Following up on last year’s successful Great Lakes Region Producer Summit, a collaboration among the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, First Nations Development Institute, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, and the Intertribal Agriculture Council is organizing a Food Sovereignty Summit from April 15-18, 2013 at the Oneida’s Radisson Hotel and Conference Center. The agenda will be forthcoming in the near future, but we do already have a save-the-date that is posted below.
Come learn about how the Bay Mills Community College (BMCC)’s Waishkey Farm has used a variety of USDA programs to start their sustainable farm that grows and produces vegetable, fruit, grazing livestock, and poultry.
The travel scholarship deadline has been extended to Monday, August 20th, and scholarship requests or other questions should be sent to Dan Cornelius (dan@indianaglink.com).
We are happy to announce limited travel scholarships are now available for the Great Lakes Region Food Producer Summit at Oneida on April 23-24. Priority will be given to food producers with the greatest need. The scholarship form is attached. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please get yours submitted as soon as possible.
Please submit the form or send any questions to Dan Cornelius (dan@IndianAgLink.com) or call at (608)334-5057.
There will be a Great Lakes Region Food Producer Summit at Oneida on April 23-24 at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center outside Green Bay. The summit flier and registrations form is attached, and more detailed information the agenda is available at the Summit webpage.
The La Courte Oreilles Tribal College will be hosting a Tribal Technical Service Provider (TSP) Training on March 21-22. The training is intended to help participants become certified at Technical Service Providers, which a requirement for obtaining contracts under USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).
The Tribal TSP Training is a pilot project conducted by College of Menominee Nation and Wisconsin NRCS. The agenda is attached below. Contact Brian Kowalkowski (BKowalkowski@menominee.edu) for more information or to register.
The Youth Luncheon is always one of the major highlights of the IAC-INCA Annual Symposium. This year’s essay winners met the exceptional standard set by previous winners in reading their visions for tribal ag over the next twenty-five years. Generous support from Wrangler, USDA, Walmart, and others allowed this contest to happen and reward the essay winners for their impassioned work.
Youth Luncheon
Rodeo Star Derrick Begay
Essay Winner #1
Essay Winner #2
Essay Winner #3
View from the Balcony
Essay Winners
Essay Winners and Rodeo Stars
Here’s is the final agenda for the IAC/INCA 25th Annual Symposium from December 5-9, 2012 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
The annual IAC symposium will take place this December 5-9 in Las Vegas at the flamingo Hotel. Made of producers from around the country will gather to share success stories, particularly relating to the of USDA programs.
Check PDF link below for more information and symposium registration.
In the meantime, check out the main IAC website for more information:
Join the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center and the Intertribal Agriculture and partners, including the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA), for a Roundtable on Tribal Cooperative Development and Value Added Products in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday morning, June 5th. Register online for the Tuesday morning Roundtable and Indigenous Seeds Project by clicking here. In addition to this half-day session, there are several related events occurring in Madison from June 4-6, including the
Registration for the Ethnobotany Conference is required to attend the Food Sovereignty on Turtle Island Symposium on Monday, June 4th. We do have a limited number of registrations for that conference, as well as lodging support. Please contact daniel.cornelius@wisc.edu to RSVP or for more information.
Great Lakes Region IAC Website 