Beulah Blackrock – Grant Title
2022 Beulah Blackrock – Grant Title
Community Partners
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
Funding Area
Description
In 50 words or less, please provide a brief description of your agribusiness. Example: Farm to School, meat supply chain, etc. My goal is for both the farming and agriculture supply to be organic. We have a hay field and a small home garden. We have sheep and cattle, so with the cost of food, I think it would be a good business to sell produce and meat locally. Are you currently farming or ranching? both My vision for the whole agriculture and produce piece of this apprenticeship is to encourage the younger generation to get involved. I want them to step up and focus on both agriculture and produce. The cost of organic food and keeping the heritage and culture going is very important to me. This is not something that we learned in the last few years, this has been going on for decades. I want the youth to learn how to work the land and use our culture to keep this going. I want to learn from the apprenticeship so I can teach them how to carry this knowledge and reinforce it. It is very important to me to keep our heritage and traditions going, this is something we can hand down, and in doing so we learn something new. I look forward to collaborating with other farmers and ranchers during this apprenticeship. It is also important to have local businesses, I would like my produce to be sold locally.