Progress 09/01/17 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience is the Native American tribal members and descendants of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs of all ages. The Warm Springs Reservation is a community that is plagued with chronic unemployment, is classified as a "food desert", and is economically and educationally disadvantaged. Changes/Problems:Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person programming essentially ceased until May of 2021. Even when we were able to return to in-person events, there was little interest from the community due to the uncertainty of whether events would be indoors or outdoors, what masking rules would be, etc. The livestock vaccination clinic and horse castration clinic were cancelled as the USDA veterinarians we partner with were not allowed to assist. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Staff has attendedthe Northwest Intertribal Agriculture Council meetings either in-person or virtually 3 times. PI has attended 3 FRTEP Professional Development meetings in person at the various locations, attended one virtually. Attended the FALCON Conference in 2020 (virtual). PI is a member of the OSU Extension Indigenous Peoples Work Group. PI has attended the Intertribal Agriculture Council National meetings in Las Vegas (or virtually) annually. PI is a member of the National 4-H Access, Equity, and Belonging Committee's American Indian/Alaska Native Champion Group. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our partnership with KWSO radio, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs' radio station, has increased the reach of our Extension programming by broadcasting educational materials to the entire area that KWSO reaches and all who listen to the station either regionally or via the internet from other parts of the country. KWSO shares links to Extension resources through their social media and website which draws a broader audience to our resources and has made OSU Extension in Warm Springs much more visible despite the very rural area and multiple shut downs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also utilize our social media pages to share information on classes, timely information, and other relevant items with the community. Our social media postings on a recent formula recall was picked up by the tribal Health and Human Services to be used on their social media and outreach, noting that the graphics we developed for the recall information were clear and attention grabbing. We share information through the CTWS newspaper, the Spilyay - Tymoo, as needed. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal #1 - Tribal Youth and 4-H Objective 1 2 raised bed demonstration gardens at the Tribal Education office building where the Extension office is housed were established or improved and were used to host garden education classes for the community, produce was used in Nutritition and Food Preservation education, excess produce was donated within the community. After school garden education lessons offered every Fall and Spring at the Warm Springs Academy (approximately 36 sessions over 4 years - no classes held in 2020-2021 school year and none until Spring of 2021-2022) Developed curriculum for Junior Master Gardeners at the Warm Springs Academy Objective 2 In January/February of 2018, 2019, and 2020, collaborated with the OSU Extension SNAP-Ed team to host the annual Iron Chef in the Nutrition Kitchen cooking series and competition for 8th graders at the Warm Springs Acadmey. In the 6 class series, youth develop skills to help them work as a team, manage their time, learn food and kitchen safety, how to read recipes and modify recipes to make more or less, and the nutritional importance of the food groups. Each year there is an average of 10 participants in the series (2-3 teams of 4). Each session in the series focuses on a different recipe that the teams work to prepare together within the allotted time. The series ends with a local competition between the WSA teams with tribal community members acting as the judges. The Warm Springs participants always look forward to these series and the SNAP-Ed educators are always asked when the next series will be. Parents and guardians report being very pleasantly surprised when the youth offer to help in the kitchen, or demonstrate their knife skills, or share some new thing that they've learned in the series. Objective 3 Youth garden education classes included the importance of food preservation not only for food security but also as a potential business. One parent reported that through the garden education provided the family began growing their own tomatoes and their daughter requested to be able to can some of the tomatoes. Objective 4 In Spring of 2018, 2019, 2021and 2022, the Food Preservation team and other Extension staff collaborated with the Culture and Heritage Department and the Warm Springs Academy on a root digging field trip for the 4th grade classes.Extension staff provide support by assisting with plant identification and the nutrtitional value of the traditional foods. In August 2021 & 2022, Extension staff and faculty participated in teaching nutrition and garden lessons for the Warm Springs Academy's 3 week long Summer School. Lessons included handwashing skills, tasting Food Hero recipes, and in 2021 tasting chokecherries harvested from trees just outside the classrooms.Students tasted the raw, bitter chokecherry and then tasted chokecherry juice made by the food preservation educators. The students noticed a dramatic difference between the two and preferred the juice (even with no added sugar!). Objective 5 Garden education classes allow youth that have participated in the class previously to act as aides during lessons, helping younger students or new students to understand concepts and master activities. Goal #2 - Indian Farmer and Rancher Productivity and Management Objective 1 In February of 2018, 2019, 2020 coordinated Brucellosis vaccination clinic with USDA-APHIS veterinarians. At one event, de-wormed 72 head of cattle and administered Brucellosis cattle vaccine to 51 head of heifers. Thanks to free veterinary services provided by USDA veterinarians and low cost vaccines, tribal ranchers saved approximately $10 per head on Brucellosis vaccinations x 51 heifers equals a savings of $510. In addition, a per hour veterinarian labor charge of $100 per hour for the five hour clinic equates to $500 for a total cost savings that day for tribal members of $1,110. Numbers varied from year to year, but participants always stated their appreciation for this event and the time put in by Extension and veterinary staff. Objective 2 Due to budget cuts within the Tribesin 2017, the CTWS Range and Ag Department disbanded the cowboy crew responsible for rounding up wild horses for this event resulting in the cancellation of these clinics. Objective 3 Thanks to USDA-APHIS providing free veterinarian services and a discounted rate for the Coggins test, tribal members only paid $11 for the Coggins test. This equates to a savings of $110 per horse. OSU Extension has averaged 30 horses tested each year for a total savings of $3,300 per year. There were 15 people in attendance in 2018,of which eight responded to a post clinic survey. On a scale of one (low) to ten (high) all respondents recorded a ten in response to the question, "how helpful is this workshop to you?" In response to the question, "does this vaccination clinic save you money", all eight recorded a response of ten (high) Objective 4 In 2017-2018, Scott Duggantaught a series of gardening classes: Fruit Trees & Fall Gardening, Cool Season Gardening, Gardening 101, and Fruit Tree Production. Classes averaged eight tribal members in attendance who were interested in gardening and growing food for their families.One tribal member mentioned how lucky Warm Springs was to have the FRTEP program on the reservation. Objective 5 Expanded the Demonstration Gardens at the Extension office location to include fruit trees, berries, and grape vines. Hosted a fruit tree pruning workshop for two employees at the Warm Springs Community Center. Objective 6 At the annual Pi-Ume-Sha Health Fair, garden education activities were held in partnership with nutrition education to encourage growing fresh fruits and vegetables and preparing them in tasty, healthy meals or snacks. Objective 7 Fenced the community garden area at Simnasho District, refurbished the gathering area, and installed raised beds to improve accessibility and ease of use in the garden. Staffing changes for the Warm Springs community garden saw the loss of the garden manager and no one was re-hired into that position. Goal #3 - Indian Community Development/Food Systems, Farm & Community Markets Objective 1 In 2018, performed soil tests on a garden developed by tribal member Howie Patt. Howie is raising a large garden and hopes to market produce locally. Howie regularly attended OSU garden classes in 2016 and 2017 and was very happy to attend the classes so he could start his own vegetable production business. In 2020, by leveraging FRTEP funds, we were able to obtain a grant to develop a home garden kit for community members to create their own small raised garden beds and grow their own foods at home rather than host gardening classes in-person. Each kit included lumber, soil, seeds or starts, and printed instructions for the planting, care, and harvesting of their gardens. In addition, simple food preservation methods and recipes for the produce grown was added to each kit. Printed materials were essential as much of the reservation does not have reliable internet access. Objective 2 In 2017, 2018, and 2019 OSU Extension hosted the annual Fruit Loop Tour of the orchards in the Hood River area. OSU provided a van(s) and a driver(s)along with OSU Staff as many tribal members do not drive or do not have reliable transportation. OSU also provided a free canning class following the tour in order to preserve fruit purchased on the tour and teach safe food preservation canning practices. Many participants are elders in the community who pass the knowledge they gain in the classesto their family members, thereby greatly increasing the impact of a small preservation class. In the fall of 2020, the food preservation staff began running monthly PSA's on the local radio station (KWSO) on food safety and food preservation topics relevant to the seasons and cycles of the community. These PSA's have a very broad reach and have been well recieved by the community.
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Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience: The target audience are the Native American tribal members and descendants of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs of all ages. The Warm Springs Reservation is a community that is plagued with chronic unemployment, is classified as a "food desert", and is economically and educationally disadvantaged. Changes/Problems:Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person programming essentially ceased until May of 2021. Even when we were able to return to in-person events, there was little interest from the community due to the uncertainty of whether events would be indoors or outdoors, what masking rules would be, etc. The livestock vaccination clinic and horse castration clinic were cancelled as the USDA veterinarians we partner with were not allowed to assist. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Tracy Wilson has participated in the FRTEP Professional Development sessions hosted virtually, and in a variety of conferences and workshops hosted by the Intertribal Agriculture Council. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Monthly reports are submitted to the CTWS Education Department Manager and newsletters posted to the OSU Extension -Warm Springs website. Links relevant to the monthly PSA's are posted to the Warm Springs Extension Facebook page and the KWSO website and Facebook page. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will continue our successful PSA campaign and include any in-person events in the radio spots. We are developing an outdoor, mobile food preservation kitchen to host workshops outdoors. We are filming food preservation techniques and gardening videos to share with the community so that our community can continue to safely preserve the foods they gather, hunt, and harvest.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing shutdowns and the need to halt in-person outreach efforts, all efforts moved to remote methods of outreach. Goal #1: Gardens at the CTWS Early Childhood Education Center andWarm Springs Academy K-8 were maintained throughout the year so that when students were able to return, the gardens were still active and productive and ready to be utilized for teaching by the staff of the facilities. In the Spring of 2021, John Brunoe leveraged FRTEP funds for a grant todevelopa Pollinator Garden at the Warm Springs Academy. The lack of pollinators in the previous year had resulted in disappointment for students when they planted and cared for their pumpkin plants, watched them flower and yet never produce a pumpkin. This was due to the lack of pollinators in the area. By creating the pollinator habitat around the gardens, there are pumpkins at the school garden for the first time this year. In the Spring of 2021, members of the Extension Food Preservation team were able to attend the annual root digging field trip with the Warm Springs Academy 4th graders. In August 2021, Extension staff and faculty participated in teaching nutrition and garden lessons for the Warm Springs Academy's 3 week long Summer School. Lessons included handwashing skills, using strawberries from the garden for an Any Berry Sauce (recipe from Food Hero), and tasting chokecherries harvested from trees just outside the classrooms. Chokecherry is a tradition food for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Students tasted the raw, bitter chokecherry and then tasted chokecherry juice made by the food preservation educators. The students noticed a dramatic difference between the two and preferred the juice (even with no added sugar!). Goal #2: By leveraging FRTEP funds, we were able to obtain a grant to develop a home garden kit for community members to create their own small raised garden beds and grow their own foods at home rather than host gardening classes in-person. Each kit included lumber, soil, seeds or starts, and printed instructions for the planting, care, and harvesting of their gardens. In addition, simple food preservation methods and recipes for the produce grown was added to each kit. Printed materials were essential as much of the reservation does not have reliable internet access. Goal #3: In the fall of 2020, the food preservation staff began running monthly PSA's on the local radio station (KWSO) on food safety and food preservation topics relevant to the seasons and cycles of the community. These PSA's have a very broad reach and have been well recieved by the community.
Publications
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Journal Articles
Status:
Under Review
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Duggan, S. J., Wilson, T., and Davis, O. (Submitted 2021). Gardening: A Teaching Tool for a Tribal Community. Journal of Extension. In Review.
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Progress 09/01/19 to 08/31/20
Outputs
Target Audience: The target audience is Native American tribal members of the Warm Springs reservation to include youth as well as adults. The Warm Springs Reservationis a community that is plagued with chronic unemployment, is classified as a "food desert", and is economically and educationally disadvantaged. Changes/Problems:The COVID-19 pandemic was, and remains, a challenge for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the Warm Springs Extension Unit. The tribal government was shut down from mid-March to late May, then as they slowly reopened there was another large outbreak in mid-July prompting the tribal government to again shut down for a little over a month. We remain committed to the Extension mission and to the safety of the community we serve and are working towards adapting programming as rapidly and effectively as possible but the reality that much of the reservation lacks reliable internet connectivity is an ongoing challenge. In addtion to the pandemic, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs deal with ongoing water infrastructure failures that create outages for portions of the reservation for days, weeks, sometimes months at a time. This makes maintaining Extension Gardens particularly challenging as the reservation is located in the High Desert region of Oregon. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?• Tracy Wilson and Ellise David attended the Northwest Intertribal Agriculture annual meeting in Pendleton, OR - September 2019 • Tracy Wilson attended the annual FRTEP Professional Development Conference in Sault St. Marie, MI - October 2019 • Tracy Wilson, John Brunoe, and Ellise David attended the Annual Intertribal Agriculture Council Meeting in Las Vegas, NV - December 2019 How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The Warm Springs Extension Unit submits monthly reports to the Education Department, which are shared with Tribal Council. In addition, the Warm Springs Extension Facebook page is active and our stories and activities are regularly shared there with the community, articles and/or stories are frequently submitted to the tribal newspaper, Spilyay Tymoo, and events and classes are regularly advertised through the Warm Springs radio station, KWSO. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are continuing to adapt our programming to more remote offerings, while acknowledging that much of the community does not have access to reliable internet. We will be sharing more information in the form of pre-recorded webinars, printed materials, small gatherings (when permitted and able to do so safely). We will continue offering our "Grow Where You Are" garden boxes through the Fall of 2020 and Spring 2021 and providing information and resources to help community members ensure they are as successful as possible in their food security journey. We will be working to establish a Warm Springs Agriculture 4-H Club for youth that are interested in participating in the program with financial assistance available for youth to put towards, for example, purchasing an animal to show at Fair.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal #1 - Tribal Youth FRTEP funds were utilized in management of the OSU Extension Learning Gardens and the Warm Springs Academy garden. • John Brunoe, OSU 4-H Educator, utilized FRTEP funding and other grant funds to teach a 6 week session in collaboration with the Warm Springs Academy's 21st Century Learners Afterschool Program. The classes introducedWarm Springs youth to the biology of gardening by introducingplant parts, pollinators, fruit production, soils, vegetable production, and watering concepts. Students were engaged in hands-on activities like cleaning and preparing the beds,measuring row spacing,planting in the raised beds and greenhouse, watering, and harvesting. • Tracy Wilson,John Brunoe, andRosanna Sanders, OSU Extension SNAP-Ed, taught the annual"Iron Chef in the Nutrition Kitchen" series (6 classes) to 12middle school students at the Warm Springs K-8 Academy. In the series, students engage in team building skills, nutrition activities/lesssons, food safety, and cooking skills. The winning team from the school, moves on to compete against other area schools. The Warm Springs Academy Team placed second in the regional competition. Goal #2 - Native American Farmer and Rancher Productivity • Scott Duggan, OSU Extension Livestock Agent, hosted a wild horse castration clinic with USDA, Oregon State University VeterinarySchool and the WarmSpringsRange and Agriculture Department. Twenty wild horses were castrated and tested. • Hosted a workshop for livestock producers on Radio Frequency Cattle Identification Ear Tags. This workshop was a collaboration between OSU Extension, USDA-APHIS, and the Warm Springs Range and Agriculture Department. • Annual Cattle Vaccination Clinic was held in partnership withOSU Extension, USDA-APHIS, and the Warm Springs Range and Agriculture Department. This clinic is a valuable program to the livestock producers of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. • Scott Duggan, in response to the ongoing drought and recent wildfires, was (and still is)in close communication with the Warm Springs Range and Ag Department to aid in navigating the Livestock Indemnity Relief Payments through the Farm Service Agency. Goal #3 - Native American Food Systems •John Brunoe maintained the OSU Extension Learning Gardens despite the shut downs related to the COVID-19 pandemic and maintained connections with the Senior Center and Child Protective Services, delivering produce from the gardens to the locations to be included in the meals for the residents.? • In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, FRTEP funds in addition to other funds, were used to create "Grow Where You Are" Garden Boxes for community members. Each kit included a 2 ft by 2 ft raised garden box with soil, seeds or plant starts, instructions for planting, growing, and harvesting the plants included in the kit, and Food Hero sheets on the vegetables included in the kit, recipes, and food preservation information. •Tracy Wilson in collaboration with Rosanna Sanders and Olivia Davis, OSU Extension SNAP-Ed, are continuing to update an educational display case of traditional foods of the tribes of Warm Springs. The original case was created over 50 years ago and many of the samples are deteriorating to the point that they can no longer be utilized. Thus far, the project has updated scientific names and common names and has expanded on the previous project by including the tribal names for the foods from all three tribes. A harvest timeline has been drafted to help tribal members have a deeper understanding of when the traditional foods are harvested in the region. A local Native American artist has been contracted to create artwork depicting several of the traditional foods for an illustrated harvest timeline. In addtition the project team has created a Community Advisory Board for the project to ensure that all three of the tribes that make up the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are represented and to ensure that all of the information is culturally appropriate.
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Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience: The target audience is Native American tribal members of the Warm Springs reservation to include youth as well as adults. Warm Springs is a community that is plagued with chronic unemployment, is classified as a "food desert", and is economically and educationally disadvantaged. Changes/Problems:One of our program goals was to continue working with the Warm Springs Range & Ag department to organize wild horse castration clinics. Unfortunately, due to tribal budget cuts in 2017, the Warm Springs Range and Ag department will no longer engage in wild horse roundups. The cowboy crew was laid off effectively ending the program for the foreseeable future. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? • Carol Tollefson attended the Northwest Indian Ag Country annual meeting in Pendleton in October. • Tracy Wilson attended FRTEP conference in Tulsa, OK • Tracy Wilson participated in Intertribal Ag Council national conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? OSU has an active Facebook page telling our story. Stories are frequently submitted to the tribal newspaper, Spilyay Tymoo. Events and classes are regularly advertised through the Warm Springs radio station, KWSO. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? A future goal is to develop a demonstration orchard for tribal members that wish to engage in orchard operations as an agricultural business. Another goal is to offer "build-a-bed" garden classes where tribal members who participate will learn how to build and maintain a raised garden bed and at the conlusion of the class will recieve the materials needed to build a bed at their location, along with soil to fill it, and seeds to plant. A longer term goal is to secure land to develop a demonstration orchard and berry production area.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Goal #1 - Tribal Youth FRTEP funds were utilized to expand the Youth Garden to include more raised garden beds and fruit trees and bushes. John Brunoe, OSU Educational Program Assistant, utilized a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant and FRTEP funding to teach 17 STEM gardening classes to Warm Springs youth. Students learned about plant parts, pollinators, fruit production, soils vegetable production and watering. John Brunoe, has assisted Warm Springs Academy on maintaining the new greenhouse and utilizing the greenhouse by holding classes and afterschool programs inside. John Brunoe has developed a Junior Master Gardener Program at Warm Springs Academy (WSK8) and continues to work with the youth in that group. In addition to learning about gardening, the goal is to provide fresh produce to the Warm Springs farmer's market and the Child Protective Services Group Home. John is also teaching a "Rise & Shine" gardening program to elementary kids at WSK8 on Mondays prior to the start of school. John held six garden education classes with 19 students participating. Students engaged in hands on activities in the greenhouse and planted raised garden boxes with vegetables. The 12 4x4 raised garden boxes at the WSK8 were again used in facilitating students planting radishes, carrots, snap-peas, sunflowers and pumpkins. John Brunoe is working with tribal Boys and Girls club to host gardening activities during the summer of 2019. Tracy Wilson and John Brunoe assisted Rosanna Sanders, OSU Extension SNAP-Ed, in presenting the "Iron Chef in the Nutrition Kitchen" series (6 classes) to 14 middle school students at WSK8. In the series, students engage in team building skills, nutrition activities/lesssons, food safety, and cooking skills. The winning team from the school, moves on to compete against other area schools. Goal #2 - Native American Farmer and Rancher Productivity • Coordinated Brucellosis vaccination clinic with USDA-APHIS veterinarians. De-wormed 114 head of cattle and administered Brucellosis cattle vaccine to 51 head of heifers. Thanks to free veterinary services provided by USDA veterinarians and low-cost vaccines, tribal ranchers saved approximately $10 per head on Brucellosis vaccinations x 51 heifers equals a savings of $510. In addition, a per hour veterinarian labor charge of $100 per hour for the five hour clinic equates to $500 for a total cost savings that day for tribal members of $1,110. • I collaborated with USDA-APHIS veterinarians to organize a horse vaccination clinic and Coggins testing. Thirty-four horses were tested for Equine Infectious Anemia with the Coggins test. An additional 42 horses were given annual vaccinations and de-wormer. Thanks to USDA-APHIS providing free veterinarian services and a discounted rate for the Coggins test, tribal members only paid $11 for the Coggins test. This equates to a savings of $110 per horse. OSU Extension has averaged 30 horses tested each year for a total savings of $3,300 per year. There were 15 people in attendance of which seven responded to a post clinic survey. On a scale of one (low) to five (high) respondents recorded an average response of 4.85 to the question, "how helpful is this workshop to you?" In response to the question, "does this vaccination clinic save you money", all recorded a response of yes. Comments recorded on the surveys included responses such as "very helpful" and "great program and people who make this accommodation to the community." Goal #3 - Native American food systems Expanded the Youth Learning Garden to include additional raised beds, fruit trees, and blueberry bushes. Produce from the Youth Learning Garden was delivered to Warm Springs Child Protective Services Center. Assisted Dustin Seyler in testing soil from his home. He is increasing production of his raised beds with the goal of producing fresh produce for his family and eventually for sale at either the WS Farmers Market or the local grocery store. OSU Extension set up a booth at the Pi-Um-Sha Health Fair and did garden and nutrition education activities teaching about healthy eating. John Brunoe maintained a raised garden bed for the Warm Springs Community Center to provide vegetables for the Center and to promote gardening and healthy eating. A fruit loop tour was organized for Sept 2018. OSU provided a van and a driver along with OSU Staff as many tribal members do not drive. OSU also provided a free canning class the next day in order to preserve fruit purchased on the tour for the winter months and teach safe food preservation canning practices. Tracy Wilson in collaboration with Rosanna Sanders and Olivia Davis, OSU Extension SNAP-Ed, are working to update an educational display case of traditional foods of the tribes of Warm Springs. The original case was created over 50 years ago and many of the samples are deteriorating to the point that they can no longer be utilized. Thus far, the project has updated scientific names and common names and has expanded on the previous project by including the tribal names for the foods from all three tribes. A harvest timeline is currently in progress to help tribal members have a deeper understanding of when the traditional foods are harvested in the region.
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Progress 09/01/17 to 08/31/18
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience is Native American tribal members of the Warm Springs reservation to include youth as well as adults. Warm Springs is a community that is plagued with chronic unemployment, is classified as a "food desert", and is economically and educationally disadvantaged. Changes/Problems:One of our program goals was to continue working with the Warm Springs Range & Ag department to organize wild horse castration clinics. Unfortunately, due to tribal budget cuts, the Warm Springs Range and Ag department will no longer engage in wild horse roundups. The cowboy crew has been laid off effectively ending the program for the near future. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? I attended the Northwest Indian Ag Country annual meeting in Pendleton in September. Attended FRTEP conference in Polson, Montana I attended the Oregon Cattlemen's annual conference classes on livestock health, sage grouse programs and wolf predation. I participated in Indian Ag Country national conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. I prepared slides of Warm Springs Extension program and submitted to speaker who introduced different FRTEP programs acknowledging NIFA as funding source for Extension programs in Indian Country. I attended Oregon State Cattlemen's day workshops Attended Oregon State Soil Science Society workshop on soils. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?OSU submits articles on our classes and activities to the tribal newspaper, the Spilyay OSU has an active Facebook page telling our story What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?A future goal is to introduce nutritious food into the school cafeteria provided by our youth gardening programs.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The Warm Springs reservation has been plagued for years with chronic unemployment, health issues due to unhealthy eating habits, low and a struggling livestock production industry. USDA classifies Warm Springs as a"food desert" and 95% of children attending the Warm Springs K-8 School qualify for free or reduced school lunches. OSU Extension has been collaborating with the Warm Springs tribe for 50 years to promote healthy eating habits through nutrition education (SNAP-ED), increase food production on the reservation by providing agriculture production classes and reduce unemployment through vocational training. Goal #1 - Tribal Youth FRTEP funds were utilized to build a new Youth Garden to include raised garden beds, fencing the perimeter and a garden shed for storage of garden tools and supplies. John Brunoe, OSU Educational Program Assistant, utilized a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant and FRTEP funding to teach 17 STEM gardening classes to Warm Springs youth. Students learned about plant parts, pollinators, fruit production, soils vegetable production and watering. Sara Rogers, OSU Extension SNAP-ED, secured a $10,000 Farm to School grant for Warm Springs Academy. I am working with Sara to provide expertise and guidance to the school and teachers in order to start a gardening program. I have assisted Warm Springs Academy on setting up a new greenhouse and purchasing $1,500 worth of gardening tools and supplies. Recruitment of Ellise David, Madras High School senior, as a mentor for the garden club. John Brunoe has developed a Junior Master Gardener Program at Warm Springs Academy (WSK8). In addition to learning about gardening, the goal is to provide fresh produce to the Warm Springs farmer's market and the Child Protective Services Group Home. John is also teaching a "Rise & Shine" gardening program to elementary kids at WSK8 on Mondays prior to the start of school. John held six garden education classes with 19 students participating. Students engaged in hands on activities in the greenhouse and planted raised garden boxes with vegetables. A total of 12 4x4 raised garden boxes and soil were installed at the WSK8 facilitating students planting radishes, carrots, snap-peas, sunflowers and pumpkins. John worked with tribal Boys and Girls club to host gardening activities during the summer of 2018. Goal #2 - Native American Farmer and Rancher Productivity Coordinated Brucellosis vaccination clinic with USDA-APHIS veterinarians. De-wormed 72 head of cattle and administered Brucellosis cattle vaccine to 51 head of heifers. Thanks to free veterinary services provided by USDA veterinarians and low cost vaccines, tribal ranchers saved approximately $10 per head on Brucellosis vaccinations x 51 heifers equals a savings of $510. In addition, a per hour veterinarian labor charge of $100 per hour for the five hour clinic equates to $500 for a total cost savings that day for tribal members of $1,110. Assisted rancher Freddie Holliday with information on agriculture loans for beginning ranchers. Freddie hopes to expand his herd if he can secure financing. In response to the Warm Springs tribal council emphasizing control of noxious weeds on the reservation, Dan Fagerlie, Washington State University FRTEP Project Director, Colville tribe and I organized and presented a noxious weed identification and sprayer calibration clinic. Five people attended the clinic to include Tribal Ag Department employees who received free training in weed identification and sprayer calibration. Respondents recorded a 73.3% increase in "good practices to effectively use minimal amounts of herbicide". A 107.7% increase in "understanding how to accurately calibrate your equipment" with participants actually practicing calibrating sprayers. A 58.8% increase in knowledge of "safe practices of pesticide use to minimize personal and environmental damage". A 66.7% increase in ability in "determining the correct time of control through knowledge and planning" Respondents recorded a 56.2% increase in ability to "identify target weeds and native look-alikes at different stages". In addition, the Warm Springs tribe received $1,300 worth of educational signs and posters that portray pictures of the noxious weeds, how to identify them and contact information for weed control. A USDA-APHIS PPQ 10007 TWISP grant secured by Dan paid for the educational signs and the cost of the clinic. Several weeks later the Warm Springs Range and Ag department employees stopped by and thanked us for the educational signs. I collaborated with USDA-APHIS veterinarians to organize a horse vaccination clinic and Coggins testing. Thirty-four horses were tested for Equine Infectious Anemia with the Coggins test. An additional 30 horses were given annual vaccinations and de-wormer. Thanks to USDA-APHIS providing free veterinarian services and a discounted rate for the Coggins test, tribal members only paid $11 for the Coggins test. This equates to a savings of $110 per horse. OSU Extension has averaged 30 horses tested each year for a total savings of $3,300 per year. There were 15 people in attendance of which eight responded to a post clinic survey. On a scale of one (low) to ten (high) all respondents recorded a ten in response to the question, "how helpful is this workshop to you?" In response to the question, "does this vaccination clinic save you money", all eight recorded a response of ten (high). A main goal of the Warm Springs "Food Focus" program is to teach gardening skills and how to grow food for their families. In 2017-2018, I taught a series of gardening classes: Fruit Trees & Fall Gardening, Cool Season Gardening, Gardening 101, and Fruit Tree Production. Classes averaged eight tribal members in attendance who were interested in gardening and growing food for their families. Healthy eating was promoted with a healthy lunch served, thanks to my OSU Snap-Ed Extension colleagues Sara Rogers and Rosanna Sanders. One tribal member mentioned how lucky Warm Springs was to have the FRTEP program on the reservation. Goal #3 - Native American food systems In order to provide some fresh vegetables to the High Lokee Elder retirement center, I collaborated with Dustin Seylor, Warm Springs Community Action Team, to fix existing raised beds and build new ones at High Lokee Elder retirement center. I purchased soil, vegetables and herb plants, to plant in the rebuilt raised beds. Thanks to this garden activity, eight seniors had access to some fresh vegetables and herbs. OSU Extension set up a booth at the Pi-Um-Sha Health Fair and did garden and nutrition education activities teaching about healthy eating. Dustin and I built a raised garden bed for the Warm Springs Community Center to provide vegetables for the Center and to promote gardening and healthy eating. I also pruned fruit trees and taught two employees how to prune fruit trees. A fruit loop tour was organized for Sept. 23, 2017. OSU provided a van and a driver along with OSU Staff as many tribal members do not drive. OSU also provided a free canning class the next day in order to preserve fruit purchased on the tour for the winter months and teach safe food preservation canning practices. Performed soil tests on garden developed by tribal member Howie Patt. Howie is raising a large garden and hopes to market produce at Warm Springs farmers market. Howie has regularly attended OSU garden classes in the last two years and is very happy we are holding the classes so he can start his own vegetable production business.
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