'If the land takes care of us, then it's our responsibility to take care of the land.'
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 2:14PMA garden in Albany Park is teaching the community about the importance of native plants and Chicago's first settlers.
The First Nations Garden was founded in 2019. It was an effort from Chi-Nation Youth Council youth to try to find a centralized location for their medicines and foods, according to Janie Pochel who is both the founder of the garden and the council. "It's important that the land gets treated how it deserves, like if the land takes care of us, then it's our responsibility to take care of the land," said Pochel."We're sitting on a former printing press so we're sitting on a lot of toxins," said Pochel.
They began by planting specific prairie plants in the garden that absorb hazardous contaminants like chemicals and heavy metals through a biochemical process called"It's something that we've learned but we didn't have the words for it," said Pochel. "We don't want to learn from a book on how to utilize these plants and do it wrong so we make sure that the knowledge that we get with the plants is taught to us by elders or other community members.
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