Food Forest Garden at NWIC Enjoying the Warm Weather

Project Background: In the academic year of 2014/2015 Northwest Indian College (NWIC) was awarded a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Tribal ecoAmbassador Internship program in support of a project entitled "Food Scaping" a Tribal College. The purpose of this project is to research traditional indigenous foods, growing habitats, obtaining longitudinal data of plants related to climate change and design permaculture involving soil, air water, and placement on the college campus. By establishing sustainable food sovereignty model of a nut and berry food forest on the NWIC campus, students and Lummi Nation community members can learn from this garden about food sovereignty and permaculture gardening.

Observation: This is the first spring since the Salish Garden was planted; this is an attempt to capture significant moments in the plants' development.

Resources:

briansblog - Northwest Indian College – Compton, B. (n.d.). Food Scaping a Tribal College - 2014-2015 Tribal ecoAmbassador Internship Program (Food Forest). Retrieved July 11, 2017, from http://blogs.nwic.edu/briansblog/internships/food-scaping-a-tribal-college-tribal-ecoambassador-internship-program-2014/