# Jane’s Walk 2023: Meeting plant families in the London Road area
Join to engage in a plant walk that will help us see how the plants around us (those we plant and those that come on their own volition) can help us (re)connect to the local stewards of these lands as well as our ancestral roots, values, and traditions. We are all part of a greater whole and connecting with our neighbourhood plants is a powerful way to come to know that we play an active role in this world. How we view it, shapes how we treat ourselves and other beings.


## Introductions
As you are introducing yourself to someone new in our Jane's walk group today, please briefly answer any of the following questions.
1. What do 'green' or 'natural' spaces mean to you?
1. What is your relationship to Lethbridge?
1. What do you know about the Lethbridge London Road neighbourhood?
1. What are some of your favourite plants?
1. Do you remember a plant that connects you to your ancestors?
1. What do you know about the local stewards, the Siksikaitsitapi, and their connections to plants?


## Grounding activity

## Plants in origin stories

## Pop Quiz
Which of the silhouettes are you familiar with?


## The generosity of plants
*What do plants offer the human and more than human kin?*

## Connecting to plants
As we are embarking on an hour-long walk, you will be using all your senses.
*What do you notice (see, hear, smell, taste, feel, dis/like)?*
* weather, wind, water
* geological and historical features
* plant life
* animal life

## Your growth this growing season
1. Regarding this coming spring, summer and fall, what are you looking forward to doing, learning, envisioning?
1. What are some of your ideas for how can we become able to live in reciprocity with our unique bioregional landscapes?

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