A beadwork image of a rabbit, corn, fish, and strawberries. "Food is Our Medicine: Sign up today!"
Today is the last day to register for the 2025-26 Food is Our Medicine animated learning journey, beginning this week! #FoodisOurMedicine showcases the importance of #IndigenousFoodways in #healthcare for Truth & Reconciliation and improved healing for us all.
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White text on a maroon background with stylized beadwork of rabbits, fish, and corn: "When we understand the relationships between food, the land, and culture, we recognize that food is fundamental to our well-being. Food is medicine. Yet, Indigenous knowledge and foods are all too often missing from health care settings across Canada. It's time for that to change." - Nourish
Nourish invites #healthcare organizations to commit to decolonizing menus & operations by joining the #FoodIsOurMedicine learning journey October 2025 to June 2026. Registration closes Oct. 24.
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Join Chef and Knowledge Keeper Jared @qwustenuxun.bsky.social Williams as he shares stories from his grandmother’s smokehouse, lessons from Elders, and teachings from the land and sea. 🐟
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The Noojmowin Teg Health Centre on Manitoulin Island incorporates local, traditional foods into hospital meals in line with the philosophy that good food is good medicine. 🌽 Healthy food connects people, families, and culture. 😍
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Listen to Tory Fisher share how food is medicine and why it is important for patients to have traditional foods while they are in care. Tory Fisher is a teacher and Anishinaabemowin language keeper of Nbisiing Nishnaabek (Nipissing First Nation). #FoodisOurMedicine
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"What I love about #FoodisOurMedicine is it's rooted in food. And food is a connector and food is foundational. We speak often of food as a pathway to Reconciliation. It can bring people together to have conversations that are necessary. It's a great add-on to other learnings." 🍓🐟
- Kelly Gordon
"Yes, you can get taught, yes you can see a video here and there, but to be able to ask the people next to you how they learn and how they go through things and what a good feeling means - it is a safe space and I really appreciate that part."
- Maurice Mathieu
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"2025 is the 10th anniversary of the TRC and to date we're only at 7 Calls to Action we can say we've responded to. That's a lot of work that lays ahead of us. #FoodisOurMedicine gives you that knowledge to bring into your work."
- Kelly Gordon
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"I would watch a video, then I would take in that info, then I would research that info, and all of a sudden it was 2 hours later. It was always the rabbit holes. The learning isn't just in FIOM, its the journey of everything that it starts." 🐇
- Maurice Mathieu
#FoodisOurMedicine
"Your brain doesn't change until your heart does. Your heart doesn't change until you realize that you can see from many different points of view at the same time."
- Kitty Lickers ❤️
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" #FoodisOurMedicine is about bringing us all together, creating connection, and bringing food together on the tray in a way that it won't just matter to them, the patient, but it will matter to you."
- Kitty Lickers
#IndigenousFoodways #healthcare #food #NourishLeadership
Gaining confidence and establishing connections can feel really valuable:
"Encouragement is exactly what you need. This network of people is one that are having the same challenges and learnings that you are."
- Maurice Mathieu
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" #FoodIsOurMedicine is important because there are things you are going to learn about, see, hear, and feel that are going to change you. We need to change to embrace the knowledge that is important. At the end of the day, it's putting food in front of people that matters."
- Kitty Lickers
And we're off! 🍲
" #FoodisOurMedicine (FIOM) is a really integral part of the work we're doing at Nourish, which is to move food to a more central place in health and healing. FIOM is a journey of learning, unlearning, and learning some more."
- Nourish co-ED, @hayleylapalme.bsky.social
Why does hospital food matter for Truth & Reconciliation with Indigenous communities? How can health care institutions use their influence to create change? Nourish explains food's important role in decolonizing institutions. 🌽🐟 #FoodisOurMedicine #NourishLeadership www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUai...
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Nourish’s 'Food is Our Medicine' guides health care providers on the importance of including culturally mindful food choices and Indigenous foodways into menus as a way to advance Truth & Reconciliation. Register to start in February 2025.
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I've been stress eating all week and will likely dive deep into the comfort food zone this weekend. Thanks for posting your yumalicious recipes. 😋
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