Project Support: Ucwalmicw Organic Garden and Food Security Project

The Ucwalmicw Centre provides training and services to aboriginal peoples from seven communities in the Lillooet area. Funding supports the youth-initiated Ucwalmicw Organic Community garden and an annual harvest gathering where Elders share agricultural knowledge with the youth. The gathering includes workshops on traditional foods and food preparation, such as how to cook with a cob oven the youth built and how to cook the traditional way using a pit. Both the garden and gathering were strategies undertaken to develop food security and address climate impacts in the community.