The amazing suite of food-related projects in the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) got its start when a tribal health […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA), Sells AZ
Tohono O’odham people have relied on the Sonoran desert (in what is now southern Arizona and northern Mexico),as a food […]
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 […]
Tesuque Pueblo Farm, NM
Tesuque Pueblo is one of the 8 Northern Pueblos, nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains about […]
From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement 