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Osapausi Amasalichi (Little Garden of Healing) Reentry Program

Osapausi Amasalichi (Little Garden of Healing) Reentry Program. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Juvenile Detention and Reentry Green Demonstration Grantee. Strategic Planning Meeting April 2010 Our Board members collectively decided and wanted to see a garden by June 2010.

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Osapausi Amasalichi (Little Garden of Healing) Reentry Program

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  1. Osapausi Amasalichi (Little Garden of Healing)Reentry Program Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Juvenile Detention and Reentry Green Demonstration Grantee

  2. Strategic Planning Meeting April 2010 • Our Board members collectively decided and wanted to see a garden by June 2010. • Tribal Programs were present to offer resources and assistance • Due to planting late for summer harvest, decisions of what to plant was discussed • Eligibility and evaluations of participants was discussed and reviewed • Overall, if we wanted to start ASAP, we had to work Together! Where it all started…

  3. Costs • Lumber (Braces and Screws) - $1567.24 • Soil - $900.00 • Garden Tools – 114.78 • Total Amount - $2582.02 (Labor and manpower not included!) Working together is the key to success with this endeavor!

  4. Promote and educate the program to all Tribal Programs to strengthen relations for new initiatives. Get everyone involved! • Choctaw Youth Juvenile Center Administrator and Program Coordinator • Choctaw Tribal Court Services • Choctaw Agriculture and Rural Development • Constructing Design, supplying and delivering soil, and Labor! • USDA • Guidance with planting, constructing, and networking with other tribes. • Seed Sharing with other tribes • MSU Extension Branch • Soil Testing and providing insight and of what to grow and new initiatives of gardening • Choctaw Elders and Community Members • Fruits of knowledge! We live in a different time and there are tools , chemicals and alternatives to save time and energy, but understanding the true values of gardening and hearing stories from their time is invaluable . • Offering metaphoric ways of understanding life lessons by “planting the seed, nurturing and caring for it, and watching it grow”. Resources

  5. Untreated lumber • Pest /Deer management • Cayenne peppers and vinegar to keep bugs off egg plants • Spraying cologne around garden premise, only attempt to keep deer away from produce • Creating a row of corn around the rest of the main crops to prevent deer from invading HOWEVER…. The deer prevailed and ate mostly everything! (Watermelon, Okra, Peas, Sunflower, and Corn!!!) Organic Gardening

  6. Phase I

  7. Phase II

  8. Phase III

  9. Planting the seed…

  10. Watching it grow…..

  11. Cheriena Ben, Reentry Coordinator Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians P.O. 6434 Choctaw, MS 39350 601.663.7822 cheriena.ben@choctaw.org Contact Information

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