This Buffalo Harvest project began in 2024 with a collaboration among Meadow Lake Tribal Council, Flying Dust First Nation, Clearwater River Dene Nation, Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation and then expanded to include Buffalo River Dene Nation in 2025. The project films an actual buffalo harvest and includes skinning, gutting and cutting the buffalo meat as...Read More

Exciting news! Nunavut is the first territory to announce an agreement with the federal government under the National School Food Program. Under this agreement, Nunavut will be receiving approximately $7.6 million dollars to enhance their school food programming, which will benefit the more than 11,000 students across the territory. This investment will mean necessary upgrades...Read More

Birch Narrows Dene Community School, Turnor Lake, SK Plant a Seed and See What Grows Foundation Grant, 2024 Our school, a proud First Nations community located in northwestern Saskatchewan, serves 240 students ranging from Head-start/Nursery to Grade 12. This year, we embarked on an exciting project that brought our students and staff together: building and...Read More

Farm to Cafeteria Canada is offering grants in the range of $500 – $20,000 to Indigenous school communities in partnership with Whole Kids, the Public Health Agency of Canada and regional partners. We are very grateful to our Circle of Advisors for their support in developing this grant opportunity. These Indigenous Foodways in Schools Grants will provide funding for...Read More

Sakatcheway Anishinabe Elementary School, Grassy Narrows, ON Grant term, 2023-2024 I started at the school in October 2022 as the Mental Health Counselor. I have a lengthy background in childcare. I went out on the school property and, along with some unused and broken chicken coops, a 48’ by 24’ greenhouse was tucked away and...Read More

Kâpapâmachakwêw – Wandering spirit school, Toronto, ON Grant term 2022-2024 Kâpapâmachakwêw – Wandering Spirit School is an Indigenous cultural survival school in the heart of Toronto’s east end. KWSS serves just over 120 students that range from k-12. Their land-based learning program was started in September 2022 and centres itself on Indigenous food sovereignty, traditional...Read More

This guide was produced by the Feed BC Program to support public institutions to incorporate Indigenous foods in a good way. It contains valuable learnings that can be applied in K-12 schools in BC and across the country.   We are raising our hands for this guide in relationship building, reciprocity, and humility in acknowledging where...Read More