Zaníyan Growing Resilience Project
The Zaníyan Growing Resilience Project aims to empower communities by sharing resources for growing food and making plant medicine, fostering both health and a deep connection to the earth. While our outreach focuses on tribal communities, we serve people of all backgrounds and nations.
Our ongoing initiatives include a neighborhood library, a free food pantry, and a community fridge where we share fresh produce, seeds, and plant starts. Each spring, we provide gardening baskets to elders and families in need.
We also participate in events such as powwows, fairs, and festivals, distributing seeds, starts, and educational materials. We offer or facilitate workshops and conferences that promote resilience, including emergency preparedness.
We believe that true resilience and self-reliance begin with growing or gathering your own food and medicine. Food sovereignty is crucial not only for Indigenous tribes but for all people, helping to reduce dependence on the corporate systems that dominate our food supply.
Ongoing
Library and Food Pantry Located on Shirley Street in Eugene, this Little Library, Food Pantry, and Free Fridge serves the Santa Clara neighborhood with books, free food, and garden produce, as well as seeds, and vegetable starts in the spring.
Tabling at Events like fairs, festivals and powwows to give away seeds, starts, information, and resources on growing herbs, plant medicine, and emergency preparedness.
2024 Events
- LCC Powwow April 6, 2024 Lane Community College Eugene, OR
- NW Tribal Food Sovereignty Coalition gathering Sept 2-4, Heritage University, Takoma nation, Toppenish, WA. Read more…
- Okanogan Barter Fair, Oct 11-13, 2024 Tonasket, WA, Read more…
Publications
Fiction as Seeds for Change
Zaniyan Center is pleased to sponsor the publication of the debut novel of our founder, Daphne Singingtree, Circle for the Earth A Time Travel Saga for a Sustainable Future. This book raises interesting questions of how we could make changes for the better, from empowering Indigenous people, to using modern knowledge to make positive changes. Available on Amazon or here…
Nonfiction
Eagletree Herbs Guide to Medicine Making
With practical expertise and hard-won insights, gained in over fifty years of Medicine Making, Daphne Singingtree guides readers in crafting and marketing herbal products, while imparting valuable lessons learned along the way—inspiration for the next generation of medicine makers.
Through her story and teachings, Daphne Singingtree passes on a legacy of herbal knowledge, empowering readers to harness the power of plants and continue the tradition of natural medicine making.
Available on Amazon or here…
100% of the proceeds from both books goes to further the mission of Zaniyan Center.
Handouts
Comfrey as Free Organic Fertilizer
Workshops
August 8, 2024 Lost Valley Holistic Sustainability Seminar
Healing Our Relationship With the Plant People
Integrative Medicine Clinics at Standing Rock Protests
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 10 am-4 pm
1-2 pm Herbs for the Zombie Apocalypse
With a focus on growing and making herbal products to have on hand for a variety of unexpected emergencies. Also discussed will be which permaculture plants to grow to increase your self-reliance if there are breakdowns in accessing usual resources. Herbs for emergencies like smoke from wildfires, trauma and stress, first aid, and disorders seen in these circumstances.
Daphne Singingtree is an author, plant and midwifery educator, and water protector. Her debut speculative fiction book, Circle for the Earth, is due out June 2024.
2-3 pm Trash or treasure? Weeds you can eat
Amble through the garden, reassessing everything you thought you knew about weeds. Trusty, sturdy, and indestructible power packs of delicious nutrition: weeds will always be there, even when mass-produced soy and corn fail us. Identification and cooking/preparation tips from botanist and wild food nerd extraordinaire Heron Brae.
Heron Brae is a rogue botanist, herbalist, community restoration practitioner, Indigenous solidarity activist, and educator. She currently offers custom wild plant-related classes and consulting, as well as coaching decolonizing initiatives, as a part of Live Oak Consulting. Regularly seen crying by rivers and dancing in mountain meadows, she hopes that sharing plant knowledge will aid in shifting worldviews, reconnecting with roots, and creating a habitable future for all.
3-4 pm Tending Culture through Food Forests
Learn about permaculture food forests as we examine one in progress on Shirley Street. Discussing considerations in design and planting strategies. How plants interact and how to keep a food forest healthy.
Khyla Allis lives and teaches in the intentional community at Lost Valley Education Center, where she received her Permaculture Design and Ecovillage Design Education certifications. As the Garden Coordinator at Lost Valley, she teaches tree pruning, worms, soil science, compost, farm-to-table, preservation, and edible mushrooms in your garden.
Workshop suggested donation: $20-40 or one-two hours of garden and yard work (done in advance on your schedule)
Contact daphnesingingtree@gmail.com for more information
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