#naturalmaterials — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #naturalmaterials, aggregated by home.social.
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#Gardens that Nurture #Culture
Spring 2022
Excerpt: "Growing one’s own food became more appealing and, in some cases, a greater necessity to many in this pandemic era. #NativePeoples have long tended gardens that have provided their communities with #sustainably grown foods, #MedicinalPlants and #NaturalMaterials. Today these much-needed sources of local, healthy foods are also places to cultivate and preserve #CulturalTraditions.
" 'Even some Native cultures—like #foraging cultures—that didn’t historically garden now see it as a helpful use of land and time and money because they can efficiently produce the kinds of foods that people need to stay healthy,' said Elizabeth Hoover. Of #Mohawk and #Mikmaq descent, she is an associate professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California in Berkeley. Researching this trend, she drove 20,000 miles in 2014 to talk with dozens of #AmericanIndian gardeners and food advocates.
"In western North Carolina, David Anderson works as the horticultural operations supervisor at the #JessieOwleDugan #NativePlant and Greenhouse Facility of the Eastern Band of #Cherokee Indians. The complex includes three #greenhouses, 30 raised growing beds, a 3-acre nursery and 5 acres of fields dedicated to producing crops specifically for their seeds. It also has 330 acres of field that can be leased to enrolled tribal members who wish to garden or farm.
"While the facility does generate funds for the tribe, it also preserves culturally important species to get them into the hands of tribal members to plant. It focuses on growing traditional plants, such as #grapes, #elderberry, #WildStrawberries, #blackberries, #huckleberries sochan and #cohosh. In 2021, the greenhouse also grew #hickory saplings, which once mature, can to provide wood that can be used to make stickball sticks, artworks and other traditional projects. 'We serve our community with plants for home, for farmers, and for restoration,' said Anderson."
Read more:
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/gardens-that-nurture-culture#SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalFoods #NativeAmericans #CulturalPreservation #GrowYourOwnFood #Resilience #FoodSecurity #HeirloomPlants #SeedSaving
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#NewWestminster #Vancouver #YVR folks 👇
#InkMaking w/ natural resources #CreativeArt #workshop Faciliated by #InvasiveArt Initiative.
You will #learn how to process and #create #ink from natural resources, and then have the opportunity to make some art with the ink. All supplies provided.
Pay What You Can tickets.
To make this workshop accessible, we offer three ticket options. Please select one of the options that works best for you.Saturday, August 16 · 11am - 12:30pm
712C 12th Street, New Westminster.https://www.invasiveartinitiative.ca/
The Initiative works to engage community members throughout what is currently known as the Lower Mainland of BC, delivering a series of workshops on Invasive Species-based #art supplies and other useable materials in collaboration with non-for-profits and local volunteer groups.The traveling project was established in late 2021, aiming for ethical and reciprocal engagements within the often-destructive practices of invasive removal, offering use for the materiality of the plants that would otherwise go to waste.Promoting dialogues on "environment", colonization and human exceptionalism, the project works with organizations in offering demonstrations and talks on re-contextualizing social imaginations in relationship with so-called Invasive Species.
Sign up:
#InvasiveSpecies #NatureArt #NaturalInk #NaturalMaterials #HandsOnLearning
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Ripped out a bunch of morning glory invasive vines - more to rip out, tomorrow afternoon. It's too hot now to keep at it. I'm in basement, cooling off.
Gathered some fallen rose petals to infuse with water with tiny bit of vitamin C powder to make my own DIY #NaturalDyes to tint paper & fabric😊🥀
*If you use on fabric, lock colour in for longer by soaking in the #HomemadeDye for 24 hours, followed by soaking in 1:20 salt & water solution for another 24 hours.
Next month, I'm going to experiment with infusing rose petals into different cooking oils & use to try staining some wood with it. It's fun to play around & see what I can come up with 😀
#Gardeners #Hobbies #CreativeUses #RosePetals #NaturalMaterials #botanical