“Food is Our Medicine” is a phrase commonly used by naturopathic healers and Native people expressing the need for a […]
Archive for ‘Youth Programs’
Whirling Thunder Organic Farm, Ho-Chunk Nation, Wisconsin
Located on what was once a llama ranch, and then a beef ranch, the goal of the Ho-Chunk Education Department’s […]
Bad River Gitiganing Community Garden and Other Food Systems Projects, Wisconsin
According to Bad River tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins, “every Indian walking around in Bad River is an unbelievable food producing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Black Mesa Water Coalition Green Economy Project, Piñon AZ
After driving half an hour down a dusty red road, we came intoPiñon, a town on the Navajo Nation in […]
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture, Kykotsmovi Village, AZ
The 1.5 million acre Hopi reservation is located in Arizona, surrounded on all sides by the Navajo Nation. The Hopi […]
Cochiti Youth Experience (CYE), Cochiti Pueblo NM
The Cochiti Youth Experience (CYE) began as a 4-H program 20 years ago. One day in 2008, CYE co-founder Adae […]
Zuni Youth Enrichment Program
The Zuni Youth Enrichment Program (ZYEP) began in part when Dr. Faber, a pediatrician who came to Zuni from Boston, […]
From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement 