KISS The Soil Food Forest

05/09/2023

We've prepared the following lists of recommended native plants that are highly attractive to pollinators such as native bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds, and are well-suited for small-scale plantings in gardens, on business and school campuses, in urban greenspaces, and in far...

11/02/2022

"Crowfoot stood and watched as the white man spread many one dollar bills on the ground.
“This is what the white man trades with; this is his buffalo robe. Just as you trade skins, we trade with these pieces of paper.”
When the white chief had laid all his money on the ground and shown how much he would give if the Indians would sign a treaty, Crowfoot took a handful of clay, made a ball out of it and put it on the fire.
It did not crack.
Then he said to the white man, Now put your money on the fire and see if it will last as long as the clay.
The white man said, No….my money will burn because it is made of paper.
With an amused gleam in his eyes the old chief said, Oh, your money is not as good as our land, is it?
The wind will blow it away; the fire will burn it; water will rot it. But nothing will destroy our land.
You don’t make a very good trade.
Then with a smile, Crowfoot picked up a handful of sand from the river bank, handed it to the white man and said, You count the grains of sand in that while I count the money you give for the land.
The white man said, I would not live long enough to count this, but you can count the money in a few minutes.
Very well, said the wise Crowfoot, our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever.
It will not perish as long as the sun shines and the water flows, and through all the years it will give life to men and animals, and therefore we cannot sell the land.
It was put there by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not really belong to us.
You can count your money and burn it with a nod of a buffalo’s head, but only the Great Spirit can count the grains of sand and the blades of grass on these plains.
As a present we will give you anything you can take with you, but we cannot give you the land.”
Chief Crowfoot : Blackfoot Confederacy
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10/25/2022

Did you know:
Native American Indians used pumpkin as a staple in their diets centuries before the pilgrims landed.
They also dried strips of pumpkin and wove them into mats.
Pumpkins were grown alongside corn and beans as one of the mythological
Three Sisters of agriculture. Indians would also roast long strips of pumpkin on the open fire and eat them.
When settlers arrived, they saw the pumpkins grown by the Indians and pumpkin soon became a staple in their diets.
As today, early settlers used them in a wide variety of recipes from desserts to stews and soups.
The origin of pumpkin pie is thought to have occurred when the colonists sliced off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds, and then filled it with milk, spices and honey.
The pumpkin was then baked in the hot ashes of a dying fire.

10/22/2022

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans and its associated MyPlate graphic are commonly referenced resources for learning about healthy and nutritious eating. The recently-updated 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans put a stronger focus on meeting dietary recommendations while keeping cultu...

10/17/2022

Contrary to popular belief, Christopher Columbus never set foot on mainland North America. But hundreds and even thousands of years before him, there were plenty of other people who did. While Icelandic Viking Leif Erikson beat Columbus to America by half a millennium, scholars have also theorized that explorers from Asia, Africa, and even Ice Age Europe may have likewise journeyed to the New World before Columbus.

But either way, there were already millions of people living in highly-developed societies and sophisticated urban centers across America before the colonizers even arrived. Learn the real history of who discovered America first: https://bit.ly/3cD8xZ9

10/10/2022