Land based learning is an Indigenous learning methodology in pedagogy and andragogy expressed through the connection to the world around us. It is a spiritual, natural, hands on, integrated into the environment, intellectual, philosophical, and practical learning that heals the fracture of siloed specialisations and regroups them back into a multidisciplinary way of learning as holistic beings.
Through land based learning, we are grounded and making decisions based on our integration in the world around us. Our connections become explicit by working all other teachings into a grounded knowledge based on the genesis of all life – the earth, the water, the air and sky, all the elements and relations that share a connection with us, which is all of creation. We learn through learning the land. We learn by remembering and learning Indigenous survival. We remember to take only what we can replace, to use what we can only give back, and to enrich the environments around us.
About a Fire
Edit: this isn’t comprehensive. There are many, many factors and feedback loops I can list. I wanted to get this post out pretty quickly so bear with the language and non comprehensive edition of forest fire knowledge. After the Fire There is a lot that happens after. I am not even getting into the trauma […]
Opening the Land
The beginning of a new garden Ahhhh the soil was opened tonight with great care. There is about 2-4 inches of topsoil over the deep white sand dunes. The topsoil i got today is going to go a long way for tomatoes and other soil loving beings. But the sand is going to be great […]
Skunk Cabbage
Where water and fire become plant There’s some plants that seem to defy things you know about the plant world. Some have uncanny feeding mechanisms – more in common for diet with possums and skunks are the sundews and pitcher plants as meat eating and insectivores. Some have fascinating defence mechanisms that target humans, and […]
How to Eat Artichokes Without Talking Out of Your Ass
Anishinaabe Worldview, Western Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants By Maya Chacaby Sometimes things hit in all the best ways. My cousin Maya Chacaby wrote this… Originally posted to Facebook: I was so in love with my Cousin Zhooshkwa Begonebijiged Chartrand Belair‘s piece on the troubles with how that braiding sweetgrass book has been taken […]
People ask me – what about Rewilding?
All western conservation systems, including rewilding, view land and all our relations as “resource,” our mammalian kin as “game vs non-game species” while window dressing with some veneer of greater spiritual abundance in relationship with land.
