Humboldt Food Policy Council

The Importance of Food Sovereignty Thursday, April 22, 3:00pm PT / 6:00 ET Post-Capitalism Conference - https://eventee.co/event/52739 This panel will examine ...what food sovereignty, specifically what Indigenous food sovereignty is and why food sovereignty is necessary to post-capitalism planning. See more

Have you heard the big news? Alexandre Family Farm was featured on the Today Show this morning! For those of you who missed the interview with Gadi Schwartz, yo...u can watch it directly by clicking this link. #alexandrefamilyfarm #regenerativeorganic #familyfarm #alwaysroaming #GrassFed #A2A2 #a2dairy

Non-Yurok Tribal members must have a Yurok fishing permit to lawfully harvest Pacific lamprey or eels from the stretch of the Klamath River that flows through t...he Yurok Reservation. The annual permit can be obtained at the Pem-mey and Pek-tah Fuel Marts between 9am to 6:30pm. The permitting system is one component of a long-term plan to preserve Pacific lamprey stocks for future generations. For additional information, please see the flyer below. See more

Now, there is growing momentum behind the Indigenous food sovereignty movement. Over the past few decades, Native American tribes in the U.S. have been fighting for the return of ancestral lands for access to traditional foodways through organizing and advocacy work, coalition building, and legal procedureand increasingly seeing success. In recent years, the Wiyot Tribe in Northern California secured ownership of its ancestral lands and is working to restore its marine habi...tats; the nearby Yurok Tribe fought for the removal of dams along the Klamath River and has plans to reconnect with salmon, its traditional food source; and the Quapaw Nation in Oklahoma has cleaned up contaminated land to make way for agriculture and cattle businesses. A big part of [land reclamation] is for food sovereignty, stressed Frankie Myers, vice chairman of the Yurok Tribe. We depend on the land to eat, to gain protein. It’s what our bodies were accustomed to, it’s what we as a people are accustomed toworking out in the landscape. It’s where we feel home. It’s good for our mental health. Oftentimes, folks have to be reminded that [food] is our original medicine.

Alexandre Family Farm wants to show that regenerative organic can be done at scale here in the U.S.and that too with dairy. Cows are not the cause of climate change. It’s the way we’ve farmed. But we’re here to show you that it can be done right, says Blake Alexandre cofounder of the California-based family operation