Wisahkotewinowak

Wisahkotewinowak is an urban Indigenous garden collective building Land-based relationships across the Grand River Territory. We are a group of Indigenous (First Nation and Métis) Peoples and settler-allies who also wear many hats as gardeners, researchers/academics, teachers/educators, students and life-long learners. We exist in relation with each other, the wider community and our non-human kin (the Land, plants, animals, and spirit) in the urban spaces we call home.Collectively, we are Wisahkotewinowak (wisahk-tew-win-o-wak). This is a Métis word that means the first green shoots that come up from Mother Earth after a fire has gone through the land.

Beginning in August 2020, our food basket program with White Owl Native Ancestry Association provides locally sourced food for Indigenous families and students in the region. Offered on a weekly basis, our baskets offer a variety of freshly harvested produce from the gardens, some homemade preserves we make throughout the year, and fresh baked sourdough bread from Golden Hearth Bakery. 

If you have produce or food items to share, get in touch! We are seeking additional food sources (i.e., gardeners, farmers, and foragers) in the region to make our program year-round and add some diversity to our baskets.

We also host a number of events that people can attend throughout the year.

Garden sites are located in Guelph, Waterloo, Kitchener, and Blair, Ontario.