Food Security 2026 Thunder Bay IYCFF First Nation

Sowing Seeds: Indigenous Planting, Harvesting and Cultivating

This project seeks to provide 5 workshops around growing, harvesting, seed saving and cooking food with facilitators and knowledge keepers in the community.

Organization Name: Food Action Network
Amount Rewarded: $30,000
This project seeks to provide 5 workshops around growing, harvesting, seed saving and cooking food with facilitators and knowledge keepers in the community. We will also be hosting a 2 day gathering at whitefish lake with 20 participants to learn traditional practices of harvesting manoomin and provide flat water canoe training for 8 participants. We will cooking together with our harvest of manoomin and local produce, closing this project with a community feast.