Awarded Grants

The Quapaw Farmers Market will create a food market that connects producers to market opportunities in order to increase capacity, revenue, and local control of the food system. The project will utilize the market as a platform to increase access to healthy, fresh foods and awareness of local food systems.

The project will help create an intergenerational program that will transfer traditional aquaculture knowledge to tribal youth. It will also increase overall oyster and quahog yields while utilizing more of our 12.6 acres of available ocean space.

Utilizing assessments/data and existing garden/market structure, this project will create a Food Sovereignty Master Plan for the Rosebud Reservation and provide opportunities for beginning farmers/ranchers in a pilot program. Results will be leveraged for buy-in of individuals, businesses, and tribal leadership toward a Native-controlled local food system.

Sponsorship for three youth to attend the Great Lakes Native Youth Food Sovereignty Summit

This project will create a new technical assistance/training program that helps Native producers/producer groups with capacity/skills building to better control/manage/utilize agriculture businesses/resources. It will provide grant assistance to increase Native American’s participation in USDA/other grant programs. This funding will also be used to leverage additional grants from USDA and others.

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%.

This project will increase the scope of Ndee Bikiyaa’s Farmers Workshops series by adding agribusiness education and skill building. Through agribusiness education and training, participants will utilize skills acquired to strengthen their identity as farmers & stewards of the land and water and catalysts of local traditional food economies.

This is a Maskoke-controlled agricultural project designed to create a conservation/restoration mechanism for bison and sturgeon, while decolonizing Maskoke diet by reincorporating consumption of historically bioregional animal proteins and vegetables, all while retaining traditional language immersion practices surrounding agriculture.These agricultural endeavors also leverage the entire ecovillage project through generated revenue.