#forestgardens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forestgardens, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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
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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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The #Moroccan #FoodForest That Inspired an #AgriculturalRevolution
These ancient forest gardens may be more relevant than ever.
by Eric J. Wallace April 1, 2019
"It was 1975 and Geoff Lawton was wintering with friends in Morocco. Camping on beaches north of Agadir, they’d been surfing for weeks when locals told them about Paradise Valley. Located along the Tamraght River in the High Atlas Mountains, it promised 5,200-foot vistas, blue-green waterfalls, and lush, rainforest-like vegetation.
"Lawton, then 21, was on his first trip outside the U.K. 'Tourists had yet to ‘discover’ the area, so the culture was very much preserved,' he says. 'For me, it was like going back to Biblical times.'
"The dirt road to the Valley climbed through a barren, arid landscape into rural hills studded with mud brick homes. Twenty kilometers in, the group stopped at the tiny village of Inraren for directions. Lawton went to relieve himself in a roadside wood.
" 'I remember thinking it was odd that this lush, green forest should be bursting from the desert,' he says.
"Stepping inside, things got stranger. The air felt cool, almost misty. Growing in the shade of tall date palms were trees, vines, and shrubs bearing bananas, tamarinds, oranges, figs, guavas, pomegranates, lemons, limes, mulberries, carobs, quince, grapes, and other fruits and nuts. Following a footpath through the grassy understory past groves of olive and argan trees, Lawton discovered a cluster of fenced-in vegetable and herb gardens—most about a quarter-acre in size. Here and there, goats were tethered to posts. Chickens clucked through the underbrush and roosted in trees. Gazing down a leafy corridor, he spotted a man leading a donkey. Its saddlebags brimmed with produce.
" 'I felt like I’d wandered into some kind of ancient organism,' says Lawton. “I had goosebumps all over.'
"Totaling about 65 acres, the food forest was a remnant of one of the world’s oldest #sustainable systems of agriculture. While its origins have been lost to history, scientists agree it is at least many centuries old. Some, including Lawton, date its establishment to 2,000 years ago. When asked about the forest’s age, villagers shrug.
" 'I have no idea how old it is or when our ancestors first began gardening here,' says 45-year-old Abdelmajid Ziyani, a construction worker and member of a local argan and olive oil cooperative. 'But I know it has been here for centuries.' "
Related video: "The 2000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco - Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-b_C7a_es
Read more:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-permaculture-food-forests#SolarPunkSunday #ForestGardens #UndergroundSprings #Permaculture #AncientFoodForests #SustainableAgriculture #History #AgricultureHistory #Histodon #TraditionalAgriculture
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The #Moroccan #FoodForest That Inspired an #AgriculturalRevolution
These ancient forest gardens may be more relevant than ever.
by Eric J. Wallace April 1, 2019
"It was 1975 and Geoff Lawton was wintering with friends in Morocco. Camping on beaches north of Agadir, they’d been surfing for weeks when locals told them about Paradise Valley. Located along the Tamraght River in the High Atlas Mountains, it promised 5,200-foot vistas, blue-green waterfalls, and lush, rainforest-like vegetation.
"Lawton, then 21, was on his first trip outside the U.K. 'Tourists had yet to ‘discover’ the area, so the culture was very much preserved,' he says. 'For me, it was like going back to Biblical times.'
"The dirt road to the Valley climbed through a barren, arid landscape into rural hills studded with mud brick homes. Twenty kilometers in, the group stopped at the tiny village of Inraren for directions. Lawton went to relieve himself in a roadside wood.
" 'I remember thinking it was odd that this lush, green forest should be bursting from the desert,' he says.
"Stepping inside, things got stranger. The air felt cool, almost misty. Growing in the shade of tall date palms were trees, vines, and shrubs bearing bananas, tamarinds, oranges, figs, guavas, pomegranates, lemons, limes, mulberries, carobs, quince, grapes, and other fruits and nuts. Following a footpath through the grassy understory past groves of olive and argan trees, Lawton discovered a cluster of fenced-in vegetable and herb gardens—most about a quarter-acre in size. Here and there, goats were tethered to posts. Chickens clucked through the underbrush and roosted in trees. Gazing down a leafy corridor, he spotted a man leading a donkey. Its saddlebags brimmed with produce.
" 'I felt like I’d wandered into some kind of ancient organism,' says Lawton. “I had goosebumps all over.'
"Totaling about 65 acres, the food forest was a remnant of one of the world’s oldest #sustainable systems of agriculture. While its origins have been lost to history, scientists agree it is at least many centuries old. Some, including Lawton, date its establishment to 2,000 years ago. When asked about the forest’s age, villagers shrug.
" 'I have no idea how old it is or when our ancestors first began gardening here,' says 45-year-old Abdelmajid Ziyani, a construction worker and member of a local argan and olive oil cooperative. 'But I know it has been here for centuries.' "
Related video: "The 2000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco - Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-b_C7a_es
Read more:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-permaculture-food-forests#SolarPunkSunday #ForestGardens #UndergroundSprings #Permaculture #AncientFoodForests #SustainableAgriculture #History #AgricultureHistory #Histodon #TraditionalAgriculture
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The more I read about India's Kerala province, the more I want to go there. Anyone been there?
"Here, rare and endemic species such as Impatiens jerdoniae, which are either endangered or fast disappearing in the wild, thrive. According to Joseph, more than 260 fern species exist in southern India, of which more than 200 are grown in the sanctuary. Similarly, 110 of the 140 species of Impatiens – a genus of more than 1,000 flowering plants – found in southern India are present at the sanctuary.
While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."
#biodiversity #india #keralasuccessstory #kerala #forestgardens #forestgardening
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Getting to know our food, and how being good stewards of the land can help us eat better
by Katharine A. Jameson, Vermont Country magazine
03/01/2024Excerpt: "Learning from the land
"Chief Stevens points out that it’s all in one’s perspective. He gives the example of #dandelions. 'You might look at them as a weed but I might look at them as a food source,' he explains, noting the wine and greens for which they’re used.
"When Europeans arrived in what they later named Vermont, they saw the lush #ForestGardens Natives had fostered, but didn’t recognize that it had been cultivated. 'The sophistication of the agriculture system was so high that people couldn’t see it at all. It just looked like abundant wild lands, but really they were so abundant because of our deep connection and long-term #stewardship of them,' #Abenaki tribal member, #JohnHunt describes in a new, short film posted to YouTube about Abenaki food systems.
"What can we learn from these growth practices? Professor Tiana Baca of Sterling College explains in this film: 'Nature doesn’t grow in #monocrops.' She notes that Native people’s lush gardens maximized yields by #CompanionPlanting crops like the #ThreeSisters. 'The three sisters is a companion planting group of corn, beans and squash. They’re plants that grow together and support each other. The corn is growing up, it’s providing this living trellis. The beans use that to climb on. The beans are then fixing nitrogen and supporting the growth of the corn and then the squash plant kind of sprawls out and creates this living mulch. All of them working together makes all of them produce better.'
"Respect runs deep in the Abenaki tradition. From the elders and ancestors from whom they learn to the food and animals they consume, they bless the animals they dispatch with tobacco and hold sacred the chain of custody of each of their seeds.
" 'We have to have some foresight about it. Treating the land with respect and not looking at it always through our need, but as a collective community need. In the old days we used to look at community more than individual needs.' Stevens discusses the Native mentality that land, contrary to the European way, is to be shared by all creatures, not owned.
" 'There is hope,' Chief Stevens says. 'There is a way to reconnect and change the outcomes of what is happening. But the only way to do that is to put the effort, time and resources into connecting with us, the native people and others to try to remember that historical knowledge of connection to our land, our animals and our wild food sources. The forests and the wild foods sustained our people for thousands of years. Why would we not think it wouldn’t do that now?'
"The Chief set out a few things we can all do to help save the planet."
https://vermontcountry.com/2024/03/01/abenaki-food-systems-native-stewardship/
#NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanFood #FoodSovereignty #FoodForests #Stewardship #RelationshipToPlace #SolarpunkSunday #KnowWhereYourFoodComesFrom
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Getting to know our food, and how being good stewards of the land can help us eat better
by Katharine A. Jameson, Vermont Country magazine
03/01/2024Excerpt: "Learning from the land
"Chief Stevens points out that it’s all in one’s perspective. He gives the example of #dandelions. 'You might look at them as a weed but I might look at them as a food source,' he explains, noting the wine and greens for which they’re used.
"When Europeans arrived in what they later named Vermont, they saw the lush #ForestGardens Natives had fostered, but didn’t recognize that it had been cultivated. 'The sophistication of the agriculture system was so high that people couldn’t see it at all. It just looked like abundant wild lands, but really they were so abundant because of our deep connection and long-term #stewardship of them,' #Abenaki tribal member, #JohnHunt describes in a new, short film posted to YouTube about Abenaki food systems.
"What can we learn from these growth practices? Professor Tiana Baca of Sterling College explains in this film: 'Nature doesn’t grow in #monocrops.' She notes that Native people’s lush gardens maximized yields by #CompanionPlanting crops like the #ThreeSisters. 'The three sisters is a companion planting group of corn, beans and squash. They’re plants that grow together and support each other. The corn is growing up, it’s providing this living trellis. The beans use that to climb on. The beans are then fixing nitrogen and supporting the growth of the corn and then the squash plant kind of sprawls out and creates this living mulch. All of them working together makes all of them produce better.'
"Respect runs deep in the Abenaki tradition. From the elders and ancestors from whom they learn to the food and animals they consume, they bless the animals they dispatch with tobacco and hold sacred the chain of custody of each of their seeds.
" 'We have to have some foresight about it. Treating the land with respect and not looking at it always through our need, but as a collective community need. In the old days we used to look at community more than individual needs.' Stevens discusses the Native mentality that land, contrary to the European way, is to be shared by all creatures, not owned.
" 'There is hope,' Chief Stevens says. 'There is a way to reconnect and change the outcomes of what is happening. But the only way to do that is to put the effort, time and resources into connecting with us, the native people and others to try to remember that historical knowledge of connection to our land, our animals and our wild food sources. The forests and the wild foods sustained our people for thousands of years. Why would we not think it wouldn’t do that now?'
"The Chief set out a few things we can all do to help save the planet."
https://vermontcountry.com/2024/03/01/abenaki-food-systems-native-stewardship/
#NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanFood #FoodSovereignty #FoodForests #Stewardship #RelationshipToPlace #SolarpunkSunday #KnowWhereYourFoodComesFrom
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Getting to know our food, and how being good stewards of the land can help us eat better
by Katharine A. Jameson, Vermont Country magazine
03/01/2024Excerpt: "Learning from the land
"Chief Stevens points out that it’s all in one’s perspective. He gives the example of #dandelions. 'You might look at them as a weed but I might look at them as a food source,' he explains, noting the wine and greens for which they’re used.
"When Europeans arrived in what they later named Vermont, they saw the lush #ForestGardens Natives had fostered, but didn’t recognize that it had been cultivated. 'The sophistication of the agriculture system was so high that people couldn’t see it at all. It just looked like abundant wild lands, but really they were so abundant because of our deep connection and long-term #stewardship of them,' #Abenaki tribal member, #JohnHunt describes in a new, short film posted to YouTube about Abenaki food systems.
"What can we learn from these growth practices? Professor Tiana Baca of Sterling College explains in this film: 'Nature doesn’t grow in #monocrops.' She notes that Native people’s lush gardens maximized yields by #CompanionPlanting crops like the #ThreeSisters. 'The three sisters is a companion planting group of corn, beans and squash. They’re plants that grow together and support each other. The corn is growing up, it’s providing this living trellis. The beans use that to climb on. The beans are then fixing nitrogen and supporting the growth of the corn and then the squash plant kind of sprawls out and creates this living mulch. All of them working together makes all of them produce better.'
"Respect runs deep in the Abenaki tradition. From the elders and ancestors from whom they learn to the food and animals they consume, they bless the animals they dispatch with tobacco and hold sacred the chain of custody of each of their seeds.
" 'We have to have some foresight about it. Treating the land with respect and not looking at it always through our need, but as a collective community need. In the old days we used to look at community more than individual needs.' Stevens discusses the Native mentality that land, contrary to the European way, is to be shared by all creatures, not owned.
" 'There is hope,' Chief Stevens says. 'There is a way to reconnect and change the outcomes of what is happening. But the only way to do that is to put the effort, time and resources into connecting with us, the native people and others to try to remember that historical knowledge of connection to our land, our animals and our wild food sources. The forests and the wild foods sustained our people for thousands of years. Why would we not think it wouldn’t do that now?'
"The Chief set out a few things we can all do to help save the planet."
https://vermontcountry.com/2024/03/01/abenaki-food-systems-native-stewardship/
#NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanFood #FoodSovereignty #FoodForests #Stewardship #RelationshipToPlace #SolarpunkSunday #KnowWhereYourFoodComesFrom
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Getting to know our food, and how being good stewards of the land can help us eat better
by Katharine A. Jameson, Vermont Country magazine
03/01/2024Excerpt: "Learning from the land
"Chief Stevens points out that it’s all in one’s perspective. He gives the example of #dandelions. 'You might look at them as a weed but I might look at them as a food source,' he explains, noting the wine and greens for which they’re used.
"When Europeans arrived in what they later named Vermont, they saw the lush #ForestGardens Natives had fostered, but didn’t recognize that it had been cultivated. 'The sophistication of the agriculture system was so high that people couldn’t see it at all. It just looked like abundant wild lands, but really they were so abundant because of our deep connection and long-term #stewardship of them,' #Abenaki tribal member, #JohnHunt describes in a new, short film posted to YouTube about Abenaki food systems.
"What can we learn from these growth practices? Professor Tiana Baca of Sterling College explains in this film: 'Nature doesn’t grow in #monocrops.' She notes that Native people’s lush gardens maximized yields by #CompanionPlanting crops like the #ThreeSisters. 'The three sisters is a companion planting group of corn, beans and squash. They’re plants that grow together and support each other. The corn is growing up, it’s providing this living trellis. The beans use that to climb on. The beans are then fixing nitrogen and supporting the growth of the corn and then the squash plant kind of sprawls out and creates this living mulch. All of them working together makes all of them produce better.'
"Respect runs deep in the Abenaki tradition. From the elders and ancestors from whom they learn to the food and animals they consume, they bless the animals they dispatch with tobacco and hold sacred the chain of custody of each of their seeds.
" 'We have to have some foresight about it. Treating the land with respect and not looking at it always through our need, but as a collective community need. In the old days we used to look at community more than individual needs.' Stevens discusses the Native mentality that land, contrary to the European way, is to be shared by all creatures, not owned.
" 'There is hope,' Chief Stevens says. 'There is a way to reconnect and change the outcomes of what is happening. But the only way to do that is to put the effort, time and resources into connecting with us, the native people and others to try to remember that historical knowledge of connection to our land, our animals and our wild food sources. The forests and the wild foods sustained our people for thousands of years. Why would we not think it wouldn’t do that now?'
"The Chief set out a few things we can all do to help save the planet."
https://vermontcountry.com/2024/03/01/abenaki-food-systems-native-stewardship/
#NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanFood #FoodSovereignty #FoodForests #Stewardship #RelationshipToPlace #SolarpunkSunday #KnowWhereYourFoodComesFrom
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Getting to know our food, and how being good stewards of the land can help us eat better
by Katharine A. Jameson, Vermont Country magazine
03/01/2024Excerpt: "Learning from the land
"Chief Stevens points out that it’s all in one’s perspective. He gives the example of #dandelions. 'You might look at them as a weed but I might look at them as a food source,' he explains, noting the wine and greens for which they’re used.
"When Europeans arrived in what they later named Vermont, they saw the lush #ForestGardens Natives had fostered, but didn’t recognize that it had been cultivated. 'The sophistication of the agriculture system was so high that people couldn’t see it at all. It just looked like abundant wild lands, but really they were so abundant because of our deep connection and long-term #stewardship of them,' #Abenaki tribal member, #JohnHunt describes in a new, short film posted to YouTube about Abenaki food systems.
"What can we learn from these growth practices? Professor Tiana Baca of Sterling College explains in this film: 'Nature doesn’t grow in #monocrops.' She notes that Native people’s lush gardens maximized yields by #CompanionPlanting crops like the #ThreeSisters. 'The three sisters is a companion planting group of corn, beans and squash. They’re plants that grow together and support each other. The corn is growing up, it’s providing this living trellis. The beans use that to climb on. The beans are then fixing nitrogen and supporting the growth of the corn and then the squash plant kind of sprawls out and creates this living mulch. All of them working together makes all of them produce better.'
"Respect runs deep in the Abenaki tradition. From the elders and ancestors from whom they learn to the food and animals they consume, they bless the animals they dispatch with tobacco and hold sacred the chain of custody of each of their seeds.
" 'We have to have some foresight about it. Treating the land with respect and not looking at it always through our need, but as a collective community need. In the old days we used to look at community more than individual needs.' Stevens discusses the Native mentality that land, contrary to the European way, is to be shared by all creatures, not owned.
" 'There is hope,' Chief Stevens says. 'There is a way to reconnect and change the outcomes of what is happening. But the only way to do that is to put the effort, time and resources into connecting with us, the native people and others to try to remember that historical knowledge of connection to our land, our animals and our wild food sources. The forests and the wild foods sustained our people for thousands of years. Why would we not think it wouldn’t do that now?'
"The Chief set out a few things we can all do to help save the planet."
https://vermontcountry.com/2024/03/01/abenaki-food-systems-native-stewardship/
#NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanFood #FoodSovereignty #FoodForests #Stewardship #RelationshipToPlace #SolarpunkSunday #KnowWhereYourFoodComesFrom
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"#BridgehouseGardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.
"Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, #TheWinsladeBarn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing practical skills, built community and created space for wildlife."
https://transitiontogether.org.uk/vacant-site-to-community-ecosystem/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Resiliency #DIY #ForestGardens #CommunitySpace #UK #SouthLondonUK -
"#BridgehouseGardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.
"Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, #TheWinsladeBarn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing practical skills, built community and created space for wildlife."
https://transitiontogether.org.uk/vacant-site-to-community-ecosystem/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Resiliency #DIY #ForestGardens #CommunitySpace #UK #SouthLondonUK -
"#BridgehouseGardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.
"Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, #TheWinsladeBarn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing practical skills, built community and created space for wildlife."
https://transitiontogether.org.uk/vacant-site-to-community-ecosystem/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Resiliency #DIY #ForestGardens #CommunitySpace #UK #SouthLondonUK -
"#BridgehouseGardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.
"Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, #TheWinsladeBarn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing practical skills, built community and created space for wildlife."
https://transitiontogether.org.uk/vacant-site-to-community-ecosystem/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Resiliency #DIY #ForestGardens #CommunitySpace #UK #SouthLondonUK -
"#BridgehouseGardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.
"Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, #TheWinsladeBarn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing practical skills, built community and created space for wildlife."
https://transitiontogether.org.uk/vacant-site-to-community-ecosystem/
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Resiliency #DIY #ForestGardens #CommunitySpace #UK #SouthLondonUK -
Ooooh...! And more from #FarmingTheWoods author Steve Gabriel!
INHABIT: "Farming the Woods" with Steve Gabriel
"‘Inhabit’ is a documentary film exploring the idea of conscience inhabitance through permaculture.
Check out our site here at www.InhabitFilm.com
"In this short extract from the upcoming film we look at Steve Gabriel's forest farm."
Watch:
https://vimeo.com/110729096#ForestGardens #Forests #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems -
Ooooh...! And more from #FarmingTheWoods author Steve Gabriel!
INHABIT: "Farming the Woods" with Steve Gabriel
"‘Inhabit’ is a documentary film exploring the idea of conscience inhabitance through permaculture.
Check out our site here at www.InhabitFilm.com
"In this short extract from the upcoming film we look at Steve Gabriel's forest farm."
Watch:
https://vimeo.com/110729096#ForestGardens #Forests #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems -
Ooooh...! And more from #FarmingTheWoods author Steve Gabriel!
INHABIT: "Farming the Woods" with Steve Gabriel
"‘Inhabit’ is a documentary film exploring the idea of conscience inhabitance through permaculture.
Check out our site here at www.InhabitFilm.com
"In this short extract from the upcoming film we look at Steve Gabriel's forest farm."
Watch:
https://vimeo.com/110729096#ForestGardens #Forests #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems -
Ooooh...! And more from #FarmingTheWoods author Steve Gabriel!
INHABIT: "Farming the Woods" with Steve Gabriel
"‘Inhabit’ is a documentary film exploring the idea of conscience inhabitance through permaculture.
Check out our site here at www.InhabitFilm.com
"In this short extract from the upcoming film we look at Steve Gabriel's forest farm."
Watch:
https://vimeo.com/110729096#ForestGardens #Forests #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems -
Ooooh...! And more from #FarmingTheWoods author Steve Gabriel!
INHABIT: "Farming the Woods" with Steve Gabriel
"‘Inhabit’ is a documentary film exploring the idea of conscience inhabitance through permaculture.
Check out our site here at www.InhabitFilm.com
"In this short extract from the upcoming film we look at Steve Gabriel's forest farm."
Watch:
https://vimeo.com/110729096#ForestGardens #Forests #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems -
There's a companion website for #TheWoodsInYourBackyard ! Sweet! It also has PDF versions of the book (I like having physical copies of books).
The Woods in Your Backyard
"This web site was developed as a companion piece to 'The Woods in Your Backyard: A Guide to Your Woodland.' This resource guide was developed by the Maine Forest Service to help you understand the woods in your backyard and provide ideas about how to work with your property, whether you own a 1-acre lot or 20 acres on the edge of town.
"A directory of state agencies and natural resource-based organizations can be found beginning on page 3 in Chapter 1 and also in the Chapter 1 section below. These agencies are good initial contacts and a great source of additional information on a variety of topics.
"'Backyard Family Activities' are included at the end of each chapter to help you learn more about your property as a family. The activities are most suitable for older children and teens, and they all require adult supervision. Teachers and youth group leaders can adapt them for use with older students. When completed, the Backyard Family Activities also provide a planning framework for working in your woods.
"We hope you enjoy this web site and find the information enjoyable and valuable!"
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/woods_in_your_backyard.html
#ForestGardens #Forests #MaineForests #Reclaiming
#GardeningForWildlife #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems #Maine #MaineForestService #Foraging -
There's a companion website for #TheWoodsInYourBackyard ! Sweet! It also has PDF versions of the book (I like having physical copies of books).
The Woods in Your Backyard
"This web site was developed as a companion piece to 'The Woods in Your Backyard: A Guide to Your Woodland.' This resource guide was developed by the Maine Forest Service to help you understand the woods in your backyard and provide ideas about how to work with your property, whether you own a 1-acre lot or 20 acres on the edge of town.
"A directory of state agencies and natural resource-based organizations can be found beginning on page 3 in Chapter 1 and also in the Chapter 1 section below. These agencies are good initial contacts and a great source of additional information on a variety of topics.
"'Backyard Family Activities' are included at the end of each chapter to help you learn more about your property as a family. The activities are most suitable for older children and teens, and they all require adult supervision. Teachers and youth group leaders can adapt them for use with older students. When completed, the Backyard Family Activities also provide a planning framework for working in your woods.
"We hope you enjoy this web site and find the information enjoyable and valuable!"
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/woods_in_your_backyard.html
#ForestGardens #Forests #MaineForests #Reclaiming
#GardeningForWildlife #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems #Maine #MaineForestService #Foraging -
There's a companion website for #TheWoodsInYourBackyard ! Sweet! It also has PDF versions of the book (I like having physical copies of books).
The Woods in Your Backyard
"This web site was developed as a companion piece to 'The Woods in Your Backyard: A Guide to Your Woodland.' This resource guide was developed by the Maine Forest Service to help you understand the woods in your backyard and provide ideas about how to work with your property, whether you own a 1-acre lot or 20 acres on the edge of town.
"A directory of state agencies and natural resource-based organizations can be found beginning on page 3 in Chapter 1 and also in the Chapter 1 section below. These agencies are good initial contacts and a great source of additional information on a variety of topics.
"'Backyard Family Activities' are included at the end of each chapter to help you learn more about your property as a family. The activities are most suitable for older children and teens, and they all require adult supervision. Teachers and youth group leaders can adapt them for use with older students. When completed, the Backyard Family Activities also provide a planning framework for working in your woods.
"We hope you enjoy this web site and find the information enjoyable and valuable!"
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/woods_in_your_backyard.html
#ForestGardens #Forests #MaineForests #Reclaiming
#GardeningForWildlife #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems #Maine #MaineForestService #Foraging -
There's a companion website for #TheWoodsInYourBackyard ! Sweet! It also has PDF versions of the book (I like having physical copies of books).
The Woods in Your Backyard
"This web site was developed as a companion piece to 'The Woods in Your Backyard: A Guide to Your Woodland.' This resource guide was developed by the Maine Forest Service to help you understand the woods in your backyard and provide ideas about how to work with your property, whether you own a 1-acre lot or 20 acres on the edge of town.
"A directory of state agencies and natural resource-based organizations can be found beginning on page 3 in Chapter 1 and also in the Chapter 1 section below. These agencies are good initial contacts and a great source of additional information on a variety of topics.
"'Backyard Family Activities' are included at the end of each chapter to help you learn more about your property as a family. The activities are most suitable for older children and teens, and they all require adult supervision. Teachers and youth group leaders can adapt them for use with older students. When completed, the Backyard Family Activities also provide a planning framework for working in your woods.
"We hope you enjoy this web site and find the information enjoyable and valuable!"
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/woods_in_your_backyard.html
#ForestGardens #Forests #MaineForests #Reclaiming
#GardeningForWildlife #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems #Maine #MaineForestService #Foraging -
There's a companion website for #TheWoodsInYourBackyard ! Sweet! It also has PDF versions of the book (I like having physical copies of books).
The Woods in Your Backyard
"This web site was developed as a companion piece to 'The Woods in Your Backyard: A Guide to Your Woodland.' This resource guide was developed by the Maine Forest Service to help you understand the woods in your backyard and provide ideas about how to work with your property, whether you own a 1-acre lot or 20 acres on the edge of town.
"A directory of state agencies and natural resource-based organizations can be found beginning on page 3 in Chapter 1 and also in the Chapter 1 section below. These agencies are good initial contacts and a great source of additional information on a variety of topics.
"'Backyard Family Activities' are included at the end of each chapter to help you learn more about your property as a family. The activities are most suitable for older children and teens, and they all require adult supervision. Teachers and youth group leaders can adapt them for use with older students. When completed, the Backyard Family Activities also provide a planning framework for working in your woods.
"We hope you enjoy this web site and find the information enjoyable and valuable!"
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/woods_in_your_backyard.html
#ForestGardens #Forests #MaineForests #Reclaiming
#GardeningForWildlife #FarmingTheWoods #Woodland
#SolarPunkSunday #BackyardWoods
#Ecosystems #Maine #MaineForestService #Foraging -
The ancient Maya civilization, thriving in what is now Southern Mexico, Guatemala, #Belize, and parts of #Honduras, is renowned for its remarkable achievements in agriculture. Central to their survival was the intricate system of #forestgardens, a sustainable method that reflects their rich #Indigenous food traditions.
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The aim of Mere Brow Farm is to create an ecological system that is fun, educational, productive, diverse and sustainable with a combination of mixed woodland, orchards, hedgerows and edible forests.
Learn more about the agroecological practices that take place at Mere Brow Farm
https://agroecologymap.org/locations/mere-brow-farm
#agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #agrarökologie #permaculture #permacultura #permakultur #agroforestry #agrofloresta #agroforesterie #agroforstwirtschaft #forestgardens #uk #europe
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The aim of Mere Brow Farm is to create an ecological system that is fun, educational, productive, diverse and sustainable with a combination of mixed woodland, orchards, hedgerows and edible forests.
Learn more about the agroecological practices that take place at Mere Brow Farm
https://agroecologymap.org/locations/mere-brow-farm
#agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #agrarökologie #permaculture #permacultura #permakultur #agroforestry #agrofloresta #agroforesterie #agroforstwirtschaft #forestgardens #uk #europe
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Robin Harford has done *so much* for foraging in the UK, he has an exciting new project
“The Eatweeds Academy is my new wild food mentor programme. I teach each session using a combination of video and weekly live Zoom sessions.
The class runs between March and October, allowing you to follow the plants through the seasons and in various habitats.”
Sign up form on his home page: https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/
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Robin Harford has done *so much* for foraging in the UK, he has an exciting new project
“The Eatweeds Academy is my new wild food mentor programme. I teach each session using a combination of video and weekly live Zoom sessions.
The class runs between March and October, allowing you to follow the plants through the seasons and in various habitats.”
Sign up form on his home page: https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/