Awarded Grants

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

Native Giving Distribution

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

Native Giving Distribution

The intent of the Spirit Lake Food Distribution Program (SLFDP) Community Food Systems Project is to create a community-wide, multifaceted approach to leverage and fortify local food systems and to increase market opportunities by creating a community farmers market on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.

This project will leverage resources available through federal and state funds for the purchase of traditional foods. It will create access to these foods and increase the participation of tribal members in the use of traditional foods. As well as helping the Tribe to retain knowledge of traditional foods.

To develop and then expand a community garden greenhouse while enhancing our tribal capacity to increase food efficiencies and food production & distribution through new market channels.

Leverage development of a multi-species processing plant as a linchpin to achieve multiple ARMP goals: Restore commercial and wild bison herds and ideal grazing conditions; reconnect the community to traditional cultural foods; and improve economic opportunities for producers and communities through value-added agriculture and nature-based businesses.

The project will focus on increasing the skills and capacity of Wisconsin Indians and their tribes to create and produce value-added products as a means of economic development. To teach them to utilize equipment in a joint use process that will expand the availability of equipment more broadly.

Project will utilize the only dry-land farm on the Tohono O'odham Nation to create a learning environment for youth and adults to increase the capacity of existing farmers, increase participation of youth in farming and increase awareness of traditional Tohono O'odham and other native farming and food practices by 100%.