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.
Simple front and back lawns can be turned into drip-lined gardens and abundant food forests, soil cycle toilets can turn human waste into premium fertilizer for orchard trees and habitat restoration, and strategically-placed pollinators can accentuate a bountiful harvest. NENQAYNI Earth Design intents to bring permaculture and regernative food systems to the everyday architecture of our world. For more information:
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, Central, 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 exciting capacity-building project will occur by facilitating permaculture and food sovereignty training trips to countries like Mexico and Peru — where First Nations can experience a similar but different way of living with the land by peoples who share the same values of conservation, protection, and stewardship. During the winter season in Canada, participants can enjoy educational, cultural, nature-based experiences with our NENQAYNI team. For more information: