Our FJS Program will be focused on Food Justice and Sovereignty in Urban Garden & Farm settings locally. As all of our programs and projects are initiated by the needs and request of community members, we are working with local collaborators, educators, Indigenous leaders, and land stewards to bring land access and participatory education opportunities for underserved families, individuals, and BIPOC+ to co-create actionable equity and trust building.

As in our previous year’s project at the Indigenous Foods Garden, we are committed to grow healthy food and distribute it for free to elders and community members alike. We are hosting garden stipends to compensate participants who would like to learn how to grow food, to have the resources to attend and cover transportation. This program is a radical vision to make learning how to grow healthy food accessible to those who could not otherwise afford the time to do so.

Reparations we focus on are restoring traditional ecological knowledge to low income & BIPOC+ community members, empowerment, emotional wellness through connection, land access for displaced peoples, and a mission to build trust with our youth in a healthy environment while building knowledge and confidence through experience. We love that this program is Indigenous- led because representation matters, and seeing POC in leadership while consulting First Nations People about land use and relations repairs the systems of colonization and oppression by directly reversing it.