Awarded Grants

This project has focused on protecting native Hawaiian producers and providing native foods directly to our native community. The origination of a CSA program is a new venture and native Hawaiian producers are embracing the new form of marketing in order to survive and grow.

Support the Keres Children’s Learning Center’s 2021 fundraising event, Get Your Coffee Ready Virtual Coffee Chat Series, that will showcase Indigenous professionals.

This project will create a food hub to increase access to fresh and local foods by utilizing the market channels opened by the farmers market in light of state policy changes. It also leverages data collected via a food sovereignty assessment to create a strategic plan for the agriculture department.

Yakani Ekelanna seeks to create an opportunity for UHN and its tribal members to utilize existing tribal lands as a source of sustainable traditional foods and medicinal herbs for community use, while increasing tribal/individual food sovereignty and retaining traditional agricultural and herbalism practices.

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.