Awarded Grants

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

Our project will retain and increase the knowledge of traditional foods, foster food sovereignty and self-sufficiency of Navajo families. We utilize apprenticeships, our Sheep is Life event, volunteers and leverage partner resources to create educational events, cookbook, producer directory, database, and improve Navajo-Churro sheep production for our local food system.

The Healthy Food Healthy Families project will recruit twenty-five adults into the small business and agri-business workshops within the project period. The end of the project will result in at least ten (10) new vendors added to the farmer's market. It leverages 100% of the directors salary.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

The ultimate purpose is to increase community control over the local food system. We will do this by creating a youth leadership program that utilizes food as a way to retain and transmit traditional Lakota ceremonies and teachings, and further increase the leadership potential of local Lakota youth. Further, this project will utilize and leverage the work of the Community Food Sovereignty Initiative, as well as the volunteer led Boys with Braids group, to mutually enhance the programming capacity and quality of both groups, as well as increase the numbers of community members involved in food sovereignty work.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

This project creates access of fresh foods for Native Hawaiians, retain resources for native producers and create a community mala 'ai (a food garden). The project will increase knowledge of our foods, and ultimately provide us with the leverage of food security through control of our local food supply system.

The project will not only help retain traditional knowledge of building, farming, seed saving, cooking, and language of the people, it also leverages the women's and men's traditional roles in the community that are vital to keeping the culture alive by creating the spaces and materials for future ceremonial needs.

This project will increase local control over data on the local food system. This project will increase data driven knowledge and create community plans based on data collected from a community food sovereignty assessment.

The project will help retain Kanien'keha language and traditional cultural practices by restoring healthy relationships between the natural world and students, their parents, teachers, elders and summer youth workers who engage in traditional cultural practices of gardening, tapping maple trees, and harvesting fruits and berries.