Ingrid is a founder of Ancestral Food Ways . Ingrid is an Agroecologist Engineer and a permaculturist, community artist, agricultural worker and a cook. Ingrid is the mom of two little girls who creates space to teach them about their intercultural heritage and growing around the 3 sisters-Milpa in a land based approach. Ingrid is passionate about horticulture and takes care of collective gardens. This year Ingrid and extended family hold an legacy field house residency at Strathcona Park providing land based education programing and access to traditional foods to urban IBPOC communities also works in solidarity collaboration with Harmony Garden hosted by Squamish elders. Ingrid has a background in facilitating workshops around biocultural, agroecology- permaculture and community art projects within intergenerational groups in a holistic approach. She loves travelling to different territories, harvesting medicinal plants for medicinal baths and ceremonies, visiting elders and friends, where she is learning how to be a good guest in relation to their cultural practices.