Awarded Grants

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.

Native Giving match

The purpose of this project is to increase the participation of youth in healthy foods, and to expose them to financial literacy as entrepreneurs. Increasing participation will be evident through the outreach component to include Lac Courte Oreilles youth and the youth that will be touched in each semester at school. With diabetes being so prevalent on Indian reservations, this program will allow the youth to share their knowledge of healthy foods, and to have a product that is their own -- the Very Berry Healthy Snack mix. There is nothing more lasting than investing in our youth.

Teach Food is Sacred, Food is Medicine philosophy to the youth/community participants. Increase access to healthy, locally-produced foods. Create a network of local food producers that will be made available and utilized by community members. Create events and curriculum to make traditional food knowledge and practices more commonplace with Salish people. Increase overall health of project participants through food, exercise. and nutrition related information. Leverage resources from other local food sovereignty and youth projects. Create/leverage HJV activities for sustainability and replication in other reservation communities/schools. Create a network with similar FNDI grantees with HJV leadership team to share best practices.

The ultimate purpose of the Strengthening Menominee Health and Native Food System project is to utilize existing resources to maximize the community's availability, accessibility, and cultural understanding of local food. The College of Menominee Nation will 1) increase production of local food at the Collaborative Garden through volunteer engagement, 2) create financial incentives for low-income individuals to access food at the Kehtekaewak Farmers Market, 3) increase youth and Elders' cultural understanding and consumption of traditional squash, and 4) develop a 5-Year Agriculture Outreach Business Plan to place CMN's local food initiatives on a path towards self-sufficiency.

The ultimate purpose of our project is to 1) increase food security of the community, and to 2) develop a community system to provide access to fresh, healthy foods. This project will support the families, youth and elder gardening projects within the community by expanding on existing gardens, and creating new family gardens. As a follow-up, interested gardeners will receive encouragement and guidance to expand to market gardening, providing extra family income and filling a need for local produce.

The purpose of the CRITFC salmon marketing program is to create a resource for the tribes, tribal fishers and their families to utilize to help them control tribal natural resources. Fishers utilize food safety and quality handling techniques to help increase the quality and availability of products to tribal communities and also facilitate access to mainstream markets as consumers become more aware of the products being processed in conformance to applicable federal regulations. Education of new FSMA regulations can support strategies to promote a sustainable program that can be replicated overtime and passed on to future generations.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to create a community learning kitchen that will serve as a part of the local food system where the nutritious food grown in the adjacent 1 acre community garden can be cleaned, packaged, and prepared for delivery to those who need it most. This renovation and remodel will extend the useful life and better use this building to its full capacity. This Commercial grade community kitchen will allow the tribe to have more control of the local food system, increase productivity and leverage other assets in the process.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) strengthen local, tribal food systems and increase tribal control by increasing access to traditional Anishinaabe food knowledge and tribal wild rice harvesters for all 11 GLIFWC member tribes through community education/outreach during community events and tribal youth programs. 2) Create relationships between tribal youth/community Programs and Harvesters increasing access to and knowledge of wild rice, and the interrelationships of wild rice and Anishinaabe culture. 3) Support developing entrepreneurially-related food ventures and contribute to economic growth by creating tools and strengthening networking skills to leverage opportunities for Harvesters created through participation within the community.