Tomorrow night, I'm facilitating a Zoom meeting with 4-5 other locals, including 2 Indigenous friends from Wsanec First Nations to organize a few local #IndigenousFoodSovereignty workshops & volunteer work parties. An important part of #decolonization is contributing towards native food sovereignty & replanting Indigenous food crops that were almost wiped out by #colonialism & theft of unceded native lands.
We'll also be discussing about non-native food crops that we may need to add to our planting efforts - because climate change acceleration requires adaptive solutions. As several of my longtime Indigenous food sovereignty friends have told me - we're not going to reject all non-native plants, if we don't believe they're big threats to our native plants. Some introduced & some invasive species are low impact & not a huge threat - so we're supposed to focus on the more aggressive & more threatening non-native plants.