Forest County Potawatomi Community Maple Sugar Operation
2020 Forest County Potawatomi Community Maple Sugar Operation
Community Partners
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona
The project will utilize the community farmers and ranchers to create economic opportunities and increase fresh local food access for the White Mountain Apache reservation community while leveraging resources at Ndee Bikiyaa Market.
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin
The project will increase the economic opportunity and self-sufficiency of the Forest County Potawatomi Community and its members by strengthening the local food system through the creation of a Maple Sugaring Operation. It will also serve as an educational tool for area youth and provide best practices to regional Tribes.
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
The proposed project for the NAFSI grant includes will utilize ag-related business training, financial education, customized technical assistance, and credit builder and ag loans to Native farmers and ranchers on the reservations in Montana to increase individual assets and production of Ag clients.
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin
The Quapaw Tribe of Indians
The ultimate purpose of the Quapaw Internship Program is to retain local talent for the Quapaw Tribe’s workforce by creating opportunities for interns to increase their knowledge of and gain hands-on experience in their agriculture program of interest.
Other
The WRDF Agriculture Initiative will help retain and increase the Native farming and ranching industries through a series of technical assistance workshops designed to increase capacity building and capital access for Native farmers and ranchers on and around the Wind River Reservation.