Conservation journey has transformative energy. It advantages communities, safeguards wildlife and preserves cultural heritage. Along with our conservation journey partnership with World Wildlife Fund established in 2003, Pure Habitat Adventures additionally helps numerous philanthropic initiatives within the locations we go to. Our dedication to conservation and sustainable improvement evokes our management function in boosting grassroots efforts in locations our friends have come to know and love. We actively pursue revolutionary efforts to guard the setting and promote the welfare of native communities.
Sixty-six miles south of the Arctic Circle, Tasiilaq, with its colourful assortment of picket homes, overlooks King Oscar’s Harbor. Pointed peaks topped with glaciers rise behind East Greenland’s small administrative capital, residence to 2,000 residents. Past this, most of East Greenland stays untouched, inhabited solely by a couple of small communities sustained by subsistence looking.
Conventional rising seasons are nearly non-existent on this land of uncooked Arctic magnificence. Nevertheless, due to the efforts of Siu-Tsi’s Tasiilaq’s Backyard challenge, crops like radishes, turnips, spinach and onions now unexpectedly flourish.
Siu-Tsi: Constructing a Promising Future for Greenland’s Youth
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Siu-Tsiu is a youth social providers group whose objective is to “contribute to elevated employment and sustainability in Greenland—regionally and regionally…by social financial enterprises…rooted within the palms of the local people.” Practically 1 / 4 of Tasiilaq’s inhabitants contains younger people aged between 15 and 29, and the talents acquired in these packages function a bridge to additional schooling and the workforce.
Empowering youth by educating them to develop greens, particularly in such a harsh local weather, not solely provides them a pathway into the labor market but additionally bolsters their general well-being. The initiative extends past agriculture, equipping these people with precious expertise associated to craftsmanship, repairs, meals service and extra.
Creating jobs for younger individuals in Tasiilaq is a part of Siu-Tsiu’s objective of making a sustainable and socially aware economic system in Greenland. And small seeds are the place huge concepts start. Siu-Tsiu’s hope for the Tasiilaq’s Backyard challenge? That “everybody…will benefit from the flowers and greens we’ll develop, which can be each stunning to have a look at and scrumptious to eat.”
Tasiilaq Group Cookbook: Celebrating Greenland’s Native Flavors
In 2025, Nat Hab Philanthropy offered $2,500 to assist the creation of the Tasiilaq Group Cookbook, a culinary and cultural initiative designed to protect and promote native meals traditions. The challenge connects previous and current by the language of meals by gathering recipes that showcase substances present in native outlets and gardens (together with these beforehand supported by Nat Hab Philanthropy).
With assist from Nat Hab, this cookbook will rejoice Greenlandic meals tradition whereas encouraging sustainable consuming habits and lowered reliance on imports. It additionally fosters native pleasure and group engagement, involving cooks, residence cooks, and youth in each the creation and use of the e-book.
Funding will assist analysis, a group tasting occasion, skilled images, printing and distribution—guaranteeing the cookbook turns into an enduring instructional and cultural useful resource for faculties, households and curious guests alike.
Now, let’s return to how the backyard started.
Tasiilaq’s Backyard: Sowing the Seeds of Change
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In April of 2023, Pure Habitat Adventures contributed $3,646 to Siu-Tsiu’s Tasiilaq’s Backyard Chilly Body Undertaking.
The development of two further chilly frames started in Might 2023. The growth aimed to supply extra regionally grown greens to the group of Tasiilaq. Siu-Tsiu additionally solid a partnership with Nat Hab to supply freshly grown produce to our chef at Base Camp Greenland, which aligned with our mission to supply sustainable meals at any time when and wherever doable on our worldwide expeditions.
Youth within the Siu-Tsi program labored aspect by aspect with a carpenter to construct the chilly frames, gaining perception into the commerce and buying a wide range of expertise. This partnership offered a precious connection between the younger Greenlanders and a neighborhood enterprise, permitting them to check out the career as a possible profession path and employment alternative.
There was some problem acquiring soil for the 2 chilly frames because of transportation points. This hiccup delayed the planting course of for the brand new chilly frames whereas the unique ten chilly frames had been primed for planting.
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Youth ready and enriched the soil with natural fertilizer. They sowed a wide range of seeds, deepening their information of various plant species and the best way to develop them. All through the summer season, they diligently maintained the backyard, tackling a spread of duties. Collaborating with native craftsmen, they restored the waterline from a close-by creek for irrigation. They watered, weeded and nurtured the crops till harvest time.
By July, the awaited soil for the 2 new chilly frames arrived. Younger Greenlanders swiftly planted onions, radishes, spinach and turnips. Being among the fastest-growing greens in Tasiilaq’s Backyard, they’re anticipated to be prepared for harvest by late September, contingent on nighttime frosts. Regardless, this has posed no points for Base Camp Greenland, which has been assured a gentle circulation of ripe greens from the whole backyard. Mid-July witnessed the primary harvest, and there was immense pleasure in delivering the preliminary produce to Tasiilaq and Nat Hab vacationers on the wilderness Base Camp.
A celebratory put up shared on Siu-Tsiu’s Fb web page expresses gratitude towards Pure Habitat Adventures for his or her beneficiant contribution in Greenlandic and Danish. Translated into English, it reads:
“We’ve got harvested the primary radishes from Tasiilaq’s Backyard this yr. We’re so completely happy that we will develop a number of greens for Tasiilaq (particularly the radishes, that are fairly well-liked!). The kids look after the greens from the very starting—constructing the chilly frames, sowing the little seeds, weeding and watering till they’re prepared for harvest. Within the footage, you may see Banne Hansen, Karl Kunuk and Jeanette Mathiassen. We’re very grateful for the chance to broaden Tasiilaq’s Backyard this yr. Thanks, Pure Habitat Adventures, to your donation.”
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The put up garnered widespread consideration and even led to the nationwide radio station reaching out for an interview. The dialog, carried out in Greenlandic, revolved round Siu-Tsiu’s achievements in Tasiilaq’s Backyard, the dedication of the youth and their collective pleasure in serving their group.
Journey to East Greenland with Nat Hab
On Nat Hab’s East Greenland Arctic Journey, uncover the wealthy historical past and tradition of Tasiilaq by guided walks, private encounters and a tour of the city museum. Our in a single day stays supply distinctive alternatives to work together with the native Greenlandic Inuit, who will supply firsthand views on every day life and the realities of year-round existence on this distant Arctic realm. This immersion offers a deep appreciation for his or her enduring traditions and provides insights into the up to date challenges and triumphs of life in present-day Greenland. The journey continues as we set off by boat to our unique wilderness Base Camp located on the jap flank of Sermilik Fjord.
Inuit Village of Tasiilaq, Angmagssalik, Greenland © Ralph Lee Hopkins
