About Us
At Elemental Earth Gardens we take pride in growing our vegetables and fruit just the way our ancestors did.
Using all natural, spray free, no till methods means that you can rest easy knowing the produce you and your family consumes is grown GMO free, without harmful pesticides or fertilizers, using methods that honour and enrich the land for generations to come.
We want to do our part to create a healthy future for our planet, our family and our community. Growing food that sustains and creates health on all levels is a passion for our family.
Thank you for choosing Elemental Earth Gardens!
Using all natural, spray free, no till methods means that you can rest easy knowing the produce you and your family consumes is grown GMO free, without harmful pesticides or fertilizers, using methods that honour and enrich the land for generations to come.
We want to do our part to create a healthy future for our planet, our family and our community. Growing food that sustains and creates health on all levels is a passion for our family.
Thank you for choosing Elemental Earth Gardens!
My name is Aimée-Mihkohkwaniy McGillis.
I am Indigenous (Michif/Cree/Ojibwe/French/Scottish), Autistic/ADHD, Seed keeper, farmer, interdisciplinary artist, and mother. My responsibilities and commitments are to intergenerational healing, decolonization, the earth, community and cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the land.
How we grow on our farm is deeply important to me. The way food is grown can create major change, for the health of our bodies, communities and for the healing and health of the planet. This is Sacred work for me as I strive to be a good ancestor for my descendants, and all my relations. We use all natural, no-till, regenerative style practices to build soil health, weaving Indigenous knowledge and tradition into the way we grow our produce.
**For transparency because of the ongoing issue with false claims to Indigeniety within our Indigenous communities, i would like to share some of my geneology publicly. I am Indigenous on my fathers side. The first Indigenous ancestor to marry a settler in both my Grandmothers and Grandfathers bloodlines were in the 1700s. Since then my Ancestors married Michif or First Nations exclusively, until my dads generation when he and some of his siblings and 1st cousins also married settlers. My family have been language keepers(Michif/Nehiyawewin/Anishnaabemowin/Lakota) and traditional knowledge keepers throughout the genocide of colonization. I continue to pass on our traditions to my children. My Nohkom(grandmother), Moshom(Grandfather), and Notawiy(dad) were all born and raised in the Willowbunch/St. Victor area of Saskatchewan, and were/are all language keepers, and traditional knowledge keepers. My Moshom Hyacinth McGillis, has roots from Rocky Boy, MT, Turtle Mountain, ND, and St-Francois Xavier, MB (Red River Settlement). My Nohkom Virginie McGillis (nee Gaudry) has roots in Rocky Boy, MT, Wood Mountain, SK and the Red River Settlement of MB. I am a registered citizen of the Manitoba Metis Nation through the Manitoba Metis Federation for over 25 years.
My mothers side, is of white, french settler descent who settled in Sask, and Manitoba.
Hi my name is Geert, I am originally from Belgium and moved to Canada in 2013. My ancestors were farmers and cultivated the lands with plows and horses. I learned to grow vegetables from my grandparents and my parents who had their own gardens and raised their own livestock. Life put me on many different paths, teaching me the ways of the land and of business.
It wasn't until I started growing plants that I felt like I had found my purpose.
I feel it is imperative for the longevity of all people and the health of the earth that we change the way we do agriculture. The creatures and plants and minerals are deeply intertwined with our own existence and we cannot do without them.
This is why on our farm we utilize practices that reduce soil disturbance, improve soil quality and try to mimic natural systems of using mulches so that future generations have a healthy space to co-exist with.
It wasn't until I started growing plants that I felt like I had found my purpose.
I feel it is imperative for the longevity of all people and the health of the earth that we change the way we do agriculture. The creatures and plants and minerals are deeply intertwined with our own existence and we cannot do without them.
This is why on our farm we utilize practices that reduce soil disturbance, improve soil quality and try to mimic natural systems of using mulches so that future generations have a healthy space to co-exist with.
