Indigenous Food Circle

Looks, Delicious Damien!

Trapping this weekend with Mark Bell from Aroland FN, chi miigwech for sharing your knowledge and taking us to your trapline. Learning on the land together is important work and we are grateful to have been able to come up! Miigwech Damien Bouchard for the amazing photos and stay tuned for a trapping video!

Trapping this weekend with Mark Bell from Aroland FN, miigwech for sharing your knowledge and look forward to sharing the process video by Damien!

Our relations in Northern Manitoba are hosting an amazing End of Season webinar . If you have the time and garden in the north sign up.. Northern Manitoba Food, Culture, and Community Collaborative https://fb.me/e/35tNmK9WK

Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty Live!

Less than a week until our event, please invite and share. Miigwech!

Check out our feature on Anishinabek Nation!

The Indigenous Food Circle in partnership with the Thunder Bay District Health Unit are hosting on online gathering September 16th from 1-4pm. Registration link here: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us//tJAqd-uuqD4jG93Ncw_iOyX9yV4pfZ8 or on the Understanding Our Food Systems website www.understandingourfoodsystems.com ... "Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty in and around Anishawbewi Gitchi-Gami and Animbiioo Zaagiigan" Join and hear from 3 of our partner communities about their community based food sovereignty work and a keynote address by Winona LeDuke. Questions can be sent to the Indigenous Food Circle messenger account.

Today we visited Whitesand First Nation where we spent the day with the powerful team of health staff and community members growing their own food.. This is Whitesands 4th year gardening and each year the commitment, passion and number of gardens grow. Since the beginning of this project Roots to Harvest has supported us and Whitesand and today we got together and talked about their experiences over the last 4 years and what is in the future (hint hint strawberry patch)... today is the kinda of day where we fully understand why we do this work... our hearts amd bellies are full... chi Miigwech Whitesand we can't wait to come back...

Preserving blueberry jam with locally harvested miinan and bone broth. Miigwech Arlene Meekis-Yung for sharing your knowledge Roots to Harvest

Social distancing group photo Our first cluster gathering was full of light and laughter. We got to learn about fish emulsion and shared stories with each other!

Today we hosted our first cluster workshop for the Understanding Our Food Systems project...(a partnership with Thunder Bay District Health Unit)..on Fish Emulsion... at @rootstoharvest Volunteer Pool urban farm. Collectively Elders, Knowledge Keepers, youth and our team learned about the practice and shared stories and teachings on fish and the importance of fish in Anishinaabe culture. Watch for this video to be posted in the near future.#rise #anishinaabe #usewhatwehave #protectourmother #cultivate

Have you gone blueberry picking this season?

We popped into Biitigong Nishnaabeg to tour community gardens, see the moose camp kitchen and work plan with the Food Sovereignty team. Chi Miigwech we cant wait to come back in September and build you a health centre greenhouse.

We're visiting community partners today dropping off preserving tools and supplies in Pawgwasheeng (Pays Plat First Nation)... checked out the amazing kitchen in the community hall that the community has been working towards throughout the duration of the Understanding Our Food Systems project..... Incredible work(s) team Pays Plat.

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Happy Happy Birthday to our @shelbygagnon... this rez dog loving ...kind, brave, strong Kwe lights up our lives every second we work and spend time with her.... cheers to you and another wrap around the sun

So our community partners at Whitesand First Nation are already harvesting green onions... this truly is rise/reclamation of the Indigenous green thumb in action... Whoop Whitesand... we are proud to work with you... can't wait to visit in August

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit our region in March the Indigenous Food Circle, in collaboration with the Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre’s Good Food Box program quickly recognized that our partner First Nations in the region were facing exacerbated rates of vulnerability while trying to access fresh affordable foods. Existing supply chain shortages, backlogs and an already fragmented transportation and distribution system left communities with minimal emergency options.... With sponsorship and coordination from the Good Food Box; the relationships of the Indigenous Food Circle and the muscle of First Nation members and staff we successfully packed and delivered 1188 good food boxes to First Nation families. This work could not have been possible without the funding support of the @Thunder Bay Community Foundation and United Way Thunder Bay through their Covid-19 Community Response Fund, The Sprott Foundation and @communityfoodcentrescanada through their #GoodFoodAccessFund. Chi Miigwech to our First Nation partner communities, your resiliency and strength empowers us to do better building our regional food system and supporting your sovereignty. #biigtigongnishnaabeg #pawgwasheeng #redrockindianband #ginoogaming #longlake58 #animbiigoozaagiigananishinaabek #netmizaaggamignishnaabeg #whitesand #kiashkezaaginganishinaabek See more

Gardening workshop success... Gavin and Janna from @rootstoharvest and Beau from @fortwilliamfirstnation provided some expertise and answered questions about growing in the North. Chi Miigwech to the panelists, participants and all the seeding questions.. Watch out for more Indigenous Food Circle webinars.

Boozhoo! IFC is hosting a Gardening Webinar on Wednesday, June 10 from 2-3:30pm. Panelists Beau Boucher (Fort William First Nation) and Gavin Morito-Karn (Roots to Harvest) will share their gardening knowledge on the following topics: garden placement, seed planting, seedling planting, testing soil/how to amend the soil, gardening tools, and companion planting. Please join us to gain knowledge or share what you are doing in your community this summer, we will have time during... and at the end of the webinar for questions and conversation! Register here: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us//tJIrcuysqzgjH9zx23ydSlaCvhMYXQX An email will be sent to you after registration with a link to join with zoom, and numbers to call in from a phone. We hope you can join us Indigenous Food Circle

Last six emergency good food boxes to AZA ....Shelby and Jess are tired... but thier hearts are full.. chi Miigwech