Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension Traditional Foods and Medicines Program’s 4th Annual Tribal Community Garden Coordinators Forum: Connecting Plants, People & Place
Thursday March 21, 2013 10:00-4:00
Hosted by: Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project
This gathering is an opportunity to share successes, challenges and resources with others who are doing tribal community garden work. Through sharing stories, resources, and models for building community resilience, we can help each other grow!
Featured speakers:
- Brett Ramey (Ioway) has been reconnecting people to land-based knowledge in both urban and rural Native communities through on-the-ground food sovereignty and public art projects for over a decade. He works as a Tribal Health Liaison with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is also a co-instructor of a course at Haskell Indian Nations University titled “Growing Change: Next Generation Responsibilities, Food Sovereignty and Climate Change.” Visit www.horagewi.com for more about Brett.
- Miguel Hernandez and Valerie Segrest will lead us in a tour of the Muckleshoot gardens and give an update on program developments, teaching tools and more.
Meet at the Muckleshoot Tribal College
39811 Auburn-Enumclaw Road SE, Auburn, Washington 98092
Lunch will be provided at the Elders Center
The event is free but please sign up at http://conta.cc/UyoA9r
For more information contact: Miguel Hernandez at mhernandez@nwic.edu or Valerie Segrest at vsegrest@nwic.edu