less than half, at 45%. This turns out to be only slightly larger than the number owned by councils (42%). After several decades in which councils, schools, and other public institutions have been forced to sell off green space – including school playing fields and county farms – it seems pertinent to ask why so many golf courses have remained untouched.
"Happily, there are signs of progress. In #Cheshire, the #WoodlandTrust recently purchased a former golf course, and have been busy planting trees. The vision is for the site to 'develop as native broadleaf woodland' and to link with other woodland sites as part of the larger #NorthernForest, providing green space and fighting #ClimateChange.
"And further east, on the #Lincolnshire coast, the #NationalTrust is busy converting a disused golf course – #Sandilands – to 'create new habitats for a variety of #wildlife, especially migrating birds like black-tailed #godwit, spotted #redshank and #spoonbills, along with breeding birds such as #snipe, #lapwings and #oystercatchers' This environmental mission is coupled with the social objective of providing 'a space where everyone can enjoy the benefits of being in nature.'
"More controversially, perhaps, the London-based architecture firm #RCKa has developed a proposal to build housing on an existing golf course in #Enfield, at the northern end of the city. Understandably, not everyone agrees with this vision, arguing that green space, once built upon, is lost forever. However, faced with an acute and growing housing crisis, it may be useful to ask whether some compromise solutions might begin to develop at the edges. [Yes, like housing with LOTS of Green Space, including #CommunityGardens , #FoodForests , and #WildlifeCorridors ! Problem solved!]
"What the above examples demonstrate is a growing interest in the potential for repurposing golf courses, for reasons ranging from climate change mitigation and biodiversity benefits, to providing space for housing and food growing.
"Which brings us to #Glasgow, where the #GlasgowCommunityFoodNetwork (#GCFN) are leading on a proposal to transform a disused golf course into a food growing space, with much of the land restored as a richly biodiverse space where wildlife can thrive."
Read more:
https://www.stirtoaction.com/articles/from-fairways-to-fair-use#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenSpace #LessGolfCourses #CommunitySpaces #CommunityGardens
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From #Fairways to #FairUse: Repurposing #GolfCourses
How golf courses can be repurposed to meet the needs of people and planet
Autumn 2024
by Grace Crabtree & Dan Woolley"Back in April 2020, shortly after the UK had gone into lockdown for the first time, Guy Shrubsole, the campaigner and author of Who Owns England (2019), set out to map and investigate London’s golf courses. While a natural continuation of his wider work on land ownership, it was also given particular urgency in the moment – not least for those living in densely populated cities – as the nation began to ask questions about use of, and access to, #GreenSpace.
"The results of this research produced some surprising findings. For example, although a considerable number of golf courses in Greater London are held in private ownership, the figure is less than half, at 45%. This turns out to be only slightly larger than the number owned by councils (42%). After several decades in which councils, schools, and other public institutions have been forced to sell off green space – including school playing fields and county farms – it seems pertinent to ask why so many golf courses have remained untouched.
"Happily, there are signs of progress. In #Cheshire, the #WoodlandTrust recently purchased a former golf course, and have been busy planting trees. The vision is for the site to 'develop as native broadleaf woodland' and to link with other woodland sites as part of the larger #NorthernForest, providing green space and fighting #ClimateChange.
"And further east, on the #Lincolnshire coast, the #NationalTrust is busy converting a disused golf course – #Sandilands – to 'create new habitats for a variety of #wildlife, especially migrating birds like black-tailed #godwit, spotted #redshank and #spoonbills, along with breeding birds such as #snipe, #lapwings and #oystercatchers' This environmental mission is coupled with the social objective of providing 'a space where everyone can enjoy the benefits of being in nature.'
"More controversially, perhaps, the London-based architecture firm #RCKa has developed a proposal to build housing on an existing golf course in #Enfield, at the northern end of the city. Understandably, not everyone agrees with this vision, arguing that green space, once built upon, is lost forever. However, faced with an acute and growing housing crisis, it may be useful to ask whether some compromise solutions might begin to develop at the edges. [Yes, like housing with LOTS of Green Space, including #CommunityGardens , #FoodForests , and #WildlifeCorridors ! Problem solved!]
"What the above examples demonstrate is a growing interest in the potential for repurposing golf courses, for reasons ranging from climate change mitigation and biodiversity benefits, to providing space for housing and food growing.
"Which brings us to #Glasgow, where the #GlasgowCommunityFoodNetwork (#GCFN) are leading on a proposal to transform a disused golf course into a food growing space, with much of the land restored as a richly biodiverse space where wildlife can thrive."
Read more:
https://www.stirtoaction.com/articles/from-fairways-to-fair-use#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenSpace #LessGolfCourses #CommunitySpaces #CommunityGardens
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From #Fairways to #FairUse: Repurposing #GolfCourses
How golf courses can be repurposed to meet the needs of people and planet
Autumn 2024
by Grace Crabtree & Dan Woolley"Back in April 2020, shortly after the UK had gone into lockdown for the first time, Guy Shrubsole, the campaigner and author of Who Owns England (2019), set out to map and investigate London’s golf courses. While a natural continuation of his wider work on land ownership, it was also given particular urgency in the moment – not least for those living in densely populated cities – as the nation began to ask questions about use of, and access to, #GreenSpace.
"The results of this research produced some surprising findings. For example, although a considerable number of golf courses in Greater London are held in private ownership, the figure is less than half, at 45%. This turns out to be only slightly larger than the number owned by councils (42%). After several decades in which councils, schools, and other public institutions have been forced to sell off green space – including school playing fields and county farms – it seems pertinent to ask why so many golf courses have remained untouched.
"Happily, there are signs of progress. In #Cheshire, the #WoodlandTrust recently purchased a former golf course, and have been busy planting trees. The vision is for the site to 'develop as native broadleaf woodland' and to link with other woodland sites as part of the larger #NorthernForest, providing green space and fighting #ClimateChange.
"And further east, on the #Lincolnshire coast, the #NationalTrust is busy converting a disused golf course – #Sandilands – to 'create new habitats for a variety of #wildlife, especially migrating birds like black-tailed #godwit, spotted #redshank and #spoonbills, along with breeding birds such as #snipe, #lapwings and #oystercatchers' This environmental mission is coupled with the social objective of providing 'a space where everyone can enjoy the benefits of being in nature.'
"More controversially, perhaps, the London-based architecture firm #RCKa has developed a proposal to build housing on an existing golf course in #Enfield, at the northern end of the city. Understandably, not everyone agrees with this vision, arguing that green space, once built upon, is lost forever. However, faced with an acute and growing housing crisis, it may be useful to ask whether some compromise solutions might begin to develop at the edges. [Yes, like housing with LOTS of Green Space, including #CommunityGardens , #FoodForests , and #WildlifeCorridors ! Problem solved!]
"What the above examples demonstrate is a growing interest in the potential for repurposing golf courses, for reasons ranging from climate change mitigation and biodiversity benefits, to providing space for housing and food growing.
"Which brings us to #Glasgow, where the #GlasgowCommunityFoodNetwork (#GCFN) are leading on a proposal to transform a disused golf course into a food growing space, with much of the land restored as a richly biodiverse space where wildlife can thrive."
Read more:
https://www.stirtoaction.com/articles/from-fairways-to-fair-use#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenSpace #LessGolfCourses #CommunitySpaces #CommunityGardens
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The “ #ForestGardens ” That Could Help #Canada’s #FirstNations Reclaim Their Land
For 3,000 years, the Sts’ailes Nation cultivated and nurtured plants for survival. Now researchers’ work about those forest gardens is being used to support a legal land claim by Canada’s Sts’ailes Nation against the province of British Columbia.
by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024
Excerpt: "The people of the Sts’ailes Nation have lived for 3,000 years on the banks of the Harrison River in #BritishColumbia, its icy blue waters framed by mountains and fir trees.
Evidence of their long presence on this land is visible in the remaining crabapple and nut trees that were once part of the nation’s forest gardens. What’s left today are some gnarled trees and overgrown bushes hidden among other old forest growth of pines and spruce. But these gardens were once full of plants carefully selected and nurtured to provide an important means of subsistence.Forest gardens were a method of agriculture in which practitioners cleared the land around or near villages, planted crops, and managed with agricultural methods like controlled burns and fertilization to increase the productivity of the plants. Traces of species like #PacificCrabapple, #BeakedHazelnut, #WildCherry, and others have been found in recent years — in some cases, still growing even more than a century after they were tended. They would have been selected for their nutritional value and, in some examples like the crabapple, long-term storage.
For anthropologists, ethnologists, and other scientists, the existence of these gardens belies the long-held hunter-gatherer theory that maintained that the region’s #IndigenousPeoples didn’t change and nurture their lands. Instead, experts now believe this method of #agriculture and land manipulation helped communities like the Sts’ailes thrive.
The traditional Sts’ailes territory of roughly 802,150 acres (324,620 hectares) — their current reserve is about 2,260 acres — was able to sustain its inhabitants through both good and difficult times because of its rich resources and the deep connection the community had to the land, said Kelsey Charlie Sr., who sits on the Sts’ailes Council, and whose traditional name is Teixweltel. The word lhemeqwatel, he said, 'means that you can get anything off of it, that it’s going to provide everything for you. And that includes those forest gardens and other cultivated things that they used for survival.'
Legal land claim
The land that was home to the Sts’ailes Nation is just one area where there is evidence that forest gardens were created and nurtured by communities of #FirstNations, the collective name given to most of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. While there is not a definitive catalog of the forest gardens, there are remains of them up and down the coast of British Columbia — some known, some still used by communities, some being rediscovered."
Read more:
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/indigenous-forest-gardens-land-claim/#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #StsailesNation #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory
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The “ #ForestGardens ” That Could Help #Canada’s #FirstNations Reclaim Their Land
For 3,000 years, the Sts’ailes Nation cultivated and nurtured plants for survival. Now researchers’ work about those forest gardens is being used to support a legal land claim by Canada’s Sts’ailes Nation against the province of British Columbia.
by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024
Excerpt: "The people of the Sts’ailes Nation have lived for 3,000 years on the banks of the Harrison River in #BritishColumbia, its icy blue waters framed by mountains and fir trees.
Evidence of their long presence on this land is visible in the remaining crabapple and nut trees that were once part of the nation’s forest gardens. What’s left today are some gnarled trees and overgrown bushes hidden among other old forest growth of pines and spruce. But these gardens were once full of plants carefully selected and nurtured to provide an important means of subsistence.Forest gardens were a method of agriculture in which practitioners cleared the land around or near villages, planted crops, and managed with agricultural methods like controlled burns and fertilization to increase the productivity of the plants. Traces of species like #PacificCrabapple, #BeakedHazelnut, #WildCherry, and others have been found in recent years — in some cases, still growing even more than a century after they were tended. They would have been selected for their nutritional value and, in some examples like the crabapple, long-term storage.
For anthropologists, ethnologists, and other scientists, the existence of these gardens belies the long-held hunter-gatherer theory that maintained that the region’s #IndigenousPeoples didn’t change and nurture their lands. Instead, experts now believe this method of #agriculture and land manipulation helped communities like the Sts’ailes thrive.
The traditional Sts’ailes territory of roughly 802,150 acres (324,620 hectares) — their current reserve is about 2,260 acres — was able to sustain its inhabitants through both good and difficult times because of its rich resources and the deep connection the community had to the land, said Kelsey Charlie Sr., who sits on the Sts’ailes Council, and whose traditional name is Teixweltel. The word lhemeqwatel, he said, 'means that you can get anything off of it, that it’s going to provide everything for you. And that includes those forest gardens and other cultivated things that they used for survival.'
Legal land claim
The land that was home to the Sts’ailes Nation is just one area where there is evidence that forest gardens were created and nurtured by communities of #FirstNations, the collective name given to most of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. While there is not a definitive catalog of the forest gardens, there are remains of them up and down the coast of British Columbia — some known, some still used by communities, some being rediscovered."
Read more:
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/indigenous-forest-gardens-land-claim/#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #StsailesNation #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory
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The “ #ForestGardens ” That Could Help #Canada’s #FirstNations Reclaim Their Land
For 3,000 years, the Sts’ailes Nation cultivated and nurtured plants for survival. Now researchers’ work about those forest gardens is being used to support a legal land claim by Canada’s Sts’ailes Nation against the province of British Columbia.
by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024
Excerpt: "The people of the Sts’ailes Nation have lived for 3,000 years on the banks of the Harrison River in #BritishColumbia, its icy blue waters framed by mountains and fir trees.
Evidence of their long presence on this land is visible in the remaining crabapple and nut trees that were once part of the nation’s forest gardens. What’s left today are some gnarled trees and overgrown bushes hidden among other old forest growth of pines and spruce. But these gardens were once full of plants carefully selected and nurtured to provide an important means of subsistence.Forest gardens were a method of agriculture in which practitioners cleared the land around or near villages, planted crops, and managed with agricultural methods like controlled burns and fertilization to increase the productivity of the plants. Traces of species like #PacificCrabapple, #BeakedHazelnut, #WildCherry, and others have been found in recent years — in some cases, still growing even more than a century after they were tended. They would have been selected for their nutritional value and, in some examples like the crabapple, long-term storage.
For anthropologists, ethnologists, and other scientists, the existence of these gardens belies the long-held hunter-gatherer theory that maintained that the region’s #IndigenousPeoples didn’t change and nurture their lands. Instead, experts now believe this method of #agriculture and land manipulation helped communities like the Sts’ailes thrive.
The traditional Sts’ailes territory of roughly 802,150 acres (324,620 hectares) — their current reserve is about 2,260 acres — was able to sustain its inhabitants through both good and difficult times because of its rich resources and the deep connection the community had to the land, said Kelsey Charlie Sr., who sits on the Sts’ailes Council, and whose traditional name is Teixweltel. The word lhemeqwatel, he said, 'means that you can get anything off of it, that it’s going to provide everything for you. And that includes those forest gardens and other cultivated things that they used for survival.'
Legal land claim
The land that was home to the Sts’ailes Nation is just one area where there is evidence that forest gardens were created and nurtured by communities of #FirstNations, the collective name given to most of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. While there is not a definitive catalog of the forest gardens, there are remains of them up and down the coast of British Columbia — some known, some still used by communities, some being rediscovered."
Read more:
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/indigenous-forest-gardens-land-claim/#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #StsailesNation #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory
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The “ #ForestGardens ” That Could Help #Canada’s #FirstNations Reclaim Their Land
For 3,000 years, the Sts’ailes Nation cultivated and nurtured plants for survival. Now researchers’ work about those forest gardens is being used to support a legal land claim by Canada’s Sts’ailes Nation against the province of British Columbia.
by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024
Excerpt: "The people of the Sts’ailes Nation have lived for 3,000 years on the banks of the Harrison River in #BritishColumbia, its icy blue waters framed by mountains and fir trees.
Evidence of their long presence on this land is visible in the remaining crabapple and nut trees that were once part of the nation’s forest gardens. What’s left today are some gnarled trees and overgrown bushes hidden among other old forest growth of pines and spruce. But these gardens were once full of plants carefully selected and nurtured to provide an important means of subsistence.Forest gardens were a method of agriculture in which practitioners cleared the land around or near villages, planted crops, and managed with agricultural methods like controlled burns and fertilization to increase the productivity of the plants. Traces of species like #PacificCrabapple, #BeakedHazelnut, #WildCherry, and others have been found in recent years — in some cases, still growing even more than a century after they were tended. They would have been selected for their nutritional value and, in some examples like the crabapple, long-term storage.
For anthropologists, ethnologists, and other scientists, the existence of these gardens belies the long-held hunter-gatherer theory that maintained that the region’s #IndigenousPeoples didn’t change and nurture their lands. Instead, experts now believe this method of #agriculture and land manipulation helped communities like the Sts’ailes thrive.
The traditional Sts’ailes territory of roughly 802,150 acres (324,620 hectares) — their current reserve is about 2,260 acres — was able to sustain its inhabitants through both good and difficult times because of its rich resources and the deep connection the community had to the land, said Kelsey Charlie Sr., who sits on the Sts’ailes Council, and whose traditional name is Teixweltel. The word lhemeqwatel, he said, 'means that you can get anything off of it, that it’s going to provide everything for you. And that includes those forest gardens and other cultivated things that they used for survival.'
Legal land claim
The land that was home to the Sts’ailes Nation is just one area where there is evidence that forest gardens were created and nurtured by communities of #FirstNations, the collective name given to most of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. While there is not a definitive catalog of the forest gardens, there are remains of them up and down the coast of British Columbia — some known, some still used by communities, some being rediscovered."
Read more:
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/indigenous-forest-gardens-land-claim/#SolarPunkSunday #LandBack #StsailesNation #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory
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Boston Food Forest 🌱
"We are a coalition of neighbors working to transform vacant lots into locally-run, edible, public parks protected by our land trust."
https://www.bostonfoodforest.org/#SolarPunkSunday #BostonFoodForest #FoodForests #Food #Forests #FoodSecurity #FoodPlants #ForestGardens #Community #Gardens #Gardening #CommunityGardening
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Boston Food Forest 🌱
"We are a coalition of neighbors working to transform vacant lots into locally-run, edible, public parks protected by our land trust."
https://www.bostonfoodforest.org/#SolarPunkSunday #BostonFoodForest #FoodForests #Food #Forests #FoodSecurity #FoodPlants #ForestGardens #Community #Gardens #Gardening #CommunityGardening
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Boston Food Forest 🌱
"We are a coalition of neighbors working to transform vacant lots into locally-run, edible, public parks protected by our land trust."
https://www.bostonfoodforest.org/#SolarPunkSunday #BostonFoodForest #FoodForests #Food #Forests #FoodSecurity #FoodPlants #ForestGardens #Community #Gardens #Gardening #CommunityGardening
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Boston Food Forest 🌱
"We are a coalition of neighbors working to transform vacant lots into locally-run, edible, public parks protected by our land trust."
https://www.bostonfoodforest.org/#SolarPunkSunday #BostonFoodForest #FoodForests #Food #Forests #FoodSecurity #FoodPlants #ForestGardens #Community #Gardens #Gardening #CommunityGardening