Our program strengthens the survival of Ojibwe cultural skills. Our Seasonal Harvest Feasts revitalize Indigenous knowledge by gathering community members to practice traditional harvesting. As food must be gathered, so must the community to learn how these foods were used in meals and celebrations.
Healthy Start empowers Indigenous families in urban Detroit by revitalizing first foods, supporting maternal wellness, and strengthening cultural ties—ensuring that Native parents can nourish, raise, and care for their children in ways that honor ancestral knowledge and uphold food sovereignty.
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.
This program strengthens Native food sovereignty by expanding land-based education, entrepreneurship, and access to capital. Through workshops and intergenerational learning, the project supports Native producers in growing, selling, sustaining culturally rooted agricultural practices.
This project builds organizational capacity to support technical planning, forest restoration, and wildfire preparedness. It will support engagement with the U.S. Forest Service and other federal partnerships.
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.