Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians

This project will help to create food sovereignty through developing relationships with local farmers and ranchers. Leveraging the quality of fresh food available locally and to increasing the nutritional diversity to native families in the 6 counties we serve through the USDA LFPA grant program.

This project will enable Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians to create 10 raised garden beds, setup their greenhouse, create an intergenerational Elder and youth Indigenous food sovereignty program and increase their capacity to share the produce grown by their Elders and youth with their community weekly at "Lunch with Elders".

The specific purpose of this grant is to support technical assistance and training which will support the Tribe’s cultural program as they continue to survey their cultural sites and develop policies and procedures for cultural site protection.

This project will enable our community to engage the Elders and youth in maintaining the indigenous control over land, water, and traditional ecological knowledge within our communities. this will create a positive and inspirational result for our next generation of land management leaders to become the best stewards of land.

The project will create a learning environment for language immersion for our youth using our most valuable resource, our elders. The project will also help us retain an audio/visual archive of lessons taught through the program to be used for future lessons.