Progress 09/01/22 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Leech lake Tribal CollegeExtension & Community Education program focuses mainly on the communities of the Leech Lake reservation which covers 4 MN counties. Folksfrom outlying and neighboring communities are welcome to attend our teaching sessions and workshops. Targeted populations consist of those within the tribal lands of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and surrounding communities, whether they have a tribal affiliation or not. We believe that anyone looking to educate themselves and invest in learning and improving their community make our communities better. Changes/Problems:Staffing is difficult- -LLTCECE had 3 temporary emergency hires. None of them maintianed duties adequatelyin order to hire full time. -LLTCECE was to have 2 full time staff on board last fall. Human Resources is advertising in areas further awayto fill positions andrecruit. Space- -The LLTCECE does not have its own space for office, storage or to hold classes in. LLTC will be taking the space currently used back for academic classes. Spending- -LLTCECE was given an extension to spend remaining funds. Was granted more funding. Funds that were extended were being spent. New funding will need to be rebudgeted to fit objectives as welll as campus plan. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Earth oven and shelter training for 7 communtiy participants who organized workshop[ at LLTC an earth oven and shed build on campus Reiki Level 1 & 2 for 5 community members online Mindfullness yoga for educator 200 hour certification completed by 8 community participants How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Word of mouth is primary method. Sharing information on local tribal radio stations. LLTC socail edia and webpage, email list servs, local newspapers. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Provide a green house on campus that will have native plant seeds collected by college forestry and science program where they will be grown and distributed to community in an effort to replenish our forests This will also be used to start vegatable plants to distribute to local area gardeners. Raised gardens with benches at tribal elder living complex, along with window boxes made by men and women in tribal CD treatment facility 2 more earth ovens built and accessible to community members in 2 villages. Hig tunnel prepped with composted manure rotated for garlic planting Grow, pot and distribute ginger plants Teach class on making kombucha and switchel Immune boosting plant medicine classes. Wild rice harvesting and hand finishing workshops. PUtting rest of garden space to sleep Prep raised beds for next year gardens
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Leech LAke Tribal College Extension & Community Education has consistently engaged with tribal and non tribal folks from the immediate communty and surrounding area and towns in an effort to build relationships with other cultures. The relationships have built a strong respect and appreciation for our cultures of the area.LLTCECE continues to gain ground and make improvments to how we gain more access and understanding from the traditioanl way of life and how we carry it forward into our future in a sustainable and meaningful manner. LLTCECE has really put the community members first when creating learning spaces. Some of the workshops, event and most recentlearning opportunties have been: a cycle of star quilt making with such specific instruction that ones who never touched a sewing machine completed a beautiful quilt to be proud of.. Pollinator zoom workshops (3 in each cycle, with teaching on how to prep ground) 36 native plants provided to all who attended all 3 classes. Wednesday evening chair yoga small in person with zoom option Online dessert classes with an Indigenous focus monthly Indigenous and foraged food demo,sampling, recipeevents Family Fun Fairs promoting family time with activity booths (coloring station, make playdoh, fun picture booth/family photo booth, makeand take soup in a jar, etc) Moccasin retreats (weekend long workshops to focus 100% on moccasins and the teachings provided and shared) Garden planning events / seed sharing natural fiber weaving workshop retreats for parent & child teams (4 of these) Wrapped quill jewelry sets parent/child painting sessions Seed starting/tending and distribution Online creative gourds class on weekly basis for 2 months Financial literacy for families held in 4 communitites Earthen outdoor oven build Earth bag tiny house/shed build traditional regalia making classes Telling your story through painting Painted stones Plant medicine walks and medicine making classes. Baby sitter safe sitter training berry picking and harvesting jelly jam dry fruit workshops
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Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Leech Lake Tribal College Extension and Community Education (LLTCECE) is committed to all communities of the Leech Lake Reservation and surrounding area. LLTCECE provides an array of educational opportunities that are usually open to those 13 years of age and above all the way to elder status. The majority of the LLTCECE participants are from the immediate Cass Lake community and the surrounding reservation communities, which are statistically some of the most socially, economically, and educationally challenged in Minnesota. Efforts focus on project goals of community empowerment and wellness, food security, and the environment. LLTCECE provides educational engagement opportunities that have positively affected food security, community and household agriculture, traditional Anishinaabe food production/resource gathering, traditional arts (and artisan work), as well as other health and wellness provisions. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?LLTCECE held Grant writing workshops and provided opportunity for communtiy to attend virtually when possible andto train community participants interested in applying for a 501c3 status. Small groupsattended tosearch grants, and write proposals that their group fit eligibility criteria for. LLTCECE partners with the MN Indian Business Alliance and hosted a weekend long workshopto prepare local artist with websites to showcase their art, business cards, professional photos, how to market themselves and their art. Trained and certified Reiki providers level I& II. these certificates enable them to practice reiki to individuals. They have been hired at wellness events and day long retreats to deomonstrate their skills. Trained and certified Emergency medical personnal who drive ambulances on and off the reservation. 4 new Master gardeners course completed Internships created with tribal radio station, 2 LLTC students 4/2023-9/2023. Both were hired by station fulltime. Will be placing more intern/trainees at that location. Internship for 2 PSEO students with tribal and city Animal Control officer /Dog pound animal shelter 04/2023-9/2023. Both hired by city. Bothworking with traveling veterinary clinics that serve several tribal communties in MN. One has applied to Veterinary Program in AZ. Will continue to partner with this program as they also have a dog handler on staff now. to work with intern/trainees How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Some of the communities of the Leech Lake Reservation are 40+ miles away from the LLTC campus and since most of the classes are held on campus many folks are unable to participate mainly due to lack of reliable transportation, especially in colder months. LLTCECEcontinues to makeit a priority to reach 4-5 outlying communities on a monthly basis and rotate through. LLTCECE has begun to support locals in each village to begin organizing within their villages. LLTCECE has provided beads, threads, fabrics, ribbons, leathers, paints/canvases laundry soak making supplies so that members come together on a regular basis. Outreach included arranging for community centers to host Do It Yourself Saturdays, Friday Fun Days for kids during summer months. Spring time focuses on seeds, gardens, planting. starting plants and signing folks up for tilling or no till services. LLTCECE Coordinator attendsLocal community meetings to gather feedback and interest of events.Participatnsbegan attending other area events. One tribal village began their own laundry soap making club and began delivering soap to elders in their village. Another tribal village began their own small garden and held a harvest feast together. 3 outer villages have begun to host craft days for families on a monthly basis. LLTCECE has provided a few supplies but it is mostly donated by village members What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The following is a list of the classes, events, gatherings that were held; the experiences provided to the community and accessibilitysurely surpassed the goals that were planned. *denotes the class was held more than once (in as many outer lying communities as possible). Men As Peacemakers Awareness, Sex Trafficking Awareness, Beading*, edible berries and flowers (historical gathering sites), making jams & jellys*, Basketry* (birch bark, willow, black ash, reeds- utilitariananddecoration) Moccasin making for babies*, Moccasin making for adults, Ribbon Skirts*, Star Quilts*, Traditional Storytelling/Legends, Anishinaabe Star Knowledge and how to navigate (Ojibwe names, importance of each celestial body), Wild Food foraging/Plant Identification and Usage (ojibwe names)*, Plant walks guided by ethno botanists*, Birch bark bird houses, Bird watching, LLTCECE established apollinator garden of native plants on the LLTC campus and inside the communtiy garden, Eating from the wild, foraging for foodand preserving*, Snaring rabbits and how to process/cooking/preserve, Pounding corn, wild rice, acorn & hazelnut into flour for use/preservation, Upcycled wool mittens*, Make hand drums, Sweet grass baskets*, Seed saving from the community garden/preserving/storing, seed give aways and sharing*, making feast bags and how to use, Home made sugar free condiments from the garden, traditional moccasin game teachings and play*, Maple syrup camp visits / making maple candy and sugar, porcupine quill wrapped jewelry and natural coloring with plants and food*, garden mapping, black dirt give away, soil health*, wild rice finishing demos*, dance regalia for youth boys & girls, making adirondack garden chairs*, medicine balms and salves from herbal community garden*, Relearning and re establishing the trade and barter system, Oil Painting 101*, build 3 produce shelf units for road side produce station, tending campus orchard training with Master Gardener LLTCECE hired 1 part time experieinced garden helper 6/18-10/18. A local PSEO high schoolstudent was hired6/19-9/19 to assist with seed starting, high tunnel planting, garden upkeep and harvesting. Thisyouth supervised the produce station on campusand offered free garden produce, fruits from area orchards, jams, jelliesand canned goods (vegatables and wild game/fish) to interested. It is the hope of LLTCECE to impliment more community gardens in the coming year and to have summer youthtend those gardens in their own communties and gather more interest of youth. A LL program built small raised beds and planted 2-3 vegetable plants in each for villae youth to tend. LLTCECE showed youth how to save the seeds from plants they went to seed and how to plant them to continue growing food. Many families who reside in tribal housing elected to have container gardens, pallet herb gardens, tires to grow tomatos in. A green house was built from repurposed lumber. Thegreen house will beused to start seeds, the starter plants were and will begiven out to local communtiy gardeners and gardens. The concrete slab that held green house became space to build an earthen clay tiny house and earthen oven. This will be completed and will host pizza maing events using vegetables from high tunnel on campus. Community will be able to sign out the use of the oven and space for family gatherings.
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Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:Community members who identify as being from various backgrounds and ethnicities within the Leech Lake Reservation. Area neighbors who have lived on and/or near tribal communities and have consistent involvement with them. LLTC students and families, campus staff and faculty. LLTC Extension believes that anyone looking to educate themselves and invest in learning and improving their community makes our communities better and more grounded for all. Changes/Problems:A major hurdle has been that the program has never been adequatly staffed. With only one person doing all aspects ofthe program is is difficult to do all of wonderful things that people are requesting of the program. the hiring of more staff is going to be a huge inprovement for the program. A hardship with the garden has been the water supply to the garden is controlle dby a building the extension program does not have access to which means that garden could go days with out being watered. having the gardens own water supply will ensure the plants are watered consistently. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Reiki I & II April 2023 in planning Emergency medical technician Baby sitter safety Yoga How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Everything is advertised and shared via mass emails, LLTC web page, social media pages, local monitors that allow LLTC to advertise, campus monitors, Local Councils,flyer distribution, tribal radio station. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?LLTCECE will be hiring 3 new full time positions and 3 temporary postions with focusin the areas of Food/Gardening, Ojibwe language/Culture and Health and Wellness. Langauge of the Heart parenting program which will also train parents who complete it to become parenting coaches in their communities Weekly STEM club and monthly for families Soil health and how to build it up again By parterning with Green FootPrint Farm (GFF) there will be paid interns/trainees who will work in areas of livestock (chickens, pigs, goats, cows) While others work in establishing GFFs Korean Natural Farming technique and composting, garden areas. These interns will be encouaged the following year to apply for the Teen Ag Crew Internship. Local farmers will provide guidance to area youth groups to do "a day onthe farm" each week/weekend to give youth and families a taste of farm life and to understand and appreciate it. this is being done to recogonize the disappearing farmland and how we can still maintain that green space. Youth leadership conference (2) Feb and april 2023 Father and SOn art retreats Writing retreats with published indigenous authors Womens hide tanning camps (4) Fitness/Exercise options in all Leech lake communites at the communtiy centers with wellness trainers to oversee routines and health Creation of training opportunities which will lead to full time employment in the areas of Tribal Historical preservation (3 positions) Green Foot Print Farm Purchase of set up of 4 greenhouses that will be tended and supervised, new gardens will be situated along witht he greenhouses. Training to build cob/mud ovens, tiny homes and outdoor showers. Those who complete these will be hired by a community group to lead the build of their traditioanl drum round house for ceremony and drum feasts. Traditional methods of making Ojibwe pucker toe moccasins. Partner ing with local farm to grow crops of grapes, cran berries and plms. These will be tranplanted in yards of people who will tend tot hem and utilize their food as well as share with others. THe garden will have its own water source. the itrrigation of the garden area will be controlled by Extension staff.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
LLTCECE servestheLeech Lake reservation, and welcomes surrounding cities and towns,as well asneighboring tribal communities of Red Lake and White Earth. LLTCEC has continued to providea wide variety of workshops thatengage tribal residents while also attractingnon-tribal community members. These relationships have helped tobuildawareness of the Ojibwe culture and sharing one anotherscultural practices. Itis now common practice for indigenous and non-indigenous artists and crafting folk across Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota to contact LLTCECE with expressed interest in providing a workshop of their talents to this area. LLTCECE collaborates with a variety of tribal and non-tribal programs and organizations to educate community on the many health and nutritional benefits of growing and eating traditional food similar to what would have been planted in the gardens of our ancestors. These collaborations have produced a garden space: a 20X70 high tunnel, 6 raised beds on campus and10 in area community members space and community gardens, 18grafted apple trees, 14native pollinator habitats of various sizes, protected spaces of wild raspberry bushes, pinch cherry trees, chokecherry trees, and wild grape bushes, 6 potato fences, 10traditional 3 sister mounds, a 10X12 greenhouse built from repurposed materials, a 3 section compost bin, 10 tomato tire gardens. LLTCECE operated an above ground drip irrigation system 2016-2021. LLTCECEprovides the following to anyone who wishes to plant a garden: Heirloom seeds/starter plants Saved seeds from harvest- with workshops teaching others how to save seeds and store Black dirt-available to anyone who wishes to haul themselves Loaned out garden tools Garden tilling services Raised bed building community events (participants make their own raised beds) There are a number of ongoing workshops consistently offered since 2016: Ojibwe language game day (using cheat sheets of Ojibwe to play Uno, Cribbage, Go Fish) Beading (peyote stitch, applique, jewelry, brick) Sewing of quilts (working through 3 levels of difficulty) Ojibwe dance regalia Ribbon skirts and ribbon shirts Moccasin making (baby - adult sizes) Herbal/Natural plant medicines Winter storytelling Processing of deer hides Porcupine quill working workshops Survival techniques (navigation, tracking, fire building, shelter building, foraging food) Indigenous cooking Food preservation (canning, drying) Snaring cleaning and preparing rabbits to eat-weaving rabbit fur blankets Basketry workshops (birch bark, sweet grass) Youth culinary workshops-then working alongside a trained chef at his catered events off site STEM Saturdayfor youth As well as conferences and weekend long events: Gathering of Gatherers (one weekend in May) 2017-2021 (via zoom) Planning May 2023 Wild Food Weekend (Spring/Summer) 2018-2022 Self-Care Saturdays (3rd Saturday each month 10a-5p) 2016-2020, July-present2022 Open Craft (last Sunday each month)2016-2020 July 2022-present)
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Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience is the community membersof the Leech Lake Reservation, whether they are indigenous or not. Thisincludethe students and their families. Changes/Problems:LLTC campus, area schools and programswere allclosed due to covid around March 2020. Staff including myself worked from home and began communicating and holding online workshops.We returned to campus full time July 2021. For the gardening portion the garden on campus was not able to be done due to the water comes from a building that was not accessible. This worker built a small green house and shelving on personel property and distributed plants and garden needs to community by arranging road side pick ups. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The program recruited participants to attend the following trainings (online and in person) Reiki level 1 & 2 in person for 6 people to be certified Emergency Medical Technicians 10 spots paid for as well as books. 6 completed the training but did not pass tests, 3 people completed and passed tests (the 3 were all under 25yrs old) How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Notice of events workshops classes are sent via email, various tribal and community programs, on the LLTC webpage and facebook events page. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to meet with local tribal program to partner with in establishing a farm to growblueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. Continue hosting traditional medicine classes and share plant knowledge. Gardening program is growing as 4 local particpants are se tto train as master gardeners in January 2022. The programs stakeholders committee intends to gain momentum and recruit more local members who will share their ideas and knowledge around wild foods and gardening, food preservation and building a root cellar for food storage.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Due to covid restrictions and the campus being totally closed the Extension program was able to hold several workshops online via zoom. During those workshops supplies were ordered and seperated into kits and mailed to registered participants. For the gardening portion local gardeners were allocated funds that allowed community members to place orders and pick up seds, garden supplies and starter plants. the LLTC provided black dirt, and starter plants as well. Garden meetings were held via zoom to discuss how gardens were going and again during harvesting. the zoom meets also created another means for particpants from further areas to participante and build support networks.
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Progress 09/01/19 to 08/31/20
Outputs
Target Audience:LLTC Extension and Community Education classes were delivered to all communitites/villages/housing areas of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. There are community centers where events/classes were held in 10of the housing areas. Classes were also held in partnership with other organizations from neighboring towns and cities, that are located within the boundaries of the Leech Lake Reservation(Cass, Itsaca, Beltrami and Hubbard counties). Participants came from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds while the majority identify as native american. Changes/Problems:The current PI is directly involved with the program. This person was not made aware of the goals or guidelines in prior years. This person is also involved in the Leech Lake community and area 24/7/365. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Presenters in the classes in outlying villages will be paired with 1-3 youth of the same area in order to preserve the knoweldge and teachings being given. Mentor / mentee relationships are solidified with every contact. These teachers are refered to as Master artists and wokr to maintian relationships with their mentees and apprentices. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?To collect documentation and provide a booklet of the medicinalplants and their uses. Current and past students of the college, the employees and the Dept of Natural resources divisionand local high school science students will be the driving force. This program will partner with other organizations.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The events held have been inclusive and accepts participants from all cultures and races. The only requirement is that folks all come with an open mind and to trulylearn (no matter race). The second part of learning is always stressed and that is that "it is not your until you give it away" meaning those who come to learn will not remember or retain the information until they teach someone else be it their spouse, sibling, child or neighbor. Seasonal activities have included wild rice gathering, and demonstrations of finsihing by machine and by hand. Samples of finished product is distributed to those hwo have helped. Local maple sugar camps have been identified and community members are able to visit and learn a variety of methods as they get hands on experieince in the operations and processes. This is helpful because everyone does things different anddifferent villages have different teachings that go with there environment and history. Youth have been contracted with to assist program coordinator with planting starter plants in the early spring. The ones who want to continue are able to work through the summer and tend the plants and garden. They are proud to be able to share what they harvest with their families and neighbors. Moregardens are being plantedin yards and office space. The program has been able to increase the sharing of seeds. The program only purchases heirloom and non GMO plants and seeds. There is a table of seeds at every event and class for participnats to take in order to increase community gardens and healthy eating of what we grow ourselves. SInce March 2020 communication and classes are done via zoom, or telephone. Videos are being created to share with others. KIts are sent to participants who wish to learn a specific craft.
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Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:Leech Lake Tribal College Extension and Community Education (LLTCECE)is committed to all communities of the Leech Lake Reservation and suurounding area. LLTCECE provides an array of educational opportunities that open to mainly those 13 years of age and above. The majority of theLLTCECE participantsare from the immediate Cass Lake communityand the surrounding reservation communities, which are statistically some of the most socially, economically, and educationally challenged in the state. Efforts focus on project goalsof community wellness, food security, and the environment. LLTCECE provides educational engagement opportunities thathave positively affected food security, community and household agriculture, traditional Anishinaabe food production/resource gathering, traditional arts (and artisan work), as well as other health and wellness provisions. Changes/Problems:The LLTCECE and this reporter is the only staff that makes up the LLTCECE program. The limited and part time help of the seasonal worker and various students who can be persuaded to work a weekend or two helps. The garden had a few issues with animals getting into it. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project provided several opportunities for community participants to become self sufficient, to understand and reclaim their right to hunt, gather and fish and all of the traditional aspects that accompany those right. Several found those same opportunties in the community garden and/or the classes. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Whilesocial media is theprimary tool for sharing event information, the LLTCECECoordinator provides information on a greater scale viathe College's websiteand campus monitors, printed flyers, local radio announcements, and shared contacts. LLTCECE has strived tohold one (1) class in a outlying more remote communities/villages each month. The LLTCECE Coordinator has connected with many tribal communities and memebers in innovative ways to offer opportunity to those who would otherwise be unable to. By following traditional protocals the LLTCECE Coordinator has engaged with traditioanl elders to invite them to teach and share their knowledge. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?TheLLTCECE Coordinator will be hosting strategic planning sessions to better define the efforts of the project within the upcoming reporting period. LLTCECE has seen solid growth and has expanded class offerings and opportunities, but now it is time to call upon the ones who have been learning and for them to take their place (with support) as the new master artists and teachers that they are. I.e a new monthly session has been offered since 1/19 that promotes and area youth and supports them to teach others the craft that they are comfortable in or what they learned in the community garden as helpers. This encourages the youth to take on other leadership roles and positions in school and the community.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The following is a list of the classes, events, gatherings that were held this past year. *denotes this was held more than once. Men As Peacemakers Awareness, Sex Trafficking Awareness, Beading*, Making jams & jellys (how to preserve)*, Basketry*, Moccasin making for babies*, Moccasin making for adults, Ribbon Skirts*, Star Quilts, Traditional Storytelling/Legends, Anishinaabe Star Knowledge and how to navigate (Ojibwe names, importance of each celestial body), Traditional plant teachings*, Wild Food foraging/Plant Identification and Usage (ojibwe names)*, Birch bark bird houses, Bird watching, Establishment of pollinator gardens (native plants), Eating from the wild (and preserving)*, Snaring rabbits and how to process/cooking/preserve, Pounding corn, wild rice, acorn & hazelnut into flour for use/how to use/preserve, Upcycled wool mittens*, Make hand drums, Sweet grass baskets*, Seed saving from the community garden/preserving/storing, seed give aways and sharing*, making feast bags and how to use, Home made condiments from the garden, traditional moccasin game teachings and play*, Maple syrup camp visits/ making maple candy and sugar, making bean/veggie burger, porcupine quill wrapped jewelry and natural coloring with plants and food*, garden mapping, black dirt give away, soil health*, wild rice finishing demos*, dance regalia for youth boys & girls, making adirondack garden chairs*, medicine balms and salves from herbal community garden*, Relearning and re establishing the trade and barter system, Oil Painting 101*, build 3 produce shelf units for road side produce station. LLTCECE hired 1 part time garden helper in 2018 which ended in 10/18 and hired another 7/19-9/19 to assist in garden upkeep. This person will also man the produce station on campus to offer free garden produce, fruits from areaorchards, berry jams and canned goods (vegatables and wild game/fish). It is the hope of LLTCECE to impliment more community gardens in the coming yearand to have summer youth man those gardens in their own communties.
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Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:Leech Lake Tribal College Extension and Community Education (LLTCECE) is committed to all communities of the Leech Lake Reservation and surrounding area. LLTCECE provides an array of educational opportunities that are open to those 13 years of age and above to elder status. The majority of the LLTCECE participants are from the immediate Cass Lake community and the surrounding reservation communities, which are statistically some of the most socially, economically, and educationally challenged in the state. Efforts focus on project goals of community wellness, food security, and the environment. LLTCECE provides educational engagement opportunities that have positively affected food security, community and household agriculture, traditional Anishinaabe food production/resource gathering, traditional arts (and artisan work), as well as other health and wellness provisions. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Some of the communities of the Leech Lake Reservation are 40+ miles away from the LLTC campus and since most of the classes are held on campus many filks are unable to participate mainly due to lack of reliable transportation, especially in colder months. LLTCECE has made it a priority to reach outlying communities on a monthly basis for now and hopes to achieve bi-monthl contact in the coming year. Out reach included arranging for community centers to host Do It Yourself Saturdays which included DIY's of making laundry detergent, woolen dryer balls, infused oils of natural plants, hats/mittens, birch bark baskets, herbal cough syrups, bug repellents, lotion bars and soaps. In the spring and summer months most included seed sharing and demonstration how to save seeds from local gardens. LLTCECE Coordinator attended Local community meetings to gather feedback and interest of events. Communities were grateful and many began attended other area events. One tribal village began their own laundry soap making club and began delivering soap to elders in the village. Another tribal village began their own small garden and held a harvest feast together. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The following is a list of the classes, events, gatherings that were held this past year. *denotes this was held more than once. Men As Peacemakers Awareness, Sex Trafficking Awareness, Beading*, Showing participnats where to find a variety of local edible berries and flowers and making jams & jellys and preservation*, Basketry* (birch bark, willow, black ash, reeds some utilitarian some for decoration) Moccasin making for babies*, Moccasin making for adults, Ribbon Skirts*, Star Quilts, Traditional Storytelling/Legends, Anishinaabe Star Knowledge and how to navigate (Ojibwe names, importance of each celestial body), Traditional plant teachings*, Wild Food foraging/Plant Identification and Usage (ojibwe names)*, Plant walks guided by ethno botanists*, Birch bark bird houses, Bird watching, LLTCECE Establishment of pollinator garden of native plants on the lLTC campus and inside the communtiy garden, Eating from the wild, foraging for foodand preserving*, Snaring rabbits and how to process/cooking/preserve, Pounding corn, wild rice, acorn & hazelnut into flour for use/how to use/preserve, Upcycled wool mittens*, Make hand drums, Sweet grass baskets*, Seed saving from the community garden/preserving/storing, seed give aways and sharing*, making feast bags and how to use, Home made condiments from the garden, traditional moccasin game teachings and play*, Maple syrup camp visits / making maple candy and sugar, making bean/veggie burger, porcupine quill wrapped jewelry and natural coloring with plants and food*, garden mapping, black dirt give away, soil health*, wild rice finishing demos*, dance regalia for youth boys & girls, making adirondack garden chairs*, medicine balms and salves from herbal community garden*, Relearning and re establishing the trade and barter system, Oil Painting 101*, build 3 produce shelf units for road side produce station. LLTCECE hired 1 part time garden helper in 2018 which ended in 10/18 and hired another 7/19-9/19 to assist in garden upkeep. This person will also man the produce station on campus to offer free garden produce, fruits from area orchards, berry jams and canned goods (vegatables and wild game/fish). It is the hope of LLTCECE to impliment more community gardens in the coming year and to have summer youth man those gardens in their own communties. A repurposed green house was built and used to start seeds, the starter plants were given out to local communtiy gardeners and gardens.
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