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#MedicineGarden

Sweetgrass or the Hair of Mother Earth. Sacred medicine and ceremonial grass of Turtle Island. If you want to know more about it, read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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#sweetgrass #turtleIsland #tkaronto #toronto #sacred #textureTuesday #urban #urbanGarden #medicine #medicineGarden

Close up of dense layers of bright green blades of sweetgrass, with beads of dew. The sweetgrass is lying down so the roots are at the top of the picture. As it grows it starts to lie flat, and it already smells sweet.

#RoyalRoadsUniversity recently unveiled its new #Indigenous #MedicineGarden – a project designed to give #students and #community members a chance to learn about #plants that the #Lekwungen speaking peoples have used since time immemorial.

Solara Goldwynn, Royal Roads' farm and #FoodSystems lead, and Kenneth Elliot, #EthnoBotanist and #CowichanElder, chose the garden’s colourful mix of plants, most of which grow naturally in the traditional territories of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples (southern #VancouverIsland and the #SanJuanIslands and #GulfIslands

https://www.sookenewsmirror.com/local-news/new-indigenous-medicine-garden-blooms-at-royal-roads-university-7473608

#NativeMedicine #IndigenousGarden #NativeGarden #YYJ #CoastSalish #VanIsle #Cascadia #NativePlants #PacificNorthwest #PNW #LandBack #decolonialism #Educational #biodiversity #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPlants #Colwood #Langford #Metchosin

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