At the CPN Community Garden Greenhouse

At the CPN Community Garden greenhouse.

Taylor Doran, Hownikan Staff

Minisa Crumbo

Andrew Gourd, garden co-ordinator

CPN Community Garden Update: May 2017

Citizen Potawatomi showcase community garden and monarch habitats on June 27
 

CPN Community Garden in the 3 Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash Field

Shawnee, Oklahoma

CPN Community Garden in the 3 sisters: corn, beans and squash field.

Andrew Gourd; Minisa Crumbo; Taylor Doran; Monroe Jeffrey

CPN Community Garden Update: May 2017

Citizen Potawatomi showcase community garden 
and monarch habitats on June 27

Community Garden Project, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Shawnee, OK, June 7, 2017

BOZHO NIKAN, ni je na ... hello, my relatives, how are you all?

 

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY and HERITAGE SEED BANK issues are at the core of our newly reorganized and placed Community Garden at the Citizen Potawatomi Tribal Complex in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

 

This year's plantings include a newly planted orchard, sacred berry plots, a three sisters field, a state sponsored butterfly research project and propagation greenhouse, herbs, wild flowers, a Medicine Wheel planting and many other plantings.

 

The newest arrival to the Citizen Potawatomi Community Garden has been the long traveling and awaited sweet grass plants. These plants have undergone a lengthy acclimation process from their northern homelands by spending at least 4 years in the care of various members of the Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers group of Manhattan, Kansas, and most recently by living and growing for four years in the Oklahoma gardens of Minisa Crumbo Halsey.

 

During these years their grass relations have given generously to sweet grass braids and new plantings.

 

They are been joyously received and will be planted in the northern Citizen Potawatomi gardens for all of us: the elders, young people, those yet to come, and those who went before as well as those in mid life who are as yet, shouldered with the responsibilities of life.

 

We welcome the ezeshkemewegyek, the blessing herb, to its new home.

 

Kiche migwech to all those who fostered and lovingly tended these skebyak, green beings, as they continue to make their earth walk with us two leggeds as we progress together, along the ancient Potawatomi migration prophesy trail.

 

And, kiche migwech to the ezeshkemewegyek ... and many thanks to all of the skebjak, may we continue to walk together ... in balance and harmony ... all the days of our lives ... now and forever more.

 

AHO! Bama Pi..

Wabaksekwe

Minisa Crumbo Halsey

On Wed. June 7, 2017, the traveling sweet grass, ezeshkemegwek, is formally gifted from Minisa to Heath at the Community Garden Project, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Shawnee, OK.