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In this newsletter:
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Highlights from early October
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Upcoming workshops, volunteer opportunities and dates
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Join the Feast Bowl at the Dialogue First Nations' Perspectives on History, Food and Health October 17
These past weeks we have been busy in the garden harvesting the last of the teas to dry for the winter, saving seeds, and planting cover crop in anticipation of a productive 2015 season with the soil.
The Feast Bowl made creative use of the excess cucumbers through canning a dill cucumber relish for winter meals, while youth in the CRUW program learned how to thresh and winnow the seeds they saved from their gardens using different techniques including their favourite: stomping on pillowcases. Participants in Sharing Our Wisdom (a holistic Aboriginal health initiative) visited the garden to learn about the traditional and seasonal foods growing there and cook a delicious feast with recipes from the Tu'wusht project cookbook.
The Medicine Collective has been busy, taking a group of engaging students in UBC's Midwifery program on a medicine walk in the garden. The Medicine Collective also continued a budding relationship with the Sechelt First Nation by visiting the community for a day workshop harvesting, sharing plant knowledge, and making skin salve. Plants shared from the Indigenous Health Garden were growing beautifully in their gardens, and we were honoured to be welcomed into Sechelt territory and so generously brought into their circle of knowledge-sharing and enriching community health. We look forward to more chances to engage with Sechelt in the future!
Read on to learn about upcoming Feast Bowl meals (and a chance to cook for a great dialogue event) as well as volunteer opportunities in the garden.
Late September in the garden
Clockwise from top left: participants at this winter's Feast Bowl meals will get to enjoy this dill cucumber relish made by intern Paulina Naylor; our first-ever harvest of edamame soy beans from the garden, ready for snacking; garden volunteers help us sort through (and smell) all the medicines dried for teas over the season; participants in the Sharing Our Wisdom project harvested and cooked a delicious meal from the garden; the meal included this delicious beet-zucchini chocolate cake, stirred by our under-five helper; devil's club harvested in Sechelt territory; the Medicine Collective joined Sechelt Elder Jamie Dixon harvesting and making salve with members of the Sechelt community; a volunteer harvests lemon balm for dried tea.
Upcoming workshops and volunteer opportunities
- Friday October 10th, 1:00-4:00PM: Tobacco Pipe Mix Making workshop with the Medicine Collective - FULL, e-mail hannah.lewis@ubc.ca to join waiting list
- Wednesday October 15th, 1:30-4:30PM: Garden work day
- Friday October 17th, 11AM-2:00PM: Feast Bowl cooking for the event First Nations' Perspectives on History, Food, and Health at the UBC Longhouse (details below)
- Tuesday October 21st, 1:30-4:30PM: Garden work day
- Tuesday October 28th, 1:30-4:30PM: Garden work day
- Wednesday October 29th: Feast Bowl community meal at the UBC Longhouse
- Wednesday November 19th: Feast Bowl community meal at the UBC Longhouse
- Wednesday December 18th: Feast Bowl community meal at the UBC Longhouse
How to volunteer for garden work days: we work in the garden rain or shine, so come dressed for the weather. We have extra rain boots, gardening tools, and gloves to share. Bring a snack and water bottle - bring friends and family (of any age) too! No experience necessary. You will find us in the Indigenous Health Garden at the UBC Farm. The most up-to-date directions to the UBC Farm can be found here. Once at the Farm, you can follow the "Aboriginal Health Gardens" signs to find our garden here.
How to volunteer for the Feast Bowl: join us at the UBC First Nations Longhouse (1985 West Mall) at 10:00AM to help us harvest, 11:00AM in the kitchen to help us cook, or 12:30PM in Sty-Wet-Tan hall to eat lunch with us. Extra help from any age or skill level is always appreciated, especially in the kitchen. If you can only join us for lunch, we encourage you to come anyway and we look forward to sharing a delicious meal with you!
Note: if you plan to bring a large group, please let us know ahead of time at hannah.lewis@ubc.ca.
Join the Feast Bowl at the dialogue First Nations' Perspectives on History, Food, and Health, October 17
Photo by Don Erhardt
The Feast Bowl is excited to take part in this important dialogue central to the work we do at the Feast Bowl and in all programs of the Indigenous Health Garden, rooted in the "food as medicine" and Indigenous food sovereignty. As members of the Indigenous Research Partnerships within the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, we are honoured to be part of ongoing community engagement, student learning, and knowledge-sharing with many of the speakers at this event, including director of the Indigenous Research Partnerships Dr. Eduardo Jovel.
We will be cooking bannock and salmon spread for the reception at this event, and will need some hands in the kitchen! This is a great chance to listen in on a great dialogue and cook (and of course eat!) some delicious food.
To volunteer, please join us at the First Nations House of Learning Longhouse kitchen between 11:00AM and 2:00PM. If you are only able to join for part of the day, your help will still be welcome!
In collaboration with the UBC First Nations House of Learning and the Department of History
Friday, October 17th 2014
12:30pm to 2:30pm (Program 12:30-2:00pm; Reception 2:00-2:30pm)
RSVP online
UBC First Nations Longhouse, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall
1985 West Mall, Vancouver, BC
Shortly after WWII, when knowledge about nutrition was still sparse, scientists in Canada took advantage of Aboriginal children in Indian Residential Schools (IRS) by using them as unknowing research subjects to investigate the effects of different diets and withholding dietary supplements. Evidence of these government-sanctioned experiments was recently published by food historian and UBC History alumnus Ian Mosby, and received widespread media attention across Canada. Now under the spotlight, attempts have been made to reconcile these past actions, provide support to survivors who were subjects in the experiments, and find ways to move toward a more civilized society for everyone in Canada.
The aftermath of these experiments still has an effect today in the lives of IRS survivors and inter-generational IRS survivors. Join us for a panel discussion about this dark era in Canadian history. Find out how UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems is working to address issues such as access to healthy food, food sovereignty, traditional food, food security for all and land stewardship.
Moderator: Prof. Rickey Yada
Panelists:
- Ian Mosby — Postdoctoral Fellow, L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University
- Eduardo Jovel — Director, Indigenous Research Partnerships; Associate Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
- Dawn Morrison — Research Associate, Indigenous Community Engagement
- Jessie Newman — B.Sc. Student, UBC Dietetics Major, Food, Nutrition and Health Program
RSVP online
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