Researching, conserving, and enhancing culturally important plant resources in Portland, Oregon for Native American Indian traditions, feeding homeless, urban nature for youth and more.
Cities are often places built over traditional Indian gathering grounds, pioneer farms and orchards, and/or places where green spaces are for walking through but not interacting with. This project shows how even an urban environment can be an important source of foods, medicines, craft materials, and more for the local population. With good research, smart planning, and demonstration activities the project will show how ethnobotany is a tool for vesting people in the well-being of their city.
Initial focus is on identifying urban foraging resources and users to understand existing use patterns. This includes ancient oaks that predate pioneers all the way to contemporary fruit gleaners.
The project hopes to model to other cities the value of ethnobotanical resources to make urban centers more self-sufficient, resilient, and places where residents are intimately connected to plant resources.
"Every month we take tribal elders out around the city to help identify old trees used for food and medicines, we need help before they are all gone because of development and ignorance."
- Member of Local Indian Tribe, Cultural Protection
Total Funding Received to Date: $75
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $75 . The original project funding goal was $24,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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