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Elder Audrey Logan used to build Indigenous farming sites at the old Klinic building on Broadway to teach and share traditional farming techniques<\/p>\n
In October 2018, Evan McIntosh felt drawn to join Audrey in the trenches of urban permaculture at the Deer Spirit Garden, a community-run project created by Logan in 2014 with support from Klinic Community Health and the West Broadway Community Organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowledge sharing is something that has to be done because we always, in the past, we had to hide our knowledge,\u201d Logan told Global News in a 2022 profile. \u201cA pandemic is a perfect time for people to learn about food security and how much insecurity they have.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Logan took on McIntosh as an apprentice at Spirit Park, a permaculture zone she helped establish in the early 2000s between Young and Langside streets, just north of Pal\u2019s Supermarket on Broadway.<\/p>\n
Early lessons were sage: pinch and grow, watch and learn, listen and remember. \u201cOne man\u2019s weed is another man\u2019s feed,\u201d she told Global.<\/p>\n
Logan, who died in January at the age of 61, was a Cree-M\u00e9tis garden steward, mother, grandmother and dear friend.<\/p>\n
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She was born in Edmonton and removed from her family when she was three years old, during the Sixties Scoop. Logan left the foster care system in her mid-teens to live independently and work around Alberta. At 16, Logan worked at the city racetrack in Edmonton. A few years later, she drove long-haul down the coast of California, where she met Robert Henman, a handyman and member of the U.S. Navy from Roseville, Calif.<\/p>\n At 20, the couple\u2019s daughter Tessa was born in Edmonton, while Henman was on active duty. The two remained close friends until Henman\u2019s death at age 57 in Roseville in October 2021.<\/p>\n Logan settled in Sacramento in 1994 and completed her dental assistant certificate. After the birth or her daughter, Logan felt drawn to reconnect with her birth family in Treaty 6 territory. Her maternal grandmother Mary Rose Powder was still living near Fort MacMurray, Alta., as was her aunt Katie Sanderson.<\/p>\n From these matriarchal figures, Logan learned the traditional knowledge she\u2019d eventually share with anybody who would meet her in the garden: the art of the trap, the need of the pollinator, the readiness of a berry, the flavour of the earth.<\/p>\n She moved to Winnipeg in 1998 and co-founded Spirit Park, a green space maintained by and for the neighbourhood, in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Audrey circa 2022 at Klinic Garden.<\/p>\n In its bloom, the garden features Logan\u2019s imprint: an abundance of milkweed, hyssop, comfrey and a vine of grapes overhanging the fence. Logan treasured her fruitful time in the garden with her grandchildren Abbigale, Melanie and Isaac.<\/p>\n \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \u201cShe turned so many people into gardeners,\u201d her daughter, Tessa Dueck, says. \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to know I got to be raised by such an incredible woman who overcame so much, especially in her younger years. I\u2019m very proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n A co-founder of the West Broadway Community Organization\u2019s Good Food Club, Logan was an ardent proponent of community-led, subsidized and supported food security projects.<\/p>\n A memorial celebration in her honour is planned at the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre on June 14, with a community feast and a program of sharing. The celebration will conclude with a visit to the Spirit Park community garden, where a seedling planted by Logan is now a pine tree that climbs three storeys high.<\/p>\n In lieu of flowers, plant one.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Audrey circa 2016-2018 tanning deer hides in her backyard.<\/p>\n winnipegfreepress.com\/benwaldman<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Ben Waldman Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University\u2019s (now Toronto Metropolitan University\u2019s) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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