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Measuring Progress

• More participation in growing and hunting • Families are food secure (sufficient nutritious, affordable and
culturally appropriate foods)
• More farmland in the community being used for community
food instead of cash crops • More homes with gardens
• Community being self-reliant for food needs • More food spending happening within community

Key Challenges And Concerns

• Fewer and fewer in the community with cultural knowledge of hunting and farming, lack of knowledge sharing
• Food and farming not seen as a reliable profession, losing interest from young people to learn
• Community is concerned about the use of pesticides and fertilizers by farmers without regulation
• Land being used for crops for short-term profit, particularly tobacco, not foods that nourish the community
• Health of forests and waters is compromised by development, impacting ability to provide fish and game
• Agricultural land is being consumed by development
• Number of community members accessing foodbank is increasing

Suggested Lead Partners

• Six Nations Farmers • Schools • Health Services • SN Wildlife Mgmt.
Association • Our Sustenance • Food Bank • SN Public Library

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019
Standards that would hold farmers and growers accountable in terms of pesticide
Agricultural Land Care and fertilizer use and community food standards, while also implementing land care
Standards and protection standards to protect farmland. Inventory needed to take stock of our agricultural
measures
assets.
Land and funding secured for new food bank with expanded storage and programming,
Build dedicated food bank
SHORT construction to begin in 2019.
(2019-2024)
Develop public knowledge on Various groups in the community are promoting traditional hunting practices, wildlife
safe and sustainable hunting office providing crown land maps.

Conduct Community Food New study to gauge community food security from a lens of our culture and
Sovereignty Study and community (i.e. food sovereignty), food source mapping, traditional food
Mapping consumption. Study would inform future programming to enhance food security.
Existing community garden program through Health Services running programming
Expand Community Gardens from Ohsweken site; land, staff and resources needed to expand and offer more
accessible locations around the community.
MEDIUM Build a multi-purpose Farm SN Farmers Association has plans for a centre to combine tool-sharing, bulk-buying,
(2025-2029) Resource Centre training, processing and selling to build local food economy.

Develop Agricultural Education Training needed to illustrate to young people the opportunities of a farming career
and Training program and offer training to develop necessary skills.

Develop a community wild food Support hunters and fishers who feed to share bounty with community members in
share need. Integrate skill building and culture development.
LONG
(2030-2039)
Create a Haudenosaunee seed Repository needed we can preserve and enhance the diversity of our sustenance.
library Project can be based in new Public Library and Archive Facility.
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