Two northern Saskatchewan communities are using gardening to increase food sovereignty and teach youth valuable skills.
The Flying Dust Market Garden has been operational since 2009. It started on a much smaller scale, but with hard work and dedication it has expanded.
Now the garden, located on Flying Dust First Nation about 250 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon, employs 20 people year-round and students during the summer months.
“We’ve just been growing slowly,” said Jason Cardinal, the garden’s manager.
“We grow about eight varieties of potatoes, and we have a huge list of vegetables that we grow. We have a fruit orchard with roughly about five different apple trees, plums, and haskaps and other berries.”
Cardinal said it also offers meat such as chickens and bison.
Most recently, it added a bee operation that helps with …