Native Farming Solutions

01/21/2025

Topic: Traditional Foods & Language Class
Time: Jan 20, 2025 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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01/18/2025

We weren’t able to go online during our last class but we can do the presentation online this Monday for those who missed it. Check the stories to add your email to the reminder list and select which timeframe works best for you…morning, afternoon, or evening.

01/16/2025

Yesterday was a busy day. We started by teach a seeds starting class for 100 4th graders at an elementary on the southside, then we joined the Urban Ag Network and led a workshop activity for our local foods system leaders, and ended the day with a traditional foods demo/presentation for our urban native youth. I’d say it was a very productive day. NFS is supporting the development of a “community market” concept at the Culture Hub. The 1st market will on next Ndn Holyday/ cross quarter day on Feb 1st. The intention is to create a cultural market that doesn’t exist and to inspire more of our native community to participate. Thank you for all the community support we’ve received the past few years. We Hope to meet more community leaders who are into collaboration and strategic planning this year! Hiy-hiy kipeechii-hey ✌🏽😁

12/29/2024

On Jan 15th we will be hosting a Cultural preservation presentation for the OKCYC at The Culture Hub in the Capitol Hill neighborhood

There will be a donation based traditional foods dinner followed by a presentation/discussion on traditional foods and food systems of the Americas

This will be followed by a language based presentation on traditional foods titled: “Feeding the world, The 3 sisters and their wild aunties”

We will also be hosting a card game to win a set of earrings and a necklace
We will livestream the presentation for those who can’t make it in person

More info to come….✌🏽😎

12/12/2024

🎄Join us for a Winter Solstice Celebration at our Indigenous Art Market! ❄️

📅 Saturday, December 21, 2024
🕚 11 AM – 5 PM
📍 228 SW 25th St., OKC, OK 73109

In collaboration with Calle Dos Cinco’s Holiday on the Hill, we’re bringing you an Indigenous Winter Pop-Up Market as part of Capitol Hill’s festive day!

Celebrate the magic of the Winter Solstice as we honor the shortest day of the year while we get cozy beneath the holiday lights. Browse handmade crafts while dining on delicious Indian tacos and experience the warmth of community and culture this holiday season. 🌟
Don't miss out. Mark your calendars now!
Vendors! Booth spaces are available. Reserve yours today! ➡️https://www.culturehubok.org/holiday-market-reservations

11/26/2024

Come on out! We will be here 💞

🎄 Join us this week at the Second Annual Black Friday Indigenous Holiday Market! 🛍️🎉
Skip the big box stores this holiday season and support local Indigenous artists and artisans. Find unique, handmade gifts for your loved ones—plus, treat yourself to some delicious Indian tacos!
📅 Friday, Nov. 29, 2024
🕐 11 AM - 5 PM
📍 228 SW 25th St., OKC, OK 73109
Bring the relatives along for a day of shopping, dining, and celebrating community. Let’s come together and support our local creators while enjoying a festive, welcoming atmosphere.
We have a few vendor spots available!
➡️ https://www.culturehubok.org/holiday-market-reservations
See you there!

11/10/2024

We realized that we can’t turn everyone into urban farmers by next week, but, what we can do is help people make better choices about the food they eat next week….our city needs an Indian resource center, traditional foods/herbs market, and a venue for local artists to vend. First, our community needs information and education on how to organize to build our community market. We need to support our entrepreneurs to help them develop small business operations that are resilient and diverse in nature. We hope to stimulate collaborative projects within the existing Indian arts and foods community with support from the health sciences community. Oklahoma is last in the country for so many things. Non natives will scoff at that idea and I always remind that Our Indian kids are at the very bottom of each one of those lists. This is the worst state to be a woman and it’s probably one of the most to be an indigenous woman. Let’s talk about planting seeds for a prairie-grassroots organization in OKc. It will take 5 years to establish its roots but once it does, this org will stand up to fire, drought, ice, and disease.

11/09/2024

If you’re just joining this page, the storytelling happens in the stories. Full moon storytelling and solctice/equinox/cross quarter story telling sessions happen regularly in the stories. We have surveys in circulation to help us create content for events we plan to host this fall and winter. The current survey is a traditional foods access and literacy survey. If Corn, beans, and squash are considered a traditional food for your family please fill out the survey. This time the email responses will be entered into a drawing for a pair pf beaded earrings. Hiy Hiy thank you gracias…🖖🏾😎

11/03/2024

Check out our stories for links to surveys we’re conducting to help create content for online sessions this fall and winter. There are 2 surveys. 1 is for about cultural preservation and the other is for growing food. ✌🏽😎

11/02/2024

Apache, Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kickapoo, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, Sac n Fox, Shawnee, Quapaw, Yuchi.

If your are a member/descendant of these tribes and grew up in urban areas and were disconnected from your tribes cultural practices we would like to chat with you about cultural preservation projects we are working on that are unique to Oklahoma.

Please message if you are interested in participating

10/31/2024

10/29/2024

Join us for an inspiring design workshop! Connect with our Peer Learning Cluster (PLC) co-leads for an interactive group visioning session, as we shape the future of the PLC program in 2025. Your ideas are vital! Tuesday, November 12th at 11:30 am ET on Zoom. Register today - https://cutt.ly/NovPLC2024

10/28/2024

This evening we are presenting on food security and community gardening. Please join us in helping spread the word about the local food access and food literacy movement that is building in our area. We are at the bottom of the list for food access, food literacy, community gardens, and community building. Let’s come together and talk about how to change this. The community needs to be there and so do members from higher ed, the medical community, and city planners need to be apart of these convos….please like n share with folks who you feel should be in attendance…,🖖🏾😎

10/21/2024

This week Travis will be speaking on a panel moderated by Amy Warne in Tulsa and then Travis, Kiara, Brandon, and Tori will be presenting in OKC for the Sierra Club. Both events are free and open to the public. Hope to see you around!

10/19/2024

during the pandemic I thought the world was going to end and I invested alot more time in the garden and found a really great way to grow plants using my knowledge of herbalism to craft medicine for people and fertilizer for plants
I was tired of talking to construction workers about the stars and how to make plants grow and being treated like I was an alien for doing so. When I met the sustainability crew at SPK I immediately found that I could talk about plants and healthy foods and was heard.
After the world didn’t end, I came out of our bunker n started looking for work in the horticultural space and this led me to ScissortailPark
It didn’t take long before we found our circle of friends and decided to started our own club.
We called ourselves “The Green Team”
We started meeting every few weeks to strategize our organizing efforts and our approach.
Park life isn’t for everyone, after awhile we all drifted away from the park program and found positions elsewhere in the local food justice and environmental justice community.

10/17/2024

In 2019, the native community was able to open the first school for native youth in an area just north of OKC. It was called: “the sovereign community school” SCS opened just before the pandemic happened. The program started off on wobbly legs and the pandemic made everything even more challenging and the school did not continue after graduating its first class of seniors. What this did tho, was bring like-minded members of the community together and the struggles to keep going are what separated he committed and the brave from the rest of the crowd. During this time, community members found a strong bond in serving our youth and working together to protect them from bullying and being outcasted for being proud to be an Oklahoma Indian. The school closed down but the remaining staff moved on and started different organizations and programs that continue to serve our native youth and we all still work together to encourage our youth today. I was looking to get away from welding and went to work as a horticulturalist at Scissortail park in OKC which had gone through a similar situation having opened just before the pandemic. This is where I met The OKC Green Team. More time come…