Awarded Grants

The overarching purpose of the Medicine Root Community Garden Project is to (1) increase the availability of fresh, healthy, locally produced foods grown by and for the people of Pine Ridge Reservation and (2) create community-based entrepreneurial opportunities.

Create environment supportive of culturally based nutrition consciousness Create a student staff faculty population connected with gardens and educated in history and culture a and practice of gardening Utilize interdepartmental resources and expertise, AG, NAS, Cafeteria, Environmental Science Increase cultural nutrition knowledge among students, staff, faculty Increase the production of produce directly used in nhsc cafeteria Increase use of composting at NHSC Leverage local cultural experts to present to students faculty and staff

The ultimate purpose is to create a sustainable Tribal Community Garden on the Squaxin Island Reservation to grow traditional and non-traditional fruits, berries, nuts, vegetables, herbs and traditional medicinal plants for community consumption. The small-scale production of food will be distributed to Tribal members to increase community access to traditional, fresh, and healthy foods, reducing food insecurity. Education, outreach and participatory community involvement in the garden's development and implementation will improve community health and nutrition and build community. This project will also leverage and utilize Tribal community worker retraining programs, Tribal support, and Reservation land to build food sovereignty capacity.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) strengthen the connection between CFP's organic farming operation and tribal members, and 2) leverage CFP's farming assets to provide more fresh produce to the tribal community. CFP has developed significant production capacity that has seen increasing demand from Off-Reservation customers that are willing and able to pay premium prices. However, CFP wants to ensure that we supply as much of the fresh produce to the tribal community as possible. The LFA's primary purpose is to strengthen the connection between CFP and the tribal community, particularly the tribal students and low-income tribal families.

As people rely more heavily on store-bought processed foods and traditionally-harvested natural foods become a smaller part of Tribal Members' daily diets, nutrition-related illnesses increase and cultural traditions are in danger of being lost. The ultimate purpose of the Wiyot Tribe Healthy and Traditional Food Systems Initiative is to create greater control over nutrition and food security for the Table Bluff Community by leveraging the abundant natural resources on land and water and utilizing traditional and modern harvest techniques to retain stronger cultural ties between the people and their natural environme

The ultimate purpose of Healthy Futures is to address the needs of village stakeholders by increasing knowledge of healthy food options, cooking, and acquiring affordable healthy foods, all within the context of traditional Iñupiaq values and practices. These skills allow youth and young adults to share healthy and culturally relevant meals with their families, improving access to healthy foods and imbuing a sense of control over their food system. Further, the Healthy Futures project will increase Cooperative Extension's scope on the North Slope, expanding our programming from Barrow to the seven underserved remote outlying villages of the North Slope.

The vision of our Tribe is that our community is growing, living and thriving as we have for thousands of years. The mission of our Tribe is to still be here. This project helps us to be increasingly sustainable in our culture, food system and economy, which directly supports our mission and vision. We want to create a future opportunity for food, retain our current status of food security, utilize our assets already in place to farm, control our food security, increase our food supply and leverage our resources from all funding sources.

The ultimate purpose of our project is to create a properly equipped area to wash, dry, weigh and package our produce that we are growing in our greenhouse/aquaponics facility. In order to best control produce quality the processing area and equipment will be easy to wash and sanitize. This will allow us to retain a strict bio-security process within our facility and increase the efficiency of the operation and the quality of the produce for the consumer.

This project utilizes indigenous foods knowledge to empower youth and increase access to healthy traditional foods. Through guided peer learning, youth create modern connections to native nutrition and healthy living while increasing access to and retaining control of Meskwaki heritage seeds and healthy traditional foods. Additionally, it creates new partnerships within Meskwaki tribal operations that retain and expand Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative programs previously funded through AmeriCorps VISTA.

This project's intended purpose is to gain control of the food system at Taos Pueblo by focusing on the improvement of the health of the community through education and youth/child immersion in traditional/sustainable agriculture, thereby increasing the consumption of Taos Pueblo-produced healthful foods that are dependably available, affordable, and preferred; and to improve food security, strengthen cultural heritage, and stimulate food-related economic development and entrepreneurism as means to increase community involvement in re-learning and maintaining the traditional agricultural past of self-reliance, and utilizing that past to make a viable economic future through sustainable agriculture.