Cottonwood: Wellspring
This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Hawthorn: Courage
This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Native Berry Walk
A movement activity with Rachel Smart and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Nettle: Build Inner Strength
This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Plantain: Self-Soothe
This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Willow: Flexibility
This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Yarrow: Boundaries
This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.
Alder
Bentwood Box: Traditional Cooking Methods
Bigleaf Maple
Camas: Traditional Cooking Methods
Douglas Fir
Honoring Plants, Places, and Cultural Traditions
The Art of Noticing
Tree Communities – Student Green Congress
This workshop was held live over Zoom on March 16, 2021 as a webinar during the 28th Annual Student Green Congress. This webinar features Elise Krohn, Mariana Harvey, and Kim Gaffi of Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB). You can learn more about GRuB on their website at https://www.goodgrub.org/
Wild Spring Greens
Moon of Digging Time (Camas)
Moon of the Blackberry
Moon of the Salal Berry
Moon of the Salmonberry
Swinomish Community Visits a Clam Garden
Swinomish community members visited a clam garden in British Columbia during the summer of 2019. Clam gardens are an ancient Indigenous technology of carefully tended terraced beaches that increase clam productivity. Watch this video to learn more about clam gardens and why they are so important to Indigenous people.
Camas: Attention to the seasons
Clams: Growing in community together
Deer and Elk
Learn how hunting and food gathering is a spiritual experience that allows Native peoples to honor the land and the sustenance it provides. This deer-dressing demonstration, put on by Northwest Indian College during its 2012 Our Food is Our Medicine conference, hoped to motivate others to embrace traditional food gathering ways. The demonstration coincided with other native foods being cooked by traditional methods, including clams, salmon and vegetables.
How Nettle Saved the People: Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha)
Elders and traditional stories tell us that the plants are our first teachers. If we learn to listen with all our senses, we begin to understand the many gifts they carry. Join storyteller Roger Fernandes to celebrate the awakening of spring and the teachings of nettle.