Bad River Food Sovereignty

06/02/2026

New date! Join us for our Spring Harvest Feast this Sunday, June 7th at the Wake House from 11:30 - 2pm 💛

06/01/2026

We’d love some volunteers to help pick chamomile flowers at Food Sov 💛 let me know!

05/30/2026

All raised beds are filled with soil 💪🏽 we’re very thankful for Russ donating his time to Food Sov. He and Randy worked hard to get it done! Also, chi Miigwech to Roads dept for loaning us their dump truck.

Dirt is now available for tribal members! The pile near the Casino is first come first serve.

Happy gardening!

05/29/2026

Looking forward to this webinar. We will be planting Juneberries at Ursula’s Farm and we also have Juneberries, lovingly called Saskatoons, available for our plant giveaway (tomorrow/Saturday 10-2 at Housing) generously provided by UW-Extension! Miigwech! ❤️

Join the UW-Madison Indigenous Food Systems Project for our next webinar.

🌰 June 3 from 12-1 PM CST: Growing Honeyberries, Juneberries, and Hazelnuts on a Small Scale

Interested in growing honeyberries, Juneberries and hazelnuts in your garden or small farm but unsure where to start? Join Steffen Mirsky (UW Extension Emerging Crops Program Coordinator) to learn the fundamentals of perennial fruit and nut production. The session will then take a closer look at the unique considerations for these three emerging crops in Wisconsin. Topics will include site selection and preparation, cultivar selection, planting, management, and harvesting.

Register here: go.wisc.edu/indigenous-food-systems

05/28/2026

Good morning from the new Food Sov chickens ☀️

05/27/2026

In case you’re curious what over $1,300 of plants looks like!! Hausers grew us a variety of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, acorn squash, cabbage, broccoli, herbs, and flowers for our plant giveaway.

The money for these plants did not come from a grant. It came from program revenue and donations. Every bit counts and goes right back into the community.

We can’t wait to share these with you! 🪴

05/27/2026

Our Annual Plant Giveaway will be this Saturday at Housing from 10am - 2pm 🌱

05/27/2026

Unfortunately, we have to postpone our Spring Harvest Feast this Friday due to a funeral. Our condolences are with the family.

05/24/2026

Join us this coming Friday, the 29th, for our Spring Harvest Feast at the Wake House! Learn how to make maple sugar and herbal remedies starting at 4:30pm. There will be samples to take home! We’ll feast together at 5:30pm🌷

05/20/2026

Food Sovereignty Updates!

NEW BUILDING:
We finally got the keys to our new building 🥳 this move into our new building happened to fall on the busiest month of the year for us, so it’s been a slow process getting situated. We are so thankful for the strong guys that showed up to help move the big things in! Much appreciation to Eli, Russ, Linton, David, and Randy! 💪🏽

For our community: once we are more situated, we will hold a soft opening this summer for you to come see the new Food Sov building! Until then, please be patient with us. There are still a lot of things that need to happen regarding hook ups and making it ADA accessible.

SOIL:
We did get soil delivered again near the casino. We need to utilize the pile FIRST for filling the raised beds we have built and make sure we can fulfill soil needs for our home garden program BEFORE we open it up to the community. We do have extra though. Most likely soil will be available on a first come first serve basis in early June. We cannot do soil deliveries beyond those who got a raised bed from us this year. If you are interested in a raised garden bed, we can add you to our list for spring 2027 🌱

PLANT GIVE A WAY:
We will hold our annual plant giveaway at the end of this month. It will be Saturday, May 30th at Housing. Be on the lookout for the flyer soon 🪴

SPRING HARVEST FEAST:
A time to gather for celebrating and giving thanks to the bounty of wild harvested spring foods. Friday, May 29th at the Wake House. Flyer to come soon!

Happy Spring 💛🌷