Introducing the NENQAYNI Initiative
NENQAYNI is a Tsilhqot’in word that translates to ‘people/person of the land’. This word is not discriminate based upon skin colour, sex, gender, or profession. As it has been taught, permaculture, describes what indigenous culture has maintained for thousands and tens of thousands of years. What NENQAYNI Earth Design aims to accomplish is to implement regenerative environmental design into garden and agricultural systems that produce healing and transformative experiences.
The non-profit side of the NENQAYNI initiative is to foster training and catalyze capacity building for First Nations community garden and food sovereignty coordinators, employers, and representatives. This project focuses on bringing together traditional ecological knowledge from nenqayni throughout North and South America; to bridge the forgotten gap between peoples who still share similar ways to work with, honour, and protect the last remaining biospheres on the planet.
This will occur by facilitating permaculture and food sovereignty training trips to countries like Mexico and Peru — embodying the time-tested ways of teaching and learning: experientially.