Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:Menominee Indian School District and Menominee Indian Headstart students, staff and family. Changes/Problems:Coordinator left at the beginning of second year of grant. This required the college to hire a new coordinator and programming fell behind. The college was able to obtain a no cost extension in order to complete the project goals. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Staff utilized funds to attend the annual Native Nutrition Conference held at Mystic Lake, in Minnesota. This event is sponsored by the First Nations Development Institute. In addtion staff was able to attend and present at the First American Land Grant Consortium conference. An annual meeting of all Tribal College exetension programs to learn about and share ideas of training and agriculture related topics. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Menominee Nation News Facebook College of Menominee Nation Website What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Over the course of the program, the farm to school coordinator worked closely with the local school district, developing a garden club that traveled to a number of field trips to learn about local food opportunities, local growing and even a training on community engagement. Among the workshops that occurred locally coordinated by the farm to school coordinator included topics such as; sunflowers, spinach, dairy farming, pumpkins, radishes, aquaponics and food handling and safety with a total number of participant of 208 youth. The farm to school coordinator was also a certified ServSafe instructor and provided food handling certification to the cooks and staff at the schools through this grant. This was an area we had not originally planned for but when the coordinator was hired she was already certified to conduct the training so we felt it would fit well with the programming that was occurring with the schools. We were also able to leverage the grant and bring in a VISTA/Americorp volunteer to assist with the program. She has worked with the Farm to School Coordinator with programming. They have recently reached out and started designing programming for the Menominee Tribal Headstart to look for ways to bring healty and nutritional snacks and eating habits into the headstart. In addition,the coordinatorcollaboratied with the Menominee Indian High Schoolteacher Marie Raasch the Family and Consumer Education teacher. 127 students were educated about the importance of eating healthy while maintaining a healthy life style. Lessons and activities included sensory/taste testing, apple give away and cooking event.The sensory activity exposed students to different fruits they may not have encountered before. Students were blind folded with their ability to smell restricted and asked to identify different fruits by only using their sense of taste. Taste testing was a fun way of introducing students to new foods or recipes they may have never tried before. This then led students to exploring different ways to prepare new reciped of interest. Students were taught about different verities, the growth/production cycle along with different ways to prepare apples. Apples were purchased from a local vender were which were used for cooking and also given away to local families. Students were taught about the importance of growing their own food, buying local produce and started their own classroom herb garden.
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Progress 09/01/17 to 08/31/18
Outputs
Target Audience:Menominee Idian School District students, staff and families. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Staff continues to attend annually the Native Nutrition Conference held at Mystic Lake, in Minnesota. This event is sponsored by the First Nations Development Institute. Staff also attends the annual FALCON conference. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Menominee Nation News Facebook Website What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to work with the school, the Headstart and the community to keep pushing the initiatives forward that have been put in place.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
MISD high school garden club has been active over the past year. They attended a weekend community engagement training at UW-Madison in the Spring and planted a large garden plot they plan on sharing with the community, of pumpkins, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, peas, beans, squash and potatoes. MISD has shown an interest in hydroponics, recently purchasing a building and a hydroponics system. We took the staff and students of an established hdroponics system in Sturgeon Bay, WI. In July, our VISTA/Americorp worker started. She is a graduate of Toledo University with a major in Anthropology. She will be working with the school program and trying to get other ages and grades involved. She was met with the nutrition coordinator at the Menominee Tribal Headstart to look for ways to bring healty and nutritional snacks and eating habits into their programs. Farm to School Coordinator worked with a group to submit a grant to the First Nations Seeds of Native Health program to conduct a local convening with regard to food sustainability and security on the reservation. The grant was awarded and surveys were conducted in the school asking youth about what they perceive as healthy eating and what are some of the needs of the community to make it healthier. By far the overwhelming answer was more opportuniities and education.
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Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/17
Outputs
Target Audience:Menominee Indian School District students, staff, and families. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?*Attended Falcon in November 2016 *Joined the Menominee Wellness Initiative Committee October 2016 *Joined the Community Engagement Workgroup and attends quarterly November 2016 *Created a committee on Food & Energy Sovereignty that is focused locally May 2017 *Attended a seminar on Cultural Resilience - April 2017 *Attended multiple local workshops to improve skills in gardening: Healing Body, Mind, & Spirit: Implementation, Forest to Plate, Colors Training, and Trauma informed Care Approach. *Participated in webinars to stay informed of policies and what other schools are doing with their Farm to School grants: Versatile Fruit: Made on American Farms for Kids in Our Schools, Leadership Series: Dealing with Conflict during Change, and GO! Conducting Your Community Food Sovereignty Assessment How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?CMN website and Menominee Nation News What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Create Wild Rice Schedule for MISD students to attend field trips to learn the different cycles, harvest, nutritional value, and how to cook wild rice. *Encourage Keshena Primary School teachers to utilize green house to maintain produce to be used in monthly menus. Assist with workshops and help coordinate workshops to educate different topics about gardening. *Assist with cost and help plan for aquaponics and hydroponic green house at the Menominee Indian High School to raise their own salad, tomatoes, bell peppers, and carrots to be used in their Friday salad bar. *Continue offering educational opportunities for students to attend local farms, vendors, and businesses to increase their knowledge of food sovereignty and healthy lifestyles. *Assist and attend garden clubs to keep the kids and staff motivated.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
*Hired full-time enrolled Tribal Member, Amanda Reiter, AAS, BLS. Amanda has a strong background in community work and facilitating workshops. *Joined Menominee Indian Middle School Garden Club and provided multiple nutrition and garden workshops to 11-20 students and three staff members. *Collaborated with our VISTA employee and UW Extension to provide on-site and off-site Farm to School workshops for the Keshena Primary School; Sunflower Workshop 10/3/16 - 31 Students/5 Teachers, Spinach Workshop 10/11/16 - 8 Students/2 Teachers, Local Dairy (F2S)Workshop 10/20/16- 45 Students/4 Teachers, Pumpkin Workshop 10/26/16 - 44 Students/2 Teachers, Root Workshop 11/21/2016 - 31 Students/4 Teachers, Nutrition Labels Workshop - 2 Students/2 Teachers. *Held taste testing for herbs (family herb garden project) and fruits (bag on the go shake w/ Greek Yogurt) for the Middle School Garden Club. *Helped create a High School Garden club and recruited four staff members to help facilitate. Currently we have 6-12 high school students who are participating on a weekly basis. *Arranged transportation for 28 High School and Middle School students/staff to attend a field trip on 2/06/2017. Attendees visited Growing Power in Milwaukee, WI. Students learned about aquaponics gardening and inspired students to incorporate in current garden. *Assisted Menominee Indian Middle School Garden Club with layout suggestions and ideas of 2017 garden. Presented to the Menominee Indian School District Board Members on 3/20/2017. *Recruited Menominee Culture Teacher to join Middle School Garden Club. *Working with HS Principal on purchasing an aquaponics green house for educational purposes only. *Collaborated with UW Extension and Woodland Boys and Girls to offer Summer Garden Workshops to youth to maintain the gardens for harvesting in fall. *Worked with Nutrition Director to get the Hoop House up and running at the Keshena Primary School.
Publications
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Farm to School Website
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Menominee Nation News Articles
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