We believe that food sovereignty is the ability to feed ourselves and feed ourselves well. It is a state of being in which our community is able to have a safe, culturally acceptable, and nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that promotes community self-reliance and social justice throughout the 1842 Treaty ceded-territory. Our territory is a rich and vast garden where foods and medicines abound throughout our forest and water landscape.
Wild Rice Restoration
Manoomin, the food that grows on water, is a staple of our diets. Alongside language, food and the very nutrients that built our ancestors minds and hearts are critical to retaining our cutural strength.
Teaching Camps
For years the department has been hosting events to help the community learn about harvesting tradtional resources. Through these camps we hope to inspire community members to continue practicing their rights to hunt, fish, trap, and gather.
Debweyendan is the Ojibwa word for “Believe in it.” The activities taking place in the gardens support our caring for the Earth. We take ownership of our health by eating garden-fresh produce. Family and community are celebrated in the garden as we work together to tend to the growing plants. Young and old alike take delight in seeing the first seeds germinate from the soil. Lessons in nurturing and generosity become an integral part of us as we water and weed around the vegetable plants and then share the harvest with community members and elders. Click HERE to learn more!
