Awarded Grants

This project will create unprecedented connections between tiers of the local food system to integrate purebred Fort Peck buffalo into local grocery stores at an affordable price. The project will leverage available data and personnel expertise to increase the presence of buffalo in the culture of the Fort Peck Reservation.

This project will create access to Indigenous seeds for tribal communities in NM, leverage existing relationship with tribal youth councils, and increase the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables grown. This will increase knowledge-sharing of seed drying and saving to sustain traditional tribal food systems.

This project's mission is to regain our native resiliency by integrating indigenous food sovereignty with today's sustainable agriculture movement. This will create an opportunity to not only self sustain our tribe nutritionally and traditionally but also integrate ourselves with today's growing green business.

This project will help increase the availability of indigenous foods available on Oahu by creating family and community gardens and breadfruit orchards. It will utilize existing partnerships with landowners to increase food grown and provide leverage for future requests of the State for public growing spaces.

The KTRCD through this Regeneration of Fishing project on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Hupa people reside along the Trinity River have relied the salmon migration for subsistence since time immemorial. This project will increase the knowledge of fishing by making nets, setting nets, and processing fish for next generation.

This project will leverage the ability to utilize language learning resources and increase community access to learning the Keres language/ways of knowing. This project will also create an opportunity for Indigenous children to plan and participate in a Food Sovereignty conference where they will learn more about native foods.

This project will help increase community holistic wellness and food sovereignty participation through (re)connecting our local Native youth and families to traditional foodways. This directly cultivates sustainable and healthy local Native communities by revitalizing Native assets of food management, cultural lifeways, and intergenerational knowledge-sharing.

This project will allow the Agriculture Department to create an advertising campaign to increase the number of regional schools and restaurants as customers for products from the Seneca Nation’s farm, Gakwi:yo:h Farms. The farm will leverage its reputation for high-quality fruits, vegetables, and meat to increase its customer base.

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