Makoce Agriculture Development

This project increases food security on Pine Ridge by expanding processing and packaging infrastructure, strengthening tribal producer capacity, and improving access to locally sourced and traditional foods through the Makoce Food Hub.

This project supports a local food system among the Oglala Lakota by developing skills, knowledge, and infrastructure necessary for a local, connective food system. It empowers members to take leading roles in decolonizing the food system by leveraging education, resource sharing, cultural connections, and economic opportunities rooted in Indigenous ecology.

Create opportunities for our community members to connect with traditional foods that can be found all around us. We will shift the thinking in our community from food desert to food oasis.

This project will create a space for community members to utilize for harvesting, processing, and storage of cultural and traditional foods which will create an pathway towards retaining cultural, traditional and modern food practices towards developing a local food system.

This project will create a space for community members to utilize for harvesting, processing, and storage of cultural and traditional foods which will create an pathway towards retaining cultural, traditional and modern food practices towards developing a local food system.

COVID-19 Response

The Unit will help create access and opportunity for community poultry producers through the integration of a shared value added mobile poultry processing. It will increase access to poultry production for local consumption and leverage more opportunities for a local food supply chain towards developing a locally controlled food system.