First Foods Program

This is a class with Instructor Phoenix Denzhone Ndee Anaya (Apache) about urban/apartment gardening. She hosts classes on naturopathic subjects, ranging from medical herbalism & gardening, plant identification, and more. Phoenix is a veteran of the US Marine Corps.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Emily Vass (Lenape/Choctaw) is a Deathworker who helps families with grief and death support. She is an author, speaker and community leader. She is a mother of 2 neurodiverse teenagers. A wife to a career active duty service member. She has spent much of her 18 years of marriage as an acting single parent as her husband has been forward deployable their entire marriage. Emily’s work focuses on respite care, education and advocacy for the dying and their future grievers. Emily hosts events, workshops and retreats all over the country for grievers, deathworkers and funeral professionals, To find out more about her work consider checking out her website.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Deb Echo-Hawk is the Keeper of the Seeds for the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma Seed Preservation Program. They belief that the seeds that have sustained their Pawnee for hundreds of years should be a part of their daily diet. Deb works with her brothers Walter, Lance, and Roger, as well as the Nasharo Council of Chiefs, Cultural Committee and PSPP Team. The Project is unique as they have 18 volunteer gardeners from their tribal homeland in Nebraska and Kansas growing out their seeds in addition to local Oklahoma gardeners. The on-going story of their challenge to bring back their non-hybrid corn for the welfare of their people is promising.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Sara Calvosa Olson is a Karuk home cook working with Indigenous Californian foods and is the author of a forthcoming cookbook on that same topic. With an interest in using both culturally sound & faithfully updated techniques using traditional Indigenous plants and animals, her cooking inspires a new look at the oldest foods in California. If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Shannon is from Kykotsmovi, Arizona. Shannon is a certified Permaculture Design Instructor, focusing more on Indigenous Permaculture, the weaving of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with innovative science. The mother of six children, Shannon comes from twelve generations of earth caretakers and seed keepers. She is an active educator and has presented and taught widely on permaculture design and practicing Indigenous Permaculture at the Denver Indian Family resource, Rocky Ridge Boarding School on the Navajo Nation.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Sewa Yuli (they/them) is a queer, full spectrum birthkeeper, bodyworker, community cook and parent. Rooted in Mexican curanderismo, Traditional Mexican postpartum care, and Food Justice advocacy, Sewa is the founder of Mi Xantico (pronounced chan-tico). In addition to the aforementioned services, they provide 1:1 meal prep services, postpartum nutritional support, catering, cooking classes and more. Centered around Ancestral Foods, Sewa utilizes culinary medicine to promote healing, connection to tradition and health autonomy in all their practices.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

his was a WONDERFUL First Foods Program panel featuring Unci Christinia Eala, ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk, storyteller Isaac Murdoch, and culture-bearer Emma E. Elliott! This panel was extraordinary.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Come join our teachers Brit Reed (Choctaw) & Meagan Baldy (Yurok/Hopa) from this past month!If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Emma E. Elliott’s doing a cooking demo on Miwok teas with cedar, mugwort, and elderberry. Here is her bio: Hëyeko Müchuksu:u, Kang oyahenti Emma. My lineage comes from the Kiowa, Oleta, Boruca, and Bribri tribes. I am a cultural activist, artist, and school design coach residing in California. I was raised in traditional plant and cultural knowledge and given the privilege to work with elders from across California and Nevada preserving historic cultural sites and knowledge. I am working on my formal education in Archeology so that I may assist indigenous people with repatriating(repatriar/reclamar) their historic cultural items, documents, photos, and recordings. In doing this work, I want to return those relatives(familiares/parientes) home, thus freeing them from settler-colonial cages also known as “museums” or “archeological archives”.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Hupa/Yurok Matriarch & Food Sovereignty Activist Meagen Baldy presents on Agro-economy: Food as Sustenance and Capital with a *food preservation demo* during Food Sovereignty month! If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you! .

First Foods: Harvesting, Foraging, & Storytelling with Isaac Murdoch If you missed class on Thursday, no worries! Instructor Bomgiizhik (Isaac Murdoch) is streaming now! This class got so much positive feedback much like Linda Black Elk's from the week before last. Glad to know everyone is enjoying the First Foods Program! Issac is from Serpent River First Nation and is a Fish Clan Ojibwe. He is known for his story telling and land based activities. Spending many years on the land with his Elders is his primary education, which he loves to share. He has three beautiful children, Elaine, Preston, and Waabigwan. If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Britt Reed, a Choctaw descendent, is a cook, teacher, artist, and activist for the food sovereignty movement, preparing and preserving Indigenous foodways. She is the founder of the Food Sovereignty is Tribal Sovereignty Facebook group. She is also an I-Collective member, an organization made up of seed keepers, knowledge keepers, chefs, and cooks since 2017and a food service provider for the Tulalip Tribes.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Instructor Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist who specializes in teaching about plants of cultural importance and their uses such as food, medicines and materials. Linda works to develop a curriculum and ways of thinking that promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuel industry.If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!

Isaac Murdoch presents on Rights of Nations during Food Sovereignty month. We have an exciting, dynamic, and #Indigenous-led year ahead of us! If you loved our classes in 2020, please consider rejoining us and sharing this with your friends. REGISTER: bit.ly/FirstFoods2021 First Foods Program is produced by Grinding Stone Collective and made possible through partnership with Green Feather Foundation, Her Many Voices Foundation, and support from community members like you!