'If the land takes care of us, then it's our responsibility to take care of the land.'
The First Nations Garden in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood teaches the community about the importance of native plants.A garden in Albany Park is teaching the community about the importance of native plants and Chicago's first settlers.
Pochel said they make sure to grow their four sacred medicines of sage, sweet grass, tobacco and cedar in the garden. They began by planting specific prairie plants in the garden that absorb hazardous contaminants like chemicals and heavy metals through a biochemical process called"It's something that we've learned but we didn't have the words for it," said Pochel. "We don't want to learn from a book on how to utilize these plants and do it wrong so we make sure that the knowledge that we get with the plants is taught to us by elders or other community members.
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