Awarded Grants

This project will create a Producers' Cooperative on the Wind River Reservation to build food sovereignty on the reservation. The Producers' Cooperative will be locally owned and controlled by Native farmers and ranchers.

Our project will create the next generation of native farmers as they utiliize their tribal lands and community to live sustainably. This leverages our resources (bees, chickens, and gardens) in order to increase sovereignty and empower our youth through innovative solutions.

The project creates a culturally specific adaptation of a beginning farmer curriculum mentored by successful farmers. Native participants will be equipped with skills and knowledge to develop and profit from agricultural enterprises on Native lands, and leverage resources to increase control of local farmland and sustainable food systems.

The project leverages Elder and Native youth knowledge and skills to create cold water leaching stations, an educational video and workshop. The resources will retain community knowledge about cold water leaching of acorns and be utilized by acorn producers to facilitate and increase their production of acorn meal.

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.