Awarded Grants

This project will utilize a hydroponic growing container to support food box program(s), increasing access to healthy foods by Tribal members. After having a proper site location and utilities, the container will help to increase the availability of vegetables through hydroponics in a region with a short growing season.

This program has been created to ensure the protection, conservation, and access of traditional cultural resources of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT). By utilizing traditional ecological knowledge and providing regular distributions, we are revamping the traditional food systems, tribal values, and cultures of the Flathead Reservation.

This project will increase the Tribe's ability to process and distribute meat within the community while creating opportunities for Tribal Members to receive training and education in a skilled trade.

By utilizing our contacts with Indigenous farmers and meat producers and leveraging this project with our Regenerative Agriculture Youth Certificate program, we will increase the availability of healthy and traditional foods in Colorado, allowing us to provide for our Indigenous families and elders while teaching youth about traditional food ways.

This project will increase access to culturally-relevant, locally-grown meat and produce on Sicangu Makoce. We will achieve this by leveraging the Wolakota Bison Range and our Tribally Supported Agriculture program to provide bison meat and fresh produce to 500 food-insecure families in Rosebud.

This project will create infrastructure for Ohe.laku Co-op's families to transform our cache of raw corn into corn mush flour, a value-added product, increasing access to a traditional food and barter opportunities in the region.

This project will increase access to foods that fit a traditional Blackfeet diet. The project leverages FAST Blackfeet’s ability to educate community members on healthy and traditional eating through the Ō´yō´•ṗ´ (We Are Eating) Food Pantry and other programs. This contributes to long-term food insecurity prevention in the Blackfeet Nation.

Our project will utilize land to create a community garden to increase access to fresh vegetables to Indigenous families at no cost. The fresh produce harvested from the garden will leverage inventory for a community food pantry. Other produce can also be distributed or sold at the Sicangu Harvest Market.

The purpose of this project is to deliver 22 boxes of farm products and plant starts to Native Hawaiian families monthly. It will retain, utilize and leverage Project MAHIʻAI, which highlights Native farmers to purchase and collaborate with local farmers to create access & provide nutritient-dense food to Native Hawaiians.

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