Generation Remembrance: Culturally Significant Tree Trail for Ukrainian Immigrants

2022 Community Micro-grant Winner
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Loveren Collections, Nina Lawrin

Since the war broke out in Ukraine over 400 youth have been displaced and joined the community in Metro Detroit. This project will install a tree trail and perennial food forest highlighting culturally salient Ukrainian foodways, and people-plant relationships at a Ukrainian school to help foster cultural remembrance across generations within the diaspora. The team of volunteers hopes to help foster generational ecological knowledge retention amongst Ukrainian immigrant communities in metro Detroit.