Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/14
Outputs
Target Audience: Critical to the success of Agriculture/Extension Programs at Fort Peck Community College are American Indian producers and landowners on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes combined government is home to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, the second largest reservation in the state. Land is one of the greatest assets to the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes: the exterior boundary of the reservation encompasses approximately 3,200 square miles. This program provided the people of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with education, key concepts, and tools to improve their well being, through agriculture education. Agriculture is a major form of economic activity on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Thus, attention to agriculture, agricultural producers, and individual landowners on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is a vital function for Tribal Extension, with benefits that go beyond individual land owners to the entire tribal community. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Two staff members from Fort Peck Community College participated in Building Native Communities, and became certified to instruct the Building Native Community, a curriculum designed financial education to Native Communities. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Fort Peck Community College utilized an innovative approach to strengthening its Agriculture. All activities will be publicized through posters, flyers, newspaper articles and/or brochures. Activities will also be publicized on the Fort Peck Community College web site and through the social networks utilized by Fort Peck Community. The best avenue to project success involved the development of educational program that includes education, motivation, and support. FPCC followed the traditional extension model for offering workshops, seminars, and presentations, and tours. The workshops, seminars, tours and presentations were general and short-term, ranging from 4 to 30 hours in class time. With the addition to the one-acre garden area, FPCC identified FPCC students to participate in identifying and learning about native plants, and proper techniques to sustaining native plants, as well as traditional garden plants and uses. 10 FPCC students participated over the summer of 2014 to implement a garden area larger than previous gardens developed by FPCC. Students tended to the garden and participated as a internship type opportunity overseeing the garden from seed to plate! What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Delivery of services to stakeholder involvement for this project appeared to be relatively easy given the vast numbers of Indian people of all ages that reside on the reservation. However, recruitment means commitment, and commitment requires effort; so while the target population is definable and approachable, project staff were required to address recruitment with a focus toward commitment and sustainability. FPCC is committed to identifying individuals to participate in the upcoming FPCC Tribal College Extension programming.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Through a series of workshops, the department reached 549individuals who have obtained information to improve their farming and ranching practices, as well as improve the reservations largest asset, land. Of the 549 participants, 48% were American Indian. This number is astonishing consider in 2007, the department was unable to identify participants by race. Equally important is the department promoted reforestation by planting trees to reduce erosion along the Missouri River and established a one-acre garden area that reached 20+ families. Overall, FPCC improved the land base on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation by promoting tree growth development and healthy living through community garden participation. Since 1996, Fort Peck Community College provided outreach extension education for advancing and promoting agriculture. This project addressed a critical need for agriculture, agricultural producers, and landowners on the Fort Peck Reservation. Over 250 American Indian agricultural producers as well as managers of tribally owned lands on the Fort Peck Reservation directly benefited from the educational outreach carried out in this project. It also provided new and important information enabling American Indian agricultural producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation to enhance the financial effectiveness of their operations by providing them with the information they need to make optimal financial decisions with respect to their farming and ranching practices. It is expected that American Indian producers will continue to implement sustainable practices into their operation, improve their management practices through technologies and opportunities provided to them.
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Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Critical to the success of Agriculture/Extension Programs at Fort Peck Community College are American Indian producers and landowners on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes combined government is home to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, the second largest reservation in the state. Land is one of the greatest assets to the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes: the exterior boundary of the reservation encompasses approximately 3,200 square miles. Therefore, this program provided the people of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with education, key concepts, and tools to improve their well being, through agriculture education. Agriculture is a major form of economic activity on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Thus, attention to agriculture, agricultural producers, and individual landowners on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is a vital function for Tribal Extension, with benefits that go beyond individual land owners to the entire tribal community. Agriculture Census data for American Indian reservations show that in 2007, of 687 farms and/or ranches on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 190 were operated by American Indian producers Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? As part of leverage funds at FPCC, one staff member attended Lead 21 training which was beneficial to the extension program and the services offered at Fort Peck Community College. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? It was determined that the best avenue to project success involved the development of educational program that includes education, motivation, and support. FPCC followed the traditional extension model for offering workshops, seminars, and presentations, and tours. The workshops, seminars, tours and presentations were general and short-term, ranging from 4 to 30 hours in class time. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Fort Peck Community College plans to continue to provide agricultural services to American Indian producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Promoting agriculture and other natural resources on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation has been part of the long-term strategic planning at FPCC. The department will continue to educate producers, area youths and non-traditional students in a way that will contribute them the effectiveness and success of their agricultural operation and their responsibility to the environment.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Fort Peck Community College saw great progress in year two of the project. In the beginning, the Agriculture/Extension Department set goals to target 75 agricultural producers (annually) with tools to improve their ability to implement sustainable farming and ranching practices to increase their profitability, provide 150 landowners (annually) on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with land use planning tools to improve the overall welfare of the reservation’s largest asset. A new development taking place with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes is the Agricultural Resource Management Plan, which will increase the opportunities for American Indian farmers and ranchers to improve the sustainability of their operation. In addition, increased American Indian participation in agricultural workshops and/or seminars to sustain farming and ranching operations will be the long term impact of these activities. Through a series of workshops, the department reached 270 individuals who have obtained information to improve their farming and ranching practices. Of that number, 71% were American Indian and 29% were non-Indian. In addition, the department has identified areas for reforestation along the Missouri River banks to improve the land base of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and reduce erosion. 59 individuals improve dtheir area of land base, by promoting tree growth development.
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Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Agriculture is a major form of economic activity on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Thus, attention to agriculture and agricultural producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is a vital function for Tribal Extension, with benefits that go beyond individual land owners to the entire tribal community. FPCC will follow the traditional extension model for offering workshops, seminars, and presentations, and tours. Through a series of workshops, the department has reached 183 individuals who have obtained information to improve their farming and ranching practices. In addition, the department has identified areas for reforestation along the Missouri River banks, which improves the land base of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and reduces erosion along the Missouri River. In addition, the department has identified 59 individuals who will improve their area of land base, by promoting tree growth development. The workshops, seminars, tours and presentations will be general and short-term, ranging from 4 to 30 hours in class time. Existing resources will serve as the support base and it has been determined that the best avenue to project success involves the development of an educational program that includes education, motivation, support, and facilitation designed to encourage individuals with opportunities to provide the people of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with education, key concepts, and tools to improve their wellbeing, through nutrition education, agriculture education and community education. Upon activity completion, Fort Peck Community College staff will work with the Assistant Community Services Director and Vice President of Academics at Fort Peck Community College to ensure the program meets the needs and educational requirements required for Continuing Education Units at Fort Peck Community College. PARTICIPANTS: Utilizing existing collaborative arrangements with Montana State University and the Fort Peck Tribes to offer educational outreach such as Quickbooks and/or quicken, crop rotation, pesticide application, variable rate, animal nutrition, grazing management, rangeland management, conservation and soil management, Federal Farm programs and business planning for new farmers and ranchers is critial to the success of these activities TARGET AUDIENCES: The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes combined government is home to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, and home of Fort Peck Community College, The reservation is the second largest reservation in the state. Land is one of the greatest assets to the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes: the exterior boundary of the reservation encompasses 2,093,318 acres (approximately 3,200 square miles). There are approximately 167 American Indian producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, accompanying 653,115 acres of land used for farming and ranching operations. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Not relevant to this project.
Impacts
Fort Peck Community College has taken strides in the first six month of the project. In the beginning, the Agriculture/Extension Department set goals to target 75 agricultural producers (annually) with tools to improve their ability to implement sustainable farming and ranching practices to increase their profitability, provide 150 landowners (annually) on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation with land use planning tools to improve the overall welfare of the reservation's largest asset. A new development taking place with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes is the Agricultural Resource Management Plan, which will increase the opportunities for American Indian farmers and ranchers to improve the sustainability of their operation. In addition, increased American Indian participation in agricultural workshops and/or seminars to sustain farming and ranching operations will be the long term impact of these activities.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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