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Mdewakanton Wozupi, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, MN
The amazing suite of food-related projects in the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) got its start when a tribal health […]
Dream of Wild Health, Hugo MN
Dream of Wild Health is a 10 acre non-profit farm in Hugo MN, about 45 minutes north of the Twin […]
White Earth Land Recovery Project, Minnesota
For the past 25 years, the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELP) has been working to not only recover land […]
Little Earth Urban Farm, Minneapolis MN
Nestled up against the Hiawatha Ave sound wall in a Minneapolis neighborhood famous for it Native American residents, the Little […]
Mashkiikii Gitigan Medicine Garden, Minneapolis MN
The Mashkiiki Gitigan (Ojibway for “medicine garden”) was the brain child of the 24th Street Urban farm Coalition, a group of staff […]
Slim Buttes Agricultural Project, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD
Much of the media around Pine Ridge focuses on the poverty, suicide, alcoholism and poor life expectancy. While Pine Ridge is […]
Cheyenne River Youth Project, Eagle Butte SD
The Great Sioux Reservation was created in 1868 with the signing of Fort Laramie although subsequent treaties in the 1870’s […]
Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto, Slow Foods International. Turin, Italy
The Slow Food movement got its start in the late 1980’s when Carlo Petrini rallied friends and supporters to protest […]
Nisqually Tribe Community Garden, Dupont WA
The Nisqually tribe has been fishing and gathering along the Nisqually River and Puget Sound for at least the past […]
From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement 