Fwd: [OFSSGN] Register for the Tend, Gather, Grow Training!

[Amoreena Guerrero]

Here is an incredible learning opportunity that we hope some of you all will register for! Tend Gather Grow is a unique curriculum that aligns deeply with outdoor and garden based learnings. It brings the human element and local indigenous knowledge and practices to the forefront and ties both in deeply to the ecological! Check it out if you are in the Portland Metro area please consider this!

Amoreena

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Garden Educators please join us for a two day Tend, Gather and Grow (Tend) workshop at Wapato Island Farms. Tend is a K-12 curriculum that focuses on native and naturalized plants of the Pacific Northwest region. Northwest Native American plant knowledge and stories are woven throughout the curriculum. Tend’s 60+ lessons align with Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics (STEAM) education principles and Next Generation Science Standards.

We will joyfully explore themes and activities in cultural ecosystems, wild food traditions, and the social-emotional teachings of plants. Educators will expand their plant identification tools, gain new skills in outdoor education, make plant medicines with rose and plantain and make delicious plant inspired beverages and foods. Participants will take home the entire 800+ page Tend curriculum that is adaptable for kindergarteners through adults.

Delicious lunch, snacks and beverages provided.  

Taught by Mariana Harvey (Yakama) and Kim Gaffi, both members of the Tend, Gather, and Grow Curriculum Development Team

Presenter Bios

Mariana Harvey is a citizen of Yakama Nation, an íła (mother) and an artist with a passion for protecting Native foods and medicines and sharing their gifts in community. Mariana co-led Native student buffalo harvests in college which sparked her journey into Tribal Food Sovereignty. She worked for 7 years serving Native youth in leadership development initiatives nationally with the Native Youth Leadership Alliance and Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Youth. She is a founding member of Tend, Gather and Grow curriculum development team. She holds a B.A. Degree in American Indian Studies from Fort Lewis College and is an Evergreen Longhouse Advisory Board member. Mariana is a 2021 NDN Collective ChangeMaker Fellow where she focused on expanding the Tend, Gather and Grow curriculum to Plateau Tribes. Mariana received the 2021 Potlatch Fund Spirit of Reciprocity award and the 2018 Inspired Native Award from Eighth Generation. Mariana enjoys gathering foods and medicines with her family, learning Ichishskíin (Yakama) language, designing earrings, and composing and sharing songs in community.

Kim Gaffi is the Co-Founder and past Executive Director of GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty) and a founding member of the Tend, Gather, and Grow curriculum development team. Kim earned her BA in Community Development and BS in Environmental Science from The Evergreen State College and loves thinking about and working on the intersection of humans and the natural environment. She brings her passion for experiential education & food justice as well as her skills in group facilitation, organizational development and educational policy. 

Register here, to request a scholarship, contact Melina

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