The Kupeke Fishpond project boosts food security by restoring Hawaiian aquaculture. It will remove invasives, raise native fish, and revive a coconut grove. Community and youth involvement throughout will reconnect people with ancestral food systems, promoting sustainability and resilience.
create space that centers the reclaiming, utilizing, controlling and transferring of culturally, spiritually relevant applicable skills knowledge and experiences to coming generations for reclaiming and maintaining, as well as leveraging, Womb Sovereignty and self determination and body autonomy.
This project will increase access to fresh, culturally relevant foods by bringing intertribal pop-up pantries directly to Indigenous communities, leveraging cultural knowledge and community networks to address food insecurity, support health, and strengthen local food systems.
Kwiyagat Native Foods Program will expose 165 students at Kwiyagat Community Academy and Battle Rock Charter School to Native Foods by including samples in school lunches, hosting community events, Native Farm speakers and field trips, creating Native Food recipe book and enhancing school gardens.