Services

  • Free Metis Education Kits

The Niagara Region Metis Council is mailing out FREE Metis Education activities to children in the community, who are interested in learning more about Metis lifeways and traditions!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Adult Bereavement Group 

With the help of Hospice Niagara and Reverend Val Kerr, NCNW has started an Adult Bereavement Group. Please contact us for more information.

  • Community Garden – Teaching/Healing Garden

Interested in learning about soil preparations, seedlings, plantings, tending and harvesting?  Want to know more about Indigenous medicines, traditions related to their cycles, care, harvest and usage? One of our programs, Circle of Care is overseeing the development of our Community Teaching / Healing Garden.  Get in touch with us for more information or to volunteer to participate.  Those who work with the Teaching / Healing Garden also share in the harvest.  Little ones are welcome to join in the fun.  Get in touch with the Circle of Care program.

Natalie and her two volunteers from Niagara College Horticulture program preparing and planting the circle bed (BEFORE).
Natalie and her two volunteers from Niagara College Horticulture program preparing and planting the circle bed (AFTER).
Learning more about sweetgrass and its spiritual and medicinal properties.
Randy, the Deputy Fire Chief of Fort Erie, braiding some sweetgrass.
Gabriella Ruiz participating in the sweetgrass braiding.
Zach Dadson – Outreach & Community Engagement Lead for Chris Bittle, St. Catharines MP joining in.
Anna Bozza, Executive Director at FACS Niagara, braiding sweetgrass.
Val Ghosen braiding sweetgrass with Bonnie Brant looking on.
Summer 2018 – Our summer student Chandler is working hard in the garden.
 
 
July 2018 – The garden is coming together with the amazing work of our dedicated volunteers.