Protecting Water, Air Earth & Spirit
Planting Roots is a broad set of programs primarily for Indigenous youth and families to learn our indigenous ecological practices, tutor young students in STEM to bridge the school achievement gap, create indigenous ethnobotanical gardens for food sovereignty and take cultural exchange trips between urban Indian communities and rural reservations.
We also host cultural classes for weaving, storytelling and songs, and create community resources and projects to improve the economic opportunities across Indian country.
If you support Planting Roots you’ll help us manage riparian restoration sites, run plant giveaways, support elders
Planting Roots
Brings urban and rural indigenous youth and families into parks or gardens once every moon to preserve our indigenous knowledge of traditional plant medicines and traditional foods. We teach our students how to identify, find, gather, dry and process indigenous plants and fungi into medicine. After we’ve worked on processing and preparing batches of medicine, we end by giving our students medicine and instructing them to give it to their elders and families to instill in them a spirit of Potlatch.
Every moon has a different medicine, so after our students have spent a year with us, they will have a sense of security in their ability to provide themselves or family with medicine year round if they have an emergency anywhere in our territory.