Yesterday was a beautiful celebration of the summer solstice. My fellow teacher candidates did a phenomenal job at organizing the event. The group I am in have been working hard to plan our workshop for tomorrow. I won’t give too much away but it involves activities that are focused on being in an outdoor space and do not require many materials. Today my group is working on preparing food that we harvested from the garden to make snacks for the event tomorrow as well as ironing out any little things needed for tomorrow.
Learning outdoors has inspired my teaching practice and helped me consider different ways I can bring my future class outdoors to learn, and learn with the land. Yesterday Susans department head, Samson Nashon, said, “you speak to the garden, and the garden speaks to you”, and this really resonated with me. To have a mutualistic relationship with the garden, to me, means responsibly harvesting, asking permission before harvesting, and thanking the plants and the land they are on. The Ubc Garden is located on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As a future educator it is my responsibility to make sure that my work uplifts Indigenous ways of knowing and being, and part of doing this is to recognize and honour the land we are on.
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