Where to begin a history of Migiziwazison? With the glacier that formed the unique topography of this place? With the Indigenous Nations who called this place home, created gardens, held ceremony, and hunted here for far more generations than the known post-colonial story told in plat maps and property records? We will tell those important stories in our Blog, over time.
For current purposes, the idea for creating Migiziwazison Foundation was a pure panic reflex to the thought of what would happen to this place should anything befall its founders. After years of propagating traditional foods and medicines, planting over a hundred saplings, dozens of transplanted perennials, and a few good-sized trees, we realized that none of our children wanted to continue with the work we started over 30 years ago. And we also realized that we have been blessed with far more financial resources than we, or our children, really needed. Traumatized by the idea that the next owner would raze the 160-plus year-old farm house, drain the swamp and clear the land for horse pastures, we took steps to protect this biodiverse resource for the next seven generations.