Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardeing

Rachael Budowle, Melvin Arthur, and Christine Porter

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Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardeing

Rachael Budowle, Melvin Arthur, and Christine Porter

Abstract

Growing Resilience, a community-based participatory research project designed to promote health and wellbeing, provided installation and maintenance support for home food gardens to 96 primarily Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho families living in the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The authors of this study investigated how participants' stories about gardens are rooted in family relationships, knowledge, and practices through time. In present, past, future, and cross-generational frames, families transmitted resilience through gardening across generations.