May 2024 - Indigenous Youth Food Sovereignty Program

Saturday May 18th
by Molly Phemister 16 May '24

16 May '24

Hello relatives! I'm looking forward to seeing you out at the garden site this weekend. While long pants and close toes shoes are still very helpful, it's definitely getting hotter out. Consider sunscreen and bug spray and a water bottle as you prepare for your morning. There's more planting this weekend (tomatoes!!), including more direct seeding (beans!!), but we also have to talk about every gardener's low key nemesis: weeds. Don't worry, I have Ideas. So does Robin Wall Kimmerer: check out chapter 9 for her story about the swimming pond / duck pond puzzle. It's a relevant read this week. See you Saturday! Molly

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May 11 garden plan PLUS volunteer opportunity
by Molly Phemister 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hello relatives, our plant friends in the field look good, and our plant friends in the greenhouse would like to go out to the field! Some of them will be able to go to our garfen with us this Saturday. Let's begin at the greenhouse, but plan to mostly be in the field. The irrigation is on and we do not have enough mulch, so it will be a bit gummy on our shoes, please dress accordingly. We also have a wonderful opportunity this weekend to have a representative from each clan join me at a Senior living facility on O Street near 66th to tell them about our program, and to donate two or three dozen of our plants to their own gardening efforts. We will select what goes to them together Saturday morning, and then take them over after lunch. See you Saturday! Molly

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Pick up on 5/4 will be Plant Sciences
by Molly Phemister 04 May '24

04 May '24

Good morning, in case I don't catch you at drop off, I wanted to let you know that we will be ending the morning over at Plant sciences, which is where the students met commonly at the very beginning of the year. Although a picnic lunch in the field is Usually a delightful way to end, it is wet windy and cold out there, so we will be having lunch over at Plant sciences hall. Thank you! Molly

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Saturday is in the Garden
by Molly Phemister 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hello! We missed you last week. Hopefully all that was in turmoil last weekend has been set to rights now? Many thanks to all of you for your flexibility last weekend. The plants you seeded a few weeks ago and looking great! Are you excited to get them in the ground? This weekend we will begin in the greenhouse, working with our clans to make some very specific plans for the season. We'll select a few plants in there to come out to the garden with us, then walk over to the gardens, pin down our irrigation, and get some things in the ground- both the plants we selected, and hopefully some direct seed too. There may be some early weeds to take care of, so please plan to get dirty- long pants, closed toe shoes. We will also be discussing the excerpt Louise directed our attention to last weekend, so please plan to come with intention to listen to each other and make observations. (from Louise's note last weekend: "This is a great opportunity to spend some time with your copy of Braiding Sweetgrass. Please read the Maple Sugar Moon chapter, pages 63 – 71. After reading, please consider a question that Dr. Kimmerer (the author) asks: If we think about the earth bestowing us with a responsibility to harvest her gifts in honorable ways, how might you reimagine the production of natural resources in your area?”) See you soon, Molly

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