Thank you to everyone who registered for this session. Below the video you'll find pictures of some of the places and activities that Isaac describes. |
Isaac in the sunflowers | The Indigenous Garden at Evergreen Brickworks |
Teachings at the tipi | Youth in nature |
Building the soil | Curring the harvest |
Urban Greenspace and Land Access, the second learning session in the SOUL Equity series, will be led by Isaac Crosby.
On bringing Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous gardening and Indigenous youth to Evergreen Brickworks in downtown Toronto.
Isaac comes from a small farming town called Harrow ON, which is located 30 minutes south of Windsor. He is proud of his Ojibwa/Black Canadian heritage and looks forward to sharing their histories in this session.
He studied Landscape Horticultural Tech at Humber College and currently leads the urban agriculture programming at Evergreen Brick Works.
He incorporates his traditional First Nations farming with his colonial education to grow great crops, to teach others and to do his part in saving the Earth.
You can find more about Isaac's work here:
De-colonizing: Indigenization at Evergreen
Isaac Crosby and the gardens at Evergreen Brickworks
Walking through the Indigenous Urban Agriculture Garden
Isaac's presentation will be at 7:00PM Eastern on Thursday, November 5th.
The related discussion session will be at the same time, two weeks after Isaac's presentation.