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All upcoming meetings will be held virtually (via Zoom). Please click on the Zoom link provided to join the program or register for free to join.
Meeting Schedule: 7:00 pm Welcome 7:05 pm Announcements 7:10 pm Program/Presentation |
All of our meetings and garden tours are free and open to the public. Please invite a friend! |
Wednesday, October 12th - 7 pm
Reviving Heritage: Conservation Through Indigenous Culture
In 2019, Belwin Conservancy and Anishinabe Academy formed a partnership to provide space for urban Indigenous students to reconnect with traditional cultural and ecological teachings, the ancestral lands of the Wahpekute Dakota people, and Dakota and Ojibwe languages. After securing funding in 2021 from the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF), the partnership was formalized and together Belwin and Anishinabe Academy selected a 19-acre parcel which contains three major biomes found at Belwin: Wooded/Floodplain, Oak Savanna, and Prairie
Grasslands.
Join us to hear more about how this partnership seeks to link natural resource management, cultural heritage, and indigenous land-based education, to restore an ecologically significant area of land, while fostering multi-generational environmental stewardship and restoration of Indigenous culture.
Grasslands.
Join us to hear more about how this partnership seeks to link natural resource management, cultural heritage, and indigenous land-based education, to restore an ecologically significant area of land, while fostering multi-generational environmental stewardship and restoration of Indigenous culture.
About Belwin Conservancy: Belwin is a nonprofit nature conservancy with a mission of inspiring connection and engagement with the natural world. Belwin sparks passion for wild places through a variety of innovative experiential programs that include the arts, astronomy, athletic fields, bison, education, and public access to our restored lands. Through land protection and habitat restoration, we revive threatened ecosystems so wildlife can thrive for generations to come. Located in Aon, Minnesota, the ancestral home of the Wahpekute Dakota people, Belwinʼs 1,500 acres of permanently protected land includes woodland, prairie, oak savanna, ponds, streams, and wetlands.
Learn more at belwin.org.
About Anishinabe Academy: Anishinabe Academy is a K-5 Minneapolis Public School dedicated to serving and educating urban Indigenous students through a Native lens, with a Native-centered curriculum, and through Dakota and Ojibwe language. Anishinabe Academy has been enriching the lives of its students, their families, and community through dedication to the principles of our seven grandfather teachings: Truth, Respect, Honesty, Love, Wisdom, Humility and Courage. As a MPS community school focusing on Native American language and culture, our values are fundamental to the foundation of all our programs, ensuring every child learns to value our seven teachings, self and others.
Learn more at anishinabe.mpls.k12.mn.us/Home
Learn more at belwin.org.
About Anishinabe Academy: Anishinabe Academy is a K-5 Minneapolis Public School dedicated to serving and educating urban Indigenous students through a Native lens, with a Native-centered curriculum, and through Dakota and Ojibwe language. Anishinabe Academy has been enriching the lives of its students, their families, and community through dedication to the principles of our seven grandfather teachings: Truth, Respect, Honesty, Love, Wisdom, Humility and Courage. As a MPS community school focusing on Native American language and culture, our values are fundamental to the foundation of all our programs, ensuring every child learns to value our seven teachings, self and others.
Learn more at anishinabe.mpls.k12.mn.us/Home
Click on the following Zoom link at 7 pm, Wednesday, October 12th to join the meeting:
https://wildones-org.zoom.us/j/82684768138?pwd=Um9HSTFBYkVrYzZzNnl0OE9GQXFrUT09
https://wildones-org.zoom.us/j/82684768138?pwd=Um9HSTFBYkVrYzZzNnl0OE9GQXFrUT09
Wednesday, November 9th - 7 pm
Restoring Your Shoreline
Minnesota has 44,926 miles of lake shoreline and 138,400 miles of river shoreline, and as Minnesotans we are incredibly lucky to live and experience all of the delights that these water bodies provide. Unfortunately, we love a lot of those miles to the point of degradation. Water and other recreation activities, run-off from impervious surfaces, invasive species, ice heave, and other disturbances make these shorelines prone to erosion. Many privately owned shorelines employ turf grass as the landscaping choice, a short-rooted non-native plant that does little to prevent erosion.
Natural Shore has decades of experience restoring these shorelines with deep-rooted, diverse native plants. Through custom design and installation plans, continued and targeted maintenance, and locally grown pesticide-free Minnesota native plants, Natural Shore is a full-service ecological restoration company dedicated to improving and preserving Minnesota's publicly and privately owned shorelines. Join NST Maintenance Coordinators Tracy and Martina as they share their shoreline restoration process- together we can restore and maintain the Minnesota shoreline miles we love.
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Click on the following Zoom link at 7 pm, Wednesday, November 9th to join the meeting:
https://wildones-org.zoom.us/j/89967016868?pwd=SmRuM2tCRG9FZVNwdG5icFNmekphQT09
https://wildones-org.zoom.us/j/89967016868?pwd=SmRuM2tCRG9FZVNwdG5icFNmekphQT09