LINKS AND ARTICLES

Using Food to Strengthen Indigenous Culture and Resist Colonization 
CBC Radio - Unreserved
View and listen here

'Indigenous Food is Health Care': symposium imagines future of hospital meals
By: Rhiannon Johnson 
CBC News
View article here

Out to Dry: An Urban Bushwoman's Guide to the Traditional Art and Science of Food Dehydration
By: Audrey Logan and Dehydration Nations
Read the Zine here

Pathways for Starting Country Foods Programs
By: Asfia Kamal
View the report here
 
Boreal Gardening Project website
A website curated by community partner, Grow North, in Leaf Rapids
http://www.borealgardening.com/

Hydroponics for food security in the north
By: Elvira Truglia
McConnell Guest Blog
July 2017
Read the article on Hydroponics

Reconciliation in Philanthropy: Learning By Doing
By: Itoah Scott-Enns
The Philanthropist
May 2017 
​Read the article on the Philanthropist 

A New Chapter for Food Sovereignty
By: Rowen White
Indian Country Today 
May 2017 
Read the article on Food Sovereignty 

Food Politics: Finding a place for country food in Canada’s Northern Food Policy ​
By: Eleanor Stephenson & George Wenzel​
Northern Public Affairs
March 2017 
Read the essay on Food (In)Security 

The Current: How solving community problems with social enterprise is changing lives
CBC Radio
November 2016
Listen to the full episode here 

Land and the Food that Grows on it
By: Tabitha Martens
Briarpatch
August 2016
Read the article on Land and the Food

NAN Food Strategy Collaborative Table - Meeting Report
By: Nishnawbe Aski Nation
July 2016
Read the report here
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Plant Factory pilot project brings fresh vegetables to The Pas
CBC News 
May 2016
​Read the article on The plant Factory Pilot Project 

Is Nutrition North Canada on Shifting Ground?
A Food Banks Canada Report
April 2016
Read the article on Nutrition in North Canada  

What Will it Take to Take to Make Real Progress On Northern Food Security
A Food Banks Canada Report 
April 2016 
Read the article on Northern Food Security 

Peguis Traditional Tobacco
By: Peguis First Nation 
February 2016
Read about Peguis Traditional Tobacco

Home-Grown Hunger
By: Janina Grabs
Guts Magazine (Canadian Feminist Magazine) 
November 2015
Read the article on Food Sovereignty in Canada's North

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Resources for Growing, Harvesting and Storing Your Own Food
Shared from the Northern Healthy Foods Initiative (NHFI) website

1. Growing Potatoes in the Home Garden  ( .pdf / 109 KB )
2. Soils and Gardening in the North  ( .pdf / 322 KB )
3. Easy Steps for Planting Fruit ( pdf / 323 KB )
4. Vegetable Plant Pics  ( .pdf / 4,736 KB )
5. Fruit Crops for Northern Manitoba ( .pdf / 1,149 KB )
6. Gardening Basics  ( .pdf / 42 KB )
7. Garden Manual for Northern Manitoba ( .pdf / 6,569 KB )
8. Managing Small Poultry Flock  ( .pdf / 364 KB )
9. The Basics of Home Canning  ( .pdf / 1,009 KB )
10. Cold Storage for Vegetables  ( .pdf / 998 KB )
11. The Basics of Freezers and Freezing Food  ( .pdf / 824 KB )
12. Starting Seeds Indoor Factsheet  ( .pdf / 495 KB )
13. 2014-2015 Manitoba Trapping Guide  ( .html )
14. Diseases You Can Get From Wildlife  ( .pdf / 4,075 KB )
15. The Food Safety Connection  ( .pdf / 2,085 KB )
16. Food Safety for First Nations Peoples of Canada  ( .pdf / 2,277 KB )