Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening
As a community-based participatory research project designed to promote health and wellbeing, Growing Resilience supports home gardens for 96 primarily Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho families in the Wind River Reservation, located in Wyoming. Through analysis of data from two years of qualit...
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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
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| author | Rachael Budowle Melvin Arthur Christine Porter |
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| description | As a community-based participatory research project designed to promote health and wellbeing, Growing Resilience supports home gardens for 96 primarily Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho families in the Wind River Reservation, located in Wyoming. Through analysis of data from two years of qualitative fieldwork, including stories told by 53 gardeners and members of the project’s community advisory board in talking circles and through our novel sovereign storytelling method, we investigated if and how these participants employ relationships, knowledge, and practices across generations through home gardening. We find that participants describe home gardening within present, past, future, and cross-generational frames, rooted in family relationships and knowledge shared across generations. Our analysis of these themes suggests that gardening provides families a means to transmit resilience across generations or, as we call it here, intergenerational resilience. We conclude by discussing intergenerational resilience as a culturally specific mechanism of social-ecological community resilience that may be particularly relevant in Indigenous movements for food sovereignty. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e6bdb39ced044bf3992c01865f4e98012023-09-02T18:43:28ZengLyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012019-10-019B10.5304/jafscd.2019.09B.006Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home GardeningRachael Budowle0Melvin Arthur1Christine Porter2University of WyomingUniversity of WyomingUniversity of WyomingAs a community-based participatory research project designed to promote health and wellbeing, Growing Resilience supports home gardens for 96 primarily Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho families in the Wind River Reservation, located in Wyoming. Through analysis of data from two years of qualitative fieldwork, including stories told by 53 gardeners and members of the project’s community advisory board in talking circles and through our novel sovereign storytelling method, we investigated if and how these participants employ relationships, knowledge, and practices across generations through home gardening. We find that participants describe home gardening within present, past, future, and cross-generational frames, rooted in family relationships and knowledge shared across generations. Our analysis of these themes suggests that gardening provides families a means to transmit resilience across generations or, as we call it here, intergenerational resilience. We conclude by discussing intergenerational resilience as a culturally specific mechanism of social-ecological community resilience that may be particularly relevant in Indigenous movements for food sovereignty.https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/747Intergenerational ResilienceFood SovereigntyCommunity ResilienceSocial-Ecological SystemsSovereign StorytellingGrowing Resilience |
| spellingShingle | Rachael Budowle Melvin Arthur Christine Porter Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Intergenerational Resilience Food Sovereignty Community Resilience Social-Ecological Systems Sovereign Storytelling Growing Resilience |
| title | Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening |
| title_full | Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening |
| title_fullStr | Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening |
| title_full_unstemmed | Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening |
| title_short | Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening |
| title_sort | growing intergenerational resilience for indigenous food sovereignty through home gardening |
| topic | Intergenerational Resilience Food Sovereignty Community Resilience Social-Ecological Systems Sovereign Storytelling Growing Resilience |
| url | https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/747 |
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