Reconciliation in the classroom: Exploring sustainable agriculture and food security by Sandra Z https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb Indigenous knowledge and worldviews on nutrition, reciprocity and the natural world. en-us 2020-03-21 21:16:46 UTC 2024-12-13 11:27:36 UTC hello@padlet.com From "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants" by Robin Wall Kimmerer sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469274359                         Dear teachers, please read the following excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (full citation below). We hope this inspires you to start your own journey of incorporating Indigenous knowledge and wisdom as it pertains to nature, crop production,  sustainable farming and food security. Students can learn a lot from plants, and not just about the topics listed above. Discussions range beyond the scope of agriculture and sustainable living- it changes societies, cultures and our habits. Students gain perspective about their world, both natural and social through what they are taught. Bringing in traditional Indigenous perspectives into the discussion can help them grow both as a collective and as individuals.
  Excerpt
"The Three Sisters:
It should be them who tell this story. Corn leaves rustle with a signature sound, a papery conversation with each other and the breeze. On a hot day in July- when the corn can grow six inches in a single day- there is a squeak of internodes expanding, stretching the stem toward the light. Leaves escape their sheaths with a draw-out creak and sometimes when all is still, you can hear the sudden pop of ruptured pith when water-filled cells become too large and turgid for the confines of the stem. These are the sounds of being, but they are not the voice.

The beans must make a caressing sound, a tiny hiss as a soft-haired leader twines around the scabrous stem of corn. Surfaces vibrate delicately against each other, tendrils pulse as they cinch around a stem, something only a nearby flea beetle could hear. But this is not the song of beans.

I've lain among ripening pumpkins and heard creaking as the parasol leaves rock back and forth, tethered by their tendrils, wind lifting their edges and easing them down again. A microphone in the hollow of a swelling pumpkin would reveal the pop of seeds expanding and the rush of water filling succulent orange flesh. These are sounds but not the story. Plants tell their stories not by what they say, but by what they do.

What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would become so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives. (...)

...Plants speak in a tongue that every breathing thing can understand. Plants teach in a universal language: food. "

KIMMERER, ROBIN WALL. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. S.l.: MILKWEED EDITIONS, 2013.]]> 2020-03-21 22:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469274359 The Teaching of Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469296679 Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants."]]> 2020-03-21 23:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469296679 Teachers tool-box sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469299689 The following document and linked videos will assist teachers in the process of getting their urban garden or school/classroom gardens started while including Indigenous wisdom and perspectives on the matter of sustainable farming, crop production, nutrition and food security.

In order to access the content, please download a QR code scanner onto your mobile device. There are many different versions available. Nonetheless, we have attached a selected few below:
Androids:
QR Code Reader Free - QR Reader For Android: link
QR & Barcode Scanner: link
Apple: How to scan Qr Codes with your camera app: link

Compiled by Joanie Beaudoin and Lyndon Efford. 
]]> 2020-03-21 23:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469299689 Embracing Indigenous cuisine and nutrition sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469314014  Indigenous knowledge and perspectives about sustainable crop production and agriculture aren't limited to the action of planting and harvesting crops. Students can learn about the value of nutritious food through traditional indigenous recipes and cuisine as they learn about subsistence and local farming using native to Canada plants and crops. Students can learn about the diversity of these recipes and their nutritional, cultural and traditional backgrounds post-harvest of their own crops and fruits. A great place to start looking for Indigenous culinary inspirations and experience starts with your local area and or communities.

Montreal:
Mi'kmaw chef Norma Condo has opened her restaurant and catering business on November 2018 in Montreal 's Pierrefonds borough. She has been an inspiration for many Indigenous communities and locals as she transmits healthy and nutritious meals. Chef Condo seeks to inspire clean eating and nutrition; the outsourcing of local and native to the land ingredients. Having spoken to her about the concept of urban gardening and building gardens in our local schools while incorporating Indigenous knowledge, she was inspired and expressed the importance of teaching future generations about the value of food, sustainable living, eating and farming. She spoke about her Three Sisters Salad as a great place to start teaching students about Indigenous perspectives on food and how with just a few simple crops we can feed an entire community and end food insecurity. You can purchase and support her local business by purchasing her own Three Sisters salad amongst other delicious meals, feed your students and other guests as your pupils learn to make their own Three Sisters salad's using her or other Indigenous recipes as inspirations.

Miqmak Catering and Indigenous Kitchen Chef Norma Condo's restaurant:
Facebook: @chefnormacondo
Website: Miqmak Catering Indigenous Kitchen: Link

Below you will find an article about Chef Norma Condo and her restaurant.

For a french article and news story about her restaurant and inspirations click the following linK : Radio-Canada



]]> 2020-03-22 00:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469314014 Indigenous Cuisine from Coast to Coast sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469742200 Introducing traditional Indigenous culinary experiences into our classrooms is a fantastic way to explore alternative options to the current food culture which has taken its toll on our society's health, well-being and overall has produced an immense disconnect with the natural world and our connection to the nutritional aspects of food.  While teaching and learning about the value of the natural world and the foods we grow through urban-style gardening in our schools, and or dedicating crop production and tree planting areas on school grounds, introducing students to indigenous peoples culinary traditions that have been a staple since time immemorial, can not only help support healthy and clean eating but can also encourage social and cultural reconciliation between the nations.

The following website will allow you to explore the different Indigenous restaurants and eateries and encourage those who travel from coast to coast, to take the time to explore what they have to offer. Remember, your students will one day become those travellers, if they aren't already-by introducing them to Indigenous traditional cooking will give them the necessary curiosity and hunger to learn from and about Indigenous culinary traditions.

Other resources:
The Food Network: 12 Tasty Canadian Indigenous Restaurants
Quebec Aboriginal Tourism: Flavours at their Purest

]]> 2020-03-22 15:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469742200 Decolonizing Diet: Healing by Reclaiming Traditional Indigenous Foodways by Monica Bodirsky and Jon Johnson, November 17, 2008 sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469766844 Article. ]]> 2020-03-22 15:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469766844 Urban Farm Schools sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469771630 Teachers, get inspired by those schools and communities who have already began their local communal gardens and urban school farms. ]]> 2020-03-22 16:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469771630 The Benefits of Building an Urban Garden at Your School BY ASHLEY SIMMONS | May 24, 2017 sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469774874 2020-03-22 16:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469774874 Fresh Roots sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469777705 For inspiration and envisioning the diversity of learning and teaching opportunities.

Fresh Roots: What we do

]]> 2020-03-22 16:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469777705 Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine: DECOLONIZING OUR DIET: SIOUX CHEF, November 2018 sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469780877 2020-03-22 16:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469780877 How an Indigenous Chef Is Decolonizing Canadian Cuisine: Rich Francis is reclaiming and reinventing an erased food culture. sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469782657 2020-03-22 16:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469782657 Decolonizing Our Diets by Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens by Devon A. Mihesuah sandra_zmuda https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469791935 Article reference:

Mihesuah, Devon A. "Decolonizing Our Diets by Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens." American Indian Quarterly 27, no. 3/4 (2003): 807-39. Accessed March 22, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/4138973.]]> 2020-03-22 16:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sandra_zmuda/wrdr4q39aqpb/wish/469791935