Joe Pitawanakwat
Joseph is Ojibway from Wiikwemkoong and is married with one daughter. He is the Founder & Director of Creators Garden, an Indigenous outdoor, and now online, education-based business, focused on plant identification and beyond-sustainable harvesting. He teaches every one of their linguistic, historical, cultural, edible, ecological and medicinal significances through experiences. His lectures and intensive programming are easily adaptable, and he has successfully delivered to a variety of organizations, including over 100 first nations communities, 20 Universities and 18 colleges and dozens of various institutions throughout Canada, the United States, and beyond. He has learned from hundreds of traditional knowledge holders and uniquely blends and reinforces it with an array of western sciences.