{"id":10197,"date":"2022-06-02T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=10197"},"modified":"2022-06-02T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:15:09","slug":"land-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/land-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m in Calgary visiting family and friends, and I\u2019ve decided to write about a beautiful local project that brings community members together to share traditions and strengthen community relationships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccisab.ca\/services\/urban-farming.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land of Dreams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> project developed as a partnership between the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccisab.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calgary Catholic Immigration Society<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (CCIS), which offers settlement and integration services for newcomers in Calgary and several other southern Alberta communities, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/miskanawah.ca\/?27&amp;post=22\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miskanawah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Cree multi-service organisation, and a number of recently arrived immigrants and refugees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land of Dreams is a community-led urban farming initiative that brings newcomers together to connect with the land, visit, learn, share, and grow food together on a 32-acre plot of land in southeast Calgary. The idea was born in 2017, when a large number of Yazidi, Kurdish, and Syrian refugees, many with experience in agriculture back home, arrived in Calgary. 2019 marked the first growing season and involved 16 families. This <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ef0xrWz4ZY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (in French with English subtitles) offers a look at the land and some of the project participants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A key aspect of Land of Dreams is to build connections between Indigenous peoples and newcomers. In 2020, Siksika Elders, Kelly and Daphne Goodeagle led a special Land Blessing Ceremony at the garden (see image).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Image: Land of Dreams Miskanawah Elders Blessing Ceremony, CCIS annual report 2020\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10199,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[63],"class_list":["post-10197","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/10197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}