Enhance Your Food Supply: Advice from Native American Master Gardeners

Yes! magazine published this article in May 2020. For more on the Traditional Native American Farmers Association online 2020 permaculture-design course, email tnafa_org@yahoo.com. For more on topics like this, see American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion . In the Cheyenne River Youth Project garden, excellent soil and hard work produce great veggies M any Americans are now experiencing an erratic food supply for the first time. Among COVID-19’s disruptions are bare supermarket shelves and items available yesterday but nowhere to be found today. As you seek ways to replace them, you can look to Native gardens for ideas and inspiration. “Working in a garden develops your relationship to the land,” says Aubrey Skye, a Hunkpapa Lakota gardener . “Our ancestors understood that. Look at the old pictures. It’s etched on their faces. When you understand it as well, a sense of scarcity and insecurity transforms into a feeling of abund