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Projects & Programs
Food for Indigenous Futures
A youth intervention program based on community-informed, culturally-based strategies that implement health and wellness curriculum through youth camps (online and in-person), high school course modules, and youth-led research and evaluation practices.
Chef in Residence
Each year we welcome an FSL Chef-in-Residence. Our Chef-in-Residence program includes speaking events, cooking workshops, and discussion panels with Indigenous chefs. These educational events are available for campus and community members and highlight the importance of Indigenous food sovereignty and traditional knowledges across many regions.
Wiyot Plaza & Indigenous Garden
Wiyot Plaza serves as the lab’s dedicated exterior space for land-based education and is a critical element to our institute. The space features a salmon cooking pit behind Cal Poly Humboldt’s Native Forum, acorn processing center, native plant landscape, and an Indigenous food garden.
Indigenous Foods Festival
The Indigenous Foods Festival takes place each fall and focuses on uplifting Indigenous food sovereignty across many regions. The festival is in Wiyot Plaza and at the Food Sovereignty Lab, and includes several organizations that host tables, demonstrations, workshops, discussion panels, food, and art. The Indigenous Foods Festival is an important way to recognize the deeply held knowledges and relationships to place that Indigenous communities maintain in our region.
Place-Based Learning Practices
The ‘Place-Based Learning Practices Project’ will make innovative scholarly contributions at the intersection of western academia and Indigenous science.
Ghvtlh-k’vsh shu'-srnelh-'i (Kelp Guardians)
In partnership with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, Sunken Seaweed, Sea Grant California and Reef Check, the Food Sovereignty Lab will assist in piloting the use of tumble culture for production of lat (Pyropia spp., Nori) to be used in cultural practices and in fostering tribal food sovereignty. This work will also engage Indigenous youth in kelp restoration workshops rooted in community-based participatory methodologies.
