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Hummingbird Farm Panels: “Nuestro Saucedo”

Nuestro Saucedo
“Saucedo” is Spanish for “place of the willows.”
The glyph represents the Nahuatl word for willow, ahuexotl.

Where there is willow there is water.

This willow, which was here before this farm began, indicates fresh water underground.

The Ramaytush Ohlone people of the Bay Area used the indigenous willow for shelters and sweat-lodges, snares and fish traps, bark clothing, and for storage and cooking baskets. Willow medicine included chewing twigs or brewing tea to relieve fever, headaches, arthritis, and inflammation. Willow, known as the “toothache tree,” is the source of salicin, the key ingredient of modern aspirin.

We have shaped this willow place to become a shaded oasis. We will relearn the resilience of willow, growing deep roots and building shelter for our future. We dedicate this willow place to Concha Saucedo, our elder who has mentored us and led us in ceremony since the beginning of Hummingbird Farm in 2017.

Art and installation by Fernando Martí. Thank you to the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Hummingbird Farm is a community urban agriculture project stewarded by PODER’s Urban Campesinx program.

Nuestro Saucedo
«Saucedo» significa «lugar de sauces» en español.
El glifo representa la palabra náhuatl para sauce, ahuexotl.

Donde hay sauce, hay agua.

Este sauce, que ya estaba aquí antes de que comenzara esta granja, indica la presencia de agua dulce subterránea.

El pueblo Ohlone de la región de la bahía utilizaba el sauce autóctono para refugios y cabañas de sudación, trampas y nasas, ropa de corteza y cestas de almacenamiento y cocina. La medicina del sauce incluía masticar ramitas o preparar té para aliviar la fiebre, los dolores de cabeza, la artritis y la inflamación. El sauce, conocido como el «árbol del dolor de muelas», es la fuente de la salicina, el ingrediente clave de la aspirina moderna.

Hemos dado forma a este lugar de sauces para que se convierta en un oasis de sombra. Volveremos a aprender la resistencia del sauce, que echa raíces profundas y construye refugios para nuestro futuro. Dedicamos este lugar de sauces a Concha Saucedo, nuestra anciana que nos ha guiado y dirigido en la ceremonia desde el comienzo de la Granja Colibrí en 2017.

Arte e instalación de Fernando Martí. Gracias a la Comisión de Artes de San Francisco.

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