#LaPointeWI - #MadelineIsland #CommunityGarden

"The Madeline Island Community Garden acknowledges that we garden on the land of the ancestral and contemporary #Anishinaabe, home to the #Ojibwe people. We affirm our commitment to support community wide discussion and education about indigenous sovereignty and history, and to encourage respect for the stories and sacredness this land has for the Ojibwe people.

"The garden offers a place for gardeners to grow their own food, as well as providing seasonal produce for the #FoodPantry at St. John’s Church.

Our garden is an ever-evolving creation…a fertile ground for producing nutritious local food, nurturing friendships, and connecting more closely to the processes of nature. The year’s unfolding brings unexpected delights as seeds sprout, flowers bloom, and vegetables mature and are gathered for harvest. Gardening can be challenging in this northern climate with frustratingly short growing seasons, unexpected early and late frosts, years with too much or too little rain, heavy clay soils, and of course the ubiquitous insects, weeds, and herbivores. Deer, rabbits, and voles love our fresh garden produce as much as we do! Many hands and many hearts have worked together to build a place that can sustain both body and soul of community members.

Our garden has a combination of individual growing plots for rent, as well as communal areas where a variety of crops are grown. Each season we work to supply fresh, local produce to the food shelf at St. John’s UCC.

The Madeline Island Community Garden is open sunup to sundown daily for plot renters to come and work in their space, harvest, or simply enjoy. As the garden is on leased private property and adjacent to a residence, please contact us for a tour and visit. We’d love to show you around!"

FMI:
https://www.madelineislandcommunitygarden.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #GrowingFood #BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity

5th Annual 2-Spirit Powwow

Toronto's 5th Annual 2-Spirit Powwow, hosted by 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations, is a vibrant Indigenous celebration held at Milliken District Park that honours Two-Spirit identity — a traditional Indigenous concept recognizing people who carry both feminine and masculine spirits.

#2SpiritPowwow2026 #NationalIndigenousPeoplesMonth #Anishinaabe #IndigenousPride #TwoSpirit #photography

After offering asemaa <tobacco>, I grabbed some red willow to make dreamcatchers.

I gotta wait a few weeks for them to dry before applying the sinew to actually weave the web part.

I was taught this from my late grandmother back then.

#IndigenousArt #NativeArt #NDNart #IndigiArt #Anishinaabe