Wiidookodaadiyang Giniigaanayi'iiminaaning - “Working Together for our Future”

A filled loading tray. There are 30 seed blocks (Styrofoam) in each tray. Here two employees prepare to move one of the trays to a different greenhouse on a ‘caddy’. They have this ‘caddy’ to use as the trays weigh 75 pound. At the old greenhouse, they were moved by hand. 5416 ¬ The employees move the seed block loading trays to one of the greenhouse¹s on the ‘caddy’.

Machines and people working

The employees move the seed block loading trays to one of the greenhouse¹s on the ‘caddy’.

Whitefeather-Spears shows off one of the five huge wood burning stoves

Wood ready for winter purchased from Red Lake loggers. Last year the Greenhouse burned 200 cords

Peat moss is spread over the seed blocks and then ready for planting. About 150 trees will be planted in each seed block, 30 seed blocks to a tray, and 57 trays in each greenhouse. That¹s over a quarter million trees in each greenhouse.

Seed trays come through a machine after the seed has been planted

Gloria points out some of the functions of the computer that controls many aspects of the greenhouse

Gloria Whitefeather-Spears poses with a smile and her quarter million pines that will bring back the great forests of Red Lake