Some P.E.I.
students are growing their knowledge of the province's agricultural past by planting three distinctive gardens that showcase the traditions of the Mi'kmaw, Acadians and Scottish. The program is called Agri-CULTURE Seeds of Change, and is funded by Canadian Heritage's official languages program. "The main point of the whole thing is that we're all in this together, and we all have more similarities than we do differences," said Jason MacNeil, education and programming officer with the P.
E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation.
"People have been cultivating food throughout history and it's just a nice way for [students] to pause and look back and realize that it's not just their history, that there are other layers of history that have done similar things throughout time." Jason MacNeil, the education and programing officer with the P.E.
I. Museum and Heritage Foundation, says the point of the program is to show students that people have more similarities than differences. (Rob LeClair/CBC) Students from Mount Stewart Consolidated, École François-Buote, and Souris Regional School are taking part in the project.
MacNeil said the students started by doing research about each of the cultural groups and their agricultural traditions. "Visibly, they're quite different. The French garden is very symmetrical.
You have raised beds inside a fenced area, and things are grown in a very kind of orderly, sort of organized fashion," he said. "The Mi'kmaw tradition, they grow on mo.
