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This spring, volunteers will plant tradi
tional first foods, including 16 species of
heirloom tomatoes, which have already be
gun to take root in small plastic pots inside
the Wisdom of the Elder’s house.
With the Native community dispersed all
over the metro area. High Bear said ulti
mately, her goal is to “form one big group of
gardens, so that wherever someone lives,
they can be close to a garden.”
Wisdom of the Elder member, Portland
State University educator and herbalist, Judy
BlueHorse Skelton of the Nez Perce and
Cherokee tribes, also spoke at the meeting.
As part of Portland’s Plan for 2014, she
said the good news is the city is interested in
hearing from local tribal representatives on
ways to re-indigenize the urban landscape,
or in other words, bring the indigenous and
urban community together.
climate change issues and possible local
sustainable responses.
However, Wisdom of the Elders waits on
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funding to continue the eight planned radio
programs. Right now, they only have enough
money for two.
In the end, after stories, cookies and juice
had been shared; the meeting’s discussion
covered less about the logistics of the gar
den and more about sustaining grants and
funding to continue the garden and Native
programs.
One elder suggested asking the Spirit
M ountain C asino for a grant. She said
they offer grants up to $25,000. A nother
m em ber said m ost tribes are lucky if they
get $5,000.
Kitchen looking more like an office?
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PHOTO BY CARI HACHMANN/
T he P ortland O bserver
Among other traditional first foods,
Native volunteers plant 16 species of
heirloom tomatoes, which have already
begun to take root in small plastic pots
inside Wisdom of the Elder’s house at
3202 S.E. 109th Ave.
Through specialty block grant programs
funded by the federal government, High
Bear plans to offer micro-enterprise opportu
nities in agriculture through the community
gardens.
She sees the Wisdom Garden, not only as
a place where people can learn to plant first
food species like berries, but as an “urban
incubator in agriculture,” that exposes more
Natives into the field.
“The average farmer [in Oregon] is 58-
years-old,” said High Bear. Eventually they
will turn their farms over and not likely to their
kids, she said. “We want to encourage Na
tive families and Native youth in that direc
tion.”
High Bear has also submitted three grants
to the National Science Foundation, in hopes
to host two, one-week summer camps on
climate change at the Wisdom Garden.
The two, one-week camps would be in
tandem with the Wisdom of the Elder’s radio
broadcast program, which offers scholar
ships to Native youth interested in Video
Production and TV Studio production.
The camp would act as a pilot program
directed towards Native youth, who could
take video camera into the field and cover
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