posted 5 years ago
To all who are curious about supporting wildtending conversations and projects,
I am an Indigenous woman living on Ojibwe territory dedicated to gathering stories and ancestral knowledge about wild tending. Wild: to be living in a natural environment, not domesticated or cultivated. Tending: frequently behaving in a way to have a certain characteristic; attending to something. Therefore, wildtending is the frequent actions of paying attention to foster an undomesticated character. These interactions give each being its own unique life. It is a relationship rooted in reciprocity with that which sustains us. To be actively giving back more than we take, and in the process increasing the abundance and diversity of the entire ecological community.
I have recently established a non-profit dedicated to this work and are looking for allies to support the journey through Patreon. The project has 3 main projects: mentoring BIPOC youth in ancestral skills with NO cost attached, actively wild tending and planting native ethnobotanical plants and trees, as well as starting a podcast to host predominantly Indigenous elders in the North to have a platform for them to share the ways in which they actively participate and tend to the natural world. Support through Patreon allows for updates of the project as well as land capsules sent in the mail in letter-size or package form!
More information on this link: www.patreon.com/findingpolaris
As well as the website: www.findingpolaris.com
With the mysterious call of Loon,
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