The Cultural Conservancy’s Native Foodways

Traditional lands, waters, and Native places continue to be threatened by over development and dangerous extractive practices. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Cultural Conservancy is working to build and protect Indigenous biocultural revitalization and create safe places for Native land-based learning and sharing. 

Their flagship program, the Native Foodways Program, develops resilient solutions in partnership with Intertribal community, uplifting the revitalization of Native food systems, agriculture and land stewardship, and the traditional lifeways that cultivate food sovereignty.  

Through our regional food justice programs and national Native seed and foods networks, this Native-led organization is building and supporting alternative systems of community resource distribution and mutual aid, intertribal partnerships, and intergenerational traditional knowledge sharing.  

Cultural Revitalization 

The practice of decolonization is deeply embedded in all their programming and work. They decolonize their minds with Indigenous languages, ways of learning; their bodies with healthy Native foods and medicines, land-tending and cultural practices; their hearts with talking circles and dialogue around intergenerational trauma, understanding the impacts of and dismantling colonialism and structural racism in their communities. 

The Native Foodways Program has distributed local, organic produce and Native-grown traditional foods, seeds, recipes, and offered traditional foodways learning opportunities to Native community partners for over a decade, including health centers, schools, and youth groups. 

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https://www.nativeland.org/native-foodways