Your sweetheart deserves authentic gifts. The Mobile Farmers Market has traveled far and wide to bring you the best hand made gifts through the Reconnecting the Tribal Trade Routes Road Trip. Earrings are priced $20-$30 and come from freshly made maple candies from Minnesota’s north woods. Learn more by clicking on the image or following this link: https://squareup.com/market/mobile-farmers-market/valentines-special
The Mobile Farmers Market is making a special “Reconnecting the Tribal Trade Routes Roadtrip” this winter on an effort to bring more awareness to unique Native products and strengthen connections among the producers across the nation. Also check out the Mobile Farmers Market Facebook page for regular updates.
Making New Connections in the Southwest
Bruce explains how to make delicious maple candy from finished syrup.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Maple Syrup Producers Workshop event last weekend. It was great to see so many people involved in discussions on syrup production and USDA programs. We hope all of your questions were answered, and if not, please contact us!
A special thanks to Danielle Diver, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, USDA agency representatives, and Red Lake Fisheries for your assistance putting the event on. We would like to recognize Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education for providing funding for the event.
A future event is tentatively planned for early April that will focus on syrup production in action including a tour of different evaporator systems. Stay tuned for more information!
There’s still a couple days left to enter the IAC Youth Essay Contest (see pdf flier below). The top three finalists will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s Annual Membership Meeting from December 9-12. The essay deadline is November 1st.
We are also still accepting youth scholarship applications for the Membership Meeting. Please submit the form below ASAP for consideration.
The Food Sovereignty Summit was held at Oneida, WI from April 15-18, 2013. Nearly 300 attendees learned about innovative agricultural and food system projects across Native North America and connected with other individuals and groups doing similar work. The event was a collaboration among the Oneida Nation, First Nations Development Institute, the Intertribal Agriculture Council, and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
The summit began with workshops and tours on Monday, April 15th. Partnership with Northeast Wisconsin Technical College even allowed participants in a series of courses to obtain college credit.
The summit then got started in full on Tuesday morning after a meet-and-greet reception sponsored by the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. Winona LaDuke helped to start off the conference with an impassioned call to implement food sovereignty across Indian Country. Attendees were then able to select between breakout sessions in three different tracks. This biggest challenge was figuring out which track to select given the quality of speakers in each.
The Food Sovereignty Summit also provided an excellent opportunity to highlight the new Mobile Farmers Market in its debut sales event.
Selling and showcasing a variety of products provided practice in working with multiple products from a variety of vendors. We also offered the official conference t-shirts screen-printed with the awesome Food Sovereignty Summit logo.
The interpersonal connections were definitely one of the biggest successes of the entire event. New connections were made and old connections were rekindled. A great example is the progression of students that have moved on to become teachers themselves.
We’re still accepting registrations for the Food Sovereignty Summit at Oneida from April 15-18th. More information on the event, including the agenda and registration pages are available on the summit website.
Also remember that we are offering a series of workshops on business planning and permaculture design. The permaculture workshop will also feature a session Monday morning, April 15th on seed saving and we’ll be organizing a seed exchange on Tuesday evening, so feel free to bring any seeds you’re willing to trade or give away.
The Intertribal Agriculture Council has received a SARE grant to conduct a series of agricultural skills workshops across the Great Lakes Region. This funding will help provide support for Tribal agricultural educators to attend the workshops.
The first workshop will be held in conjunction with the MOSES Organic Farming Conference on February 21-23 in Lacrosse, WI, the second with the Indigenous Farming Conference from March 4-7 at White Earth, and the third during the Food Sovereignty Summit April 15-18th at Oneida, WI.
If you are an American Indian agricultural educator or producer interested in attending any of these events, please contact Dan Cornelius (dan@IndianAgLink.com).
The Native Women & Youth in Ag Essay Contest is accepting essay from youth in 9-12 grades until November 5, 2012. The three finalists will receive a all-expense paid trip to the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s Annual Membership Meeting in Las Vegas, NV from December 10-13, 2012. Here is the 2012 Flyer of the announcement posted below. We are also offering a very limited number of youth scholarships for young adults aged 13-20. Here is the 2012 Y Ch Sch for that scholarship.
Great Lakes Region IAC Website 