The Mashkiiki Gitigan (Ojibway for “medicine garden”) was the brain child of the 24th Street Urban farm Coalition, a group of staff […]
Tag Archive for ‘American Indian farming’
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 […]
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 […]
Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project, Auburn WA
The Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest was one of the most densely populated areas of North America, due […]
Cultural Conservancy, San Francisco and Novato CA
The Cultural Conservancy (TCC) originated in 1985 as The Sacred Land Foundation (SLF), an organization created to collect and disseminate […]
Big Pine Paiute Tribe Sustainable Food System Development Project, Big Pine CA
After leaving Arizona in mid-July, we headed northwest, into the dry mountains of western California, to visit the Big Pine […]
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 […]
Ndee Bikiyaa, “The People’s Farm,” White Mountain Apache Tribe, AZ
The one and a half million acre Fort Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona experiences all four seasons and a variety […]
San Xavier Co-op Farm, Tucson AZ
There four distinct communities that make up the expansive Tohono O’odham Nation; the “main reservation” that houses the capital in Sells, […]
From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement 