Harmony Eshkawkogan
Hello, my name is Harmony Eshkawkogan, I am from Wiikwemikong, and I live in Ottawa. I am a part of the Three Fires tribe and use she/her pronouns. My clain is Pike and I am at artist. I have been a helper for 5 years at the Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G), a non-profit organization and Indigenous youth-led group a on unceded Algonquin territory that offers community and cultural support with a grassroots lens. I stay connected to the land by helping the A7G's community garden. A7G garden started as a 10ft garden plot to grow various vegetables and medicines to be shared back into the community. A7G currently has four community garden plots in different parts of the city.
Gitigan
My community gardening project addresses food security and helps Indigenous youth access traditional medicine and fresh produce in the city. The medicine garden allows Indigenous people to access sage and sweetgrass for free. It is sustainable to teach the next generation to grow their own food in response to rising food prices. Provide beading kits to honour residential school survivors. Indigenous youth will have the opportunity to be on the land, learn about their culture and be in the community.
About this Project
Communities Served
My project will involve and/or impact the following communities:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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How the project works
Weed, water and harvest the garden in the summer. Fall harvest the produce and share it back into the community. For September 30th, we will offer beading kits for the public and host a beading circle to honour Residential School survivors. In October, we celebrate the garden helpers of 2025.
Project Impact
Urban Indigenous youth can access fresh produce, sacred medicines, and beading supplies. Community gardens are safer spaces for Indigenous youth to be on the land in urban areas, allowing them to connect with their culture. By growing plants and beading heart pins, youth honour their ancestors and strengthen cultural identity
Project Mission
Connecting urban Indigenous youth to community garden and beading. Share vegetables, medicine, and beading kits with the community. Giveaway beading kits with instructions to make heart pins to commemorate the survivors and descendants of residential school and the children that never made it home. Encourage urban Indigenous youth to be on the land by helping with community garden.
Project Team
Assembly of 7 Generations supports urban Indigenous youth. The garden is open to any Indigenous community members in Ottawa with priority to youth.
- Harmony, Gabby, Josh, Brie, Cedar, Cece, Aura, Chelsea, Junior, Cedar, Shade, Julianna,
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