Progress 09/01/14 to 08/31/18
Outputs
Target Audience:Oglala Lakota College's Agriculture Extension Department target audience(s) reached are as follows: Pine Ridge Reservation tribal members and community members in general and tribal land owners. Within the last reporting period the program served needs of community organizations also as the Oglala Sioux Tribal Land Office hoop house project clients, Pine Ridge Food Sovereignty Coalition members, Oyate Techa Youth Center garden training program clients, Thunder Valley CCD garden and youth clients, Oglala Lakota College (OLC) students, staff, faculty, and community members, Pine Ridge High School, Red Cloud, Little Wound School, Generations Indigenous Way's clients, and OLC College Centers community clients. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?First Nations Development Institute's The Business of Indian Agriculture & Food Sovereignty Assessment Train the Trainer training was attended by Leslie Rae Henry (OLC's Agriculutre Extension Director) June 27 - 29, 2017 and she is now able to use the First Nations Business of Indian Agriculture curriculum for training local farm and ranch clients with this curriculum. OLC Agriculture Extension Director attended SDSU's Hoop House or High Tunnel training held at the Lakota Fund in Kyle, SD on 9/5/17 to get an understanding of what would be needed for Oglala Sioux Tribe's goals of setting up hoop house production on Pine Ridge Reservation to meet USDA's Rural Development PRAE initiative. She also attended SDSU's alternative crop workshop related to fruit production possibilities and methods of production on the Pine Ridge Reservation also held at Lakota Fund conference room in Kyle, SD. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results of this project have been disseminated to Pine Ridge Reservation communities through OLC's web page site under the services tab and through OLC's assessment office through annual departmental reports. Materials are also provided through the departments program review process by an outside entity through OLC's departmental assessment process. Upon request individual stakeholders are provided the report. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Impact Statements: From June 2017 (last reporting date was May 31, 2017) to August 31st 2018 Oglala Lakota College's Agriculture Extension Department provides science based information to 5, 937 individual requests for information or knowledge (may include more than one request from same client) ranging from insect identification to request for information on how to improve soils for vegetable production. Nineteen percent of these request were from Pine Ridge reservation youth (or their academic instructors) who were under the age of nineteen years old. Thirty-one percent were from adult native men and fifty-one percent were from adult female clients interested in ranching, farming, gardening or high tunnel food production methods. Three percent of the clients requesting assistance were self-identified as either a current gardener or farmer on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Grater then one point two percent were community volunteers who assisted with agriculture programming needs for either youth education or adult training activities in the form of either workshops or individual hands on training. Of those served ninety-eight percent were Pine Ridge Indian Reservation community members with the balance identified as OLC college students. Trainings were provided on the following topics: soil management, basic gardening, insect identification, egg production issues with molting poultry, shelter belt management, rangeland management, food preservation, etc. (not a complete list of trainings provided). Goal 1: Increase knowledge of and involvement in agriculture and natural resources for residents of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Summer if 2017 fifteen community meetings, workshops, trainings, or individual producer's meetings were provided by OLC Agriculture Extension Departmental staff. During the fall of 2017 the department provided or attended thirty-eight community meetings, workshops, trainings or individual producer meetings on topics related to agriculture and/or rural development. Spring of 2018 forty community meetings, workshops, trainings, or individual producer meetings were provided/attended to transfer of science based knowledge to Pine Ridge Reservation clients. During the summer of 2018 only fourteen activities were provided as one of the major summer trainers had a life threating injury and there for could not perform their duties and this was a time when the Agriculture Extension director was off OLC contract for one month as per OLC policies so no services were provided during this time (unless the director chose to do it on her own time). Goal 2: Assist Lakota agricultural producers and landowners to increase their economic yield through technical assistance and workshops. OLC's Agriculture Extension staffing of two personnel conducted, assisted with, or participated in over 107 activities during the last project year serving over 5937 individual emails, phone calls, or personal contacts with agricultural clients to assist with increased production needs or financial records. This knowledge was transferred through community meetings, workshops, emails, phone calls, private appointments, or in a conversation in the hallways of buildings or stores. Agriculture Producer, Volunteer, Community Agency, or local gardener. Many of the clients were new to the process of thinking about themselves as landowners or agriculture producers again this year. Many of the tribal members do not understand that as a tribal member they are one of the landowners that the tribe is managing tribal land for their benefit of services from the tribe. Many of the financial assistance was not in the form of real money gains (actual dollars received for a commodity) but in the form of other capital gains as social, cultural, intellectual, experiential, living, and understanding of land (as one form of financial capital) capital that is jointly owned by each and every tribal member. By adding home grown fresh produce to their meal plans from their own gardens or fields they are really adding a form of financial capital that is not being recorded to any great extent based on current dollar amounts that they have saved or provided to their families' economics. # Declared Ag Producers = 58 # Volunteers = 73 # Community Organizations/Agency's = 18 # Gardeners = 128 Goal 3: Assist with the design and construction of an OLC Ag Expo Center. This goal was changed to upgrade one of Oglala Lakota College's instructional sites with a new facility for instruction of college students and community training workshops during the upcoming year. The facility will be located in the community of Kyle, SD to replace the current Pajuta Haka College Center facilities. Within the new facility it is planned to upgrade the kitchen area for food preservation training workshops. Construction of this facility began during the summer of 2018.
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Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/17
Outputs
Target Audience:New this reporting period is the newly formed Pine Ridge Agriculture Economic steering committee formed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Presidents office in coordination with USDA Rural Development office. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Food Handlers Training was updated by two staff members through Indian Health Service in order to handle any food produce for community training activities within the reservation. http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/staff_training_documents/training_documents_Leslie_Henry/2016_foodhandlers_ihs_lrh_certdoc49599297_011216.pdf http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/staff_training_documents/training_documents_Theresa_Lone_Hill/2015-16_foodhandlers_training_tlh_good_sept2017.pdf Two staff members completed bison management training through workshops provided by South Dakota State Extensions Begining Farmer and Rancher program. GAP training provided to South Dakota commercial vegetable growers through South Dakota State Extension Program was completed by two program staff members. http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/staff_training_documents/training_documents_Theresa_Lone_Hill/2017Certificate%20of%20GAP%20training_7hr_LoneHill.pdf http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/staff_training_documents/training_documents_Leslie_Henry/2017Certificate%20of%20GAP%20training_7hr_Henry.pdf How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Information is desseminated to OLC's local fall BOT meeting through a power point handout where not only OLC BOT members attend but also other department heads and the local college center directors in order that they can pass the infomation on to their community members. Information is linked to OLC's Web page by OLC Assessment Department on all activities and departmental program reviews for access by the general public. Departmental activities are also reported in OLC's general annual report to the stackholders. http://www.olc.edu/administration/assessment/oiar_reports.htm What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The department plans to contiue working with the Pine Ridge Area Food Sovereignty Colitian to progress toward the areas goals to have more locally produced foods available to the residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It also plans to contiue working with the new PRAE (Pine Ridge Agriculture Economic) development plan as requested by two Oglala Sioux Tribal Presidents. http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/department_overview/2016_2017_prae/2016_09_13_OST_president_request.pdf http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/department_overview/2016_2017_prae/2016_12_21_ost_letter_prae.pdf
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
IMPACT: Within the time frame of this project there have been several major initiatives within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to promote food security and sovereignty. OLC's Agriculture Extension program has been working with two other major organizations through the 1994 Extension funding to assist with the production of local foods mainly vegetables the Oyate Techa project in Kyle, SD and Thunder Valley CDC in Porcupine, SD. Four three years of the current funding the OLC Agriculture Extension department has conducted community training activities at Oyate Techa Youth project in Kyle, SD with assistance in demonstrations of planting and garden maintenance and food preservation and this last spring the program has taken on sole management of their program without the need for our assistance other than food preservation training coming this late summer when the vegetables come in. They are moving toward a self-sustaining program with only limited technical assistance from OLC's Agriculture Extension Department. Thunder Valley CDC has taken a leadership role in the move for food security and sovereignty on the Pine Ridge and has been working with OLC Agriculture Extension Department in providing space and a demonstration garden site in two locations on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. One located north of a small community called Sharp's Corner and another located in a pre-school in the community of Oglala. Together the programs provide community educational opportunities for learning about how to increase nutritional quality of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Also, the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribal Presidents office has formally requested that OLC's Agriculture Extension department work with their newly developed steering committee for the areas Pine Ridge Agriculture Economy development project proposed by USDA Rural Development for hoop house vegetable production. This is the first formal request coming from the tribal Presidents office to the OLC's Agriculture Extension Department and the department has provided technical assistance to the new steering committee through the development of local informational factsheets based on local yields of some vegetables. The goal of the tribal agriculture economy development is to increase the number of agriculture produces on the Pine Ridge Reservation through the development of hoop house vegetable production either for personal family consumption or marketing to outside vegetable markets. The tribe is in the process of conducting a feasibility study. http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/department_overview/2016_2017_prae/2016_3_30_PRAE.pdf http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/evaluation_tools/2016_fall_ost_prae_steeringcommittee_map.jpg Project Goals: Goal 1: Increase knowledge of and involvement in agriculture and natural resources for residents of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. During this project period OLC's Agriculture Extension department served over 1750 clients either on an individual bases or through a community workshop or training activite. Fifty-four percent of the clienst were adult clients and 46% youth clients with 60% of the total clients being females. Goal 2: Assist Lakota agricultural producers and landowners to increase their economic yield through technical assistance and workshops. All tribal clients are landowners of tribal lands there for all 1750 clients recieved some benifit through the training they recived or the knowledge about agriculture production they were exposed too. OLC's Agriculture Extension staffing of two personnel conducted, assisted with, or participated in over 103 activities during the last project year serving over 1750 clients. Through workshop evaluation tools the following data was provided by clients as to whether they were a self declared Agriculture Producer, Volunteer, Community Agency, or local gardener. Many of the clients were new to the process of thinking about themselves as landwoners or agriculture producers. # Declared Ag Producers 5 # Volunteers 40 # Community Organizations/Agency's 17 # Gardeners 12 # Evaluation Forms Returned 112 Goal 3: Assist with the design and construction of an OLC Ag Expo Center. OLC Agricultuere Extension Department has completed a lease contract with the Oglala Sioux Tribal Land Office through the BIA for a 25 year lease of ten acres of farmland for the future constrution of an Ag Expo Center where community training and demonstration projects can be carried out for the development of economic activities related to agricultural food, fiber, and shelter production. The area was also fenced off during this preriod to meet lease requirments with a three wire temporary fencing system with a permenent fence to go in after construction is completed. The construction of the facilities is on temporary hold until more fiscial resource are aquired to begin the project.
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Progress 09/01/15 to 08/31/16
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Target Audience:OLC's AECP is relevant to all the goals of TCEP including Agriculture, Tribal Youth and 4-H, Leadership Development, Conservation of Natural Resources and Land Issues, Family and Consumer Science, Health and Nutrition and Economic Development. OLC serves 32,484 (HUD) people over 3,468 square miles of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. OLC's mission is to prepare people for occupations in Lakota country and to study and teach Lakota culture. OLC has 1,800 postsecondary students. The Reservation is the 3rd poorest area in America (US Census Report 2013) and has problems such as poor health, rural isolation, lack of academic preparation and cultural dissonance. The purpose of AECP is to strengthen the capacity of OLC to provide individuals, families and communities with Extension education, outreach and technical assistance. OLC's Agriculture Extension Departments target audience(s) reached are as follows: Pine Ridge Reservatin tribal members and communty members from pre K -12 youth & Native American Adults (both agriculture producers and non-agriculture producers) as all adults are land owners as tribal members. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?OLC Agriculture Extension staff updated their food safety training through Indian Health Service: Theresa Lone Hill - attached certificate: http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/staff_training_documents/training_documents_Theresa_Lone_Hill/2015-16_foodhandlers_training_tlh_good_sept2017.pdf Leslie Rae Henry - attached certificate: http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/assessment/staff_training_documents/training_documents_Leslie_Henry/2016_foodhandlers_ihs_lrh_certdoc49599297_011216.pdf How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?OLC's Agriculture Extension Department completes an annual report to the college Vice President of Instruction at the end of each academic year. This report is posted on OLC's Assessment web site for the general public and stakeholder's access to review. OLC's webpage designers also post it on the OLC Agriculture Extension homepage for public access. http://www.olc.edu/administration/assessment_office.htm What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Impacts: Pine Ridge Reservation community members, landowners, and youth Participated in 82 activities/workshops/training programs (summer of 2015 to spring 2016) provided to staff/faculty/students/community members/agriculture clients. Complete accusation of a lease contract with OST Land Office for 10 acres of land for development of an Ag Expo Center (Put on hold by OLC President until funding increases). Provided training activities to over 800 Pine Ridge area residents. Forty-six percent of trainees identified themselves as male and 54% as females all Native American. Thirteen percent of the contacts declared that they were OLC college students. While only 1% declared themselves as youth (17 or younger). Goal 1: Increase knowledge of and involvement in agriculture and natural resources for residents of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Over eight hundredcommunity members, students, faculty, staff, and/or youth were provided training and/or information related to agriculture and natural resources on the Pine Ridge reservation. Over sixty percent of participants were female and approximately ninty-nine percent were Native American. Goal 2: Assist Lakota agricultural producers and landowners to increase their economic yield through technical assistance and workshops. All of the over eight hundred participants in workshop trainings are landowners with approximatly two percent agriculture producers. Eight local community organizations working with the Thunder Valley CDC to form a Food Soverinty Coalition were assisted with the development of factsheets related to the coalitions need for information. Coalition members have been working on a vision and mission statement for the group and also individuals have been working on informations related to available markets and producers of fresh produce within the Pine Ridge Reseration. Sample Fact Sheets: List of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables That Can Be Grown On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation That Could Be Sold to FDPIR http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/department_overview/factsheets/2016_FoodDistributionProgramonIndianReservations.pdf List of Vegetables, Fruits, and Meats That Can Be Grown On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Could Be Sold to OLC Head Start Program. http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/department_overview/factsheets/2016_hs_vegetable_purchases2draft.pdf Goal 3: Assist with the design and construction of an OLC Ag Expo Center. OLC's Agriculture Extension department worked with OST Land office and OST Land Committee to obtain a land lease contract from the Oglala Sioux Tribe for ten acres of tribal land. Lease contract nigotiantions were completed and contracts signed during this fiscal year. Land was surveyed by OST Land Office in late spring of 2016 and fencing began summer of 2016 by Agriculture Extension staff. Sit will me home of an OLCAg Expo Center and demonstration site for local producers on agriculture technology's.
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Progress 09/01/14 to 08/31/15
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Target Audience:OLC's AECP is relevant to all the goals of TCEP including Agriculture, Tribal Youth and 4-H, Leadership Development, Conservation of Natural Resources and Land Issues, Family and Consumer Science, Health and Nutrition and Economic Development. OLC serves 32,484 (HUD) people over 3,468 square miles of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. OLC's mission is to prepare people for occupations in Lakota country and to study and teach Lakota culture. OLC has 1,800 postsecondary students. The Reservation is the 3rd poorest area in America (US Census Report 2013) and has problems such as poor health, rural isolation, lack of academic preparation and cultural dissonance. The purpose of AECP is to strengthen the capacity of OLC to provide individuals, families and communities with Extension education, outreach and technical assistance. OLC's Agriculture Extension Departments target audience(s) reached are as follows: Pine Ridge Reservatin tribal members and communty members from pre K -12 youth & Native American Adults (both agriculture producers and non-agriculture producers) as all adults are land owners as tribal members. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?In House Training provided by OLC Administration: Ag Extension Director attended three day training on May 19-21, 2014 on Program Learning Outcomes by Dr. Janine Pease, Dr. Greg Gagnon, and Dr. Dawn Frank. Co-curricular Activities Workshop July 30, 2014 presented by Dr. Janine Pease-Pretty On Top attended by Ag Extension Director. Ag Extension Director attended Instructional Division Meeting August 11-12, 2014. Instructional Division Meeting January 5-6, 2015 attended by Ag Extension Department Director. Mandatory Training "American Disabilities Act" May 1, 2015 attended by Ag Extension Department Director. Out of House Training: Four Directions Leadership training conducted by National Relief Charities for Partners was attended and complete by Theresa Lone Hill as part of her professional development from 8-7-14 completed on 3-20-15. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results of OLC Agriculture Extension Department are reported to community members through OLC website through annual administrative reports. Examples can be located at the website below: http://warehouse.olc.edu/local_links/ag/docs/index.php?dir=assessment/annual_reports/ Community based information is provided to trainees at workshops and all information is available upon request. For example members of the Porcupine, SD community requested that the department present to them infomation on OLC Ag Expo Center and a community meeting was held at the Procupine Day School were ten community members recieved the planning document for the center. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?OLC Agriculture Extension Departments plans to continue with food preservation workshop during fall 2015 with local family gardeners, youth centers, local schools, elder programs, OLC college centers (through GED programing), and individuals upon request. Continue the development of OLC Ag Expo Center construction for the future site where community and college student training activities can be conducted for the Pine Ridge Reservation agriculture producers and community members. Once the facilites is constructed and available for community and college events the department will begin the development of livestock training activities related to community intrests as equine therapy and added value training of local produces equine. Also, a local livestock show for youth and adults clients will be considered with assistance from local community volunters.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal 1: Increase knowledge of and involvement in agriculture and natural resources for residents of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Over 1900 youth and adult residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were exposed to some form of agriculture production or natural resource usage of local foods, natural resources or other activities. Goal 2: Assist Lakota agricultueral producers and landowners to increase their economic yeild through techinical assistance and workshops. One hundred and forty self-designated agriculture producers participated in one or more of the workshop training or individual requested information served during the reporting time frame by OLC Agriculture Extension staff. Over 1400 tribal adults and 500 youth were served by the OLC Agriculture Extension Department related to agriculture and natural resource activities from pre-K youth natural resource field trips to home food preservation techniques. As tribal members of Oglala Sioux Tribe all of the trainees are tribal landowners and as such are becoming aware of their rolerelated tousage and protection of natural resources on the Pine Ridge reservation from garden to range management. Goal 3: Assist with the design and construction of an OLC Ag Expo Center. OLC Agriculture Extension Department needed to find a new land location for the proposed Ag Expo Center building site. Two locations were evaluated by a consultant at the main OLC Administration campus with both requiring over a million dollars of landscaping before constrution could begin. Department was given the directive to find a new location before the project could go forward from OLC presidents office. Community meeting held in Porcupine, SD as to if there would be a possable location on private land in that area. No paper work turned in to department so they began to look at other sites. In December 2014 put in paperwork to Oglala Sioux Tribal (OST) Land Office to lease tribal land closer to OLC Administration campus. Through this process the land location needed to go through an environmental and historical assessment for construction of an Ag Expo Center. The process of review was a six month activity before going to OST Land Committee which passed the application on June 8, 2015 then refered to BIA Land office for contract of a 24 year 11 month lease.
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