Food Forest to Add Native Indigenous Plants

On Thursday, August 31, at 5:30 p.m., the community is invited to a special event at the Sheridan Food Forest. The Food Forest team of volunteers is developing an indigenous garden of traditional native plants that’s being designed by the Piney Island Native Plants ethnobotanist team, Alisha Bretzman and David Malituch in collaboration with ethnobotanist and Northern Cheyenne elder, Linwood Tall Bull and his son, Randall. The native plants are also from PINP.

The Tall Bull’s will present a talk on Native Cheyenne plants and plant lore, plant some of the plants, and give an indigenous blessing of the new garden.

Powder River Basin Resource Council provides fiduciary management for the Food Forest. Carol LeResch, the founder and lead person on the Food Forest, has long had a dream to add an indigenous garden to the forest.

The team at PINP are the experts on the design of the garden, the source for native plants, and the liaison with the Tall Bulls.

Please contact Pennie Vance for more information and/or assistance in contacting these primary sources of deeper knowledge on the event. Email penniev@powderriverbasin.org