City Year Denver spent the morning of Indigenous Peoples Day working with Spirit of the Sun, a local Indigenous farming nonprofit.
DENVER — The AmeriCorps members ofThe group, which supports educational equity, usually spends service days tutoring and mentoring students in under-sourced Denver-area classrooms. For Indigenous Peoples Day, their range of service included rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty. They spent the morning working with, a local Indigenous farming nonprofit that empowers Native communities through their food share program.
“We need each other to develop an ecosystem not just with the land but with each other,” Kirkpatrick said. “The more folks who have knowledge of Indigenous foodways and ways of cultivating the land in a way that is supportive of both the earth and ourselves, it’s how we are going to build a movement that is sustainable and supports the land and ourselves as community.
City Year Denver student success coach Rynn Parrack volunteered her time to help with the harvest. She said she feels it’s important to give back to those who have been disenfranchised or oppressed.
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