Victoria Buffalo Robe

My mom and I are enjoying an incredibly delicious cup of fermented fireweed tea! It tastes like Darjeeling but it is not caffeinated and it has amazing health benefits.
We are starting our first batch this year to explore and experiment what fermenting some of our indigenous foods might look like!
Stay tuned… I may have some for the market August 7th 🫖 🌱🪶

Happy Indigenous day and the first day of summer! Hear is to celebrating the coolest and the best dressed people ever!

Workshop announcement 📣

Botanical Oil Infusions with Victoria Buffalo Robe

Sunday, June 9, 2024
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
$5
Register: link in the bio

Learn about Indigenous foods and medicines growing in Trout Lake’s Medicine Wheel Garden! Join us monthly for hands-on experience tending the garden, harvesting, and medicine making. Garden tending and harvesting at 1:30pm, followed by tea and snacks! The workshop will begin at 2:30pm. All supplies are included.

This month in the garden, we welcome Victoria Buffalo Robe, Nehiyaw Iskwew permaculturalist, and herbalism and holistic health enthusiast. Victoria will be guiding us through the process of making a botanical oil infusion which can be used for daily skincare. Find out more about Holistic Buffalo, Victoria’s line of sustainable, regenerative skincare products.

This project has been supported through the Neighbourhood Matching Fund program of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and the Trout Lake Community Centre Association, in partnership with Cedar Cottage Food Network, Community Garden Roots, and Lu’Ma Medical Centre Society.

Today is plant dye day with .makes and the Britannia Textiles and Bio 11 students. We are so excited 😆

The Potato Park in Peru is moving the needle closer to food security as it relates to climate adaptation with practices that are over 7000 years old! Wow 🤩

Peru's Potato Museum: A Solution to the World Food Crisis? - Hasan Jasim In the face of a rapidly changing climate and increasing threats to global food security, scientists have turned to a unique resource: Peru’s Potato Park. Located high in the Andes, this living museum is home to a vast diversity of potato varieties, providing a potential solution to the challenges...

Update: The cotton wood buds are still infusing! I will keep y’all posted for the final product! I will check on it periodically but won’t extract till it has steeped for 6months or more! 🤩 spoiler: it smells amazing!

Market announcement 📣
Come through this weekend to the . I will be there Feb 17, 18th and Feb 24th, 25th!!

Flowers in the winter are soul food 😌

When you have over a hundred guests for the winter… but they are super low maintenance lol
Mason bee hotel at rest for the season 🐝 No predators here.