The Gardens on Spring Creek

The Gardens on Spring Creek is honored to have been awarded funding from the U.S. Botanic Garden / American Public Gardens Association Urban Agriculture Resilience Program to partner with the local Indigenous Community to learn, plan, plant, grow, and harvest vegetables, herbs, ceremonial and medicinal plants for the Native populations’ use. This garden marks the beginning of a committed relationship between The Gardens on Spring Creek and the Native community that will continue to grow and evolve into the future.  To learn more about this incredible project, please read this blog post from our Summer 2024 Indigenous Garden intern, Atom J. Valdez of the Navajo Nation.   The Indigenous Garden   by Atom J. Valdez, Navajo Nation     The Indigenous Garden at The Gardens on Spring Creek was born out of an expressed need by the local Indigenous community for access to space to grow spiritual, medicinal, and food plants for the community.  Assimilation into Western societ...