Nourish sees a distinction between industrial farming production and land-based, reciprocal ones. This is a conversation Nourish wants to bring with EAT-Lancet: showcasing forward Indigenous leadership on planetary health diets.

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#IndigenousFoodways

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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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November is #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, and we’re starting it off by spotlighting a few of the traditional #IndigenousFoodways that #GMOs have put at risk.

Know of other Native foods or seeds we should highlight this month? Share them with us here! 💭 🌽

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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#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Nutrition #Food

Why Traditional Foods Matter: A Conversation With Qwustenuxun | Skipper Otto Join renowned Indigenous Chef and Knowledge Keeper Jared Qwustenuxun Williams as he shares stories and teachings from the land and sea.

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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#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FoodIsOurMedicine

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Register for the Food is Our Medicine Learning Journey! Nourish invites #healthcare to commit to decolonizing menus & operations - join this transformative journey to create a more equitable & nourishing world.

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#IndigenousFoodways #TruthandReconciliation

A maroon background with a photo of Margaret Edgars. Margaret Edgars Reconciliation Award. To honour those advancing Truth and Reconciliation in health care through food with heart, humility, and respect.

Nourish's Margaret Edgars Award honours those advancing #TruthandReconciliation, uplifting #IndigenousFoodways in #healthcare through food with heart, humility, and respect. 💜

Nominations open until September 28, 2025.

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#NourishLeadership #NourishAwards

A group of people - members of Nourish's session on 100 Million Better Bites - stand in a classroom setting in front of a green chalkboard and projector screen. On a table in front of them is a plate of food (salmon, seafood, and berries laid over cedar), offered in ceremony.

This week @victoriaforum.bsky.social our sessions explored what a #regenerative food culture could look like for #healthcare & for Canada. We are on the road to #100MillionBetterBites 🍏 Gratitude to our hosts and guests 💜

#NourishLeadership #VictoriaForum #DeliciousClimateAction #IndigenousFoodways

A person brings a large tray of sliced, vegetables to a table.

A view of the Grand River and its shoreline, dotted with green trees and a blue sky.

A braid of sweetgrass on a wood table next to a bowl of sliced oranges.

A white plate of food on a royal blue tablecloth: wild rice, assorted vegetables including squash, corn, and beans (the Three Sisters), and meat with a berry sauce on top.

On Friday, Nourish's @amyjoyford.bsky.social spent the day in community learning about #Haudenosaunee foods on the Grand River. Chef Aicha Smith-Belghaba, Head Chef at Esha's Eats, led a hands-on teaching including sweetgrass, berries, and the three sisters. 🍓

#IndigenousFoodways #NourishLeadership

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Learn about the connection between food, culture, health, and healing. This webinar will explore Indigenous food systems, culturally-rooted healing, & how #IndigenousFoodways align with nutrition and public health goals.

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First Nations farmers are growing opportunity and better food for all Expanding opportunities for First Nations farmers would be an economic boon for the entire country

“[Indigenous people] are everywhere you need food. And we’re young and we’re unemployed and we want to do this in the hundreds of thousands,” Mr. Beaton says. “This is part of our culture, part of our spirit, part of our ancestry.” 🌱

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodways

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Traditional foods chef from Cowichan shows off smokehouse to provincial officials Indigenous Food Security and Sovereignty Program provided $80,000 grant

Addressing regulatory barriers is key to enabling #IndigenousFoodways. 🐟

"If we can navigate regulations here & create a way ahead then our youth can learn this skill & create a value added seafood product." - @qwustenuxun.bsky.social

#IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FoodSystems

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A white report cover with red, yellow, and teal lines intersecting to form a star, in front of a light beige circle. The title says 'Gifts from our Relations: Indigenous Original Foods Guide.' Report by the National Indigenous Diabetes Association.

By the National Indigenous Diabetes Association, 'Gifts from our Relations' honours 18 foods important to Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island. 🍓🐢

"Eating our ancestral food helps to keep our culture alive."

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#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Nutrition

Indigenous Wellness Centre opens at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital | Globalnews.ca Thanks to The Krawcyzky Family Foundation, a transformed space at St. Michael's Hospital in downtown Toronto is set to become a new Indigenous Wellness Centre.

New Indigenous Wellness Centre opens @unityhealthto.bsky.social with funding from the Krawczyk Family Foundation. 👏 Weaving #IndigenousFoodways into #healthcare supports Truth & Reconciliation and improved healing for us all. 🍓

#IndigenousHealth #Reconciliation #Nutrition

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GNWT outlines 13 steps to improve healthcare for Indigenous residents A new cultural safety report from the NWT's health authority maps out 13 overarching action items to improve healthcare for Indigenous residents.

“The report recommends more work to incorporate traditional foods, not only because they’re integral to the cultural identity of Indigenous patients, but because studies have shown they’re nutrient-dense & minimally processed.” 🍲 #IndigenousFoodways #CountryFoods #Nutrition

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Pow Wow Nutrition Subsidy poster.

Chippewas of the Thames launch a #PowWow #Nutrition Subsidy: “All of the traditional foods that we have eaten, because they were from the land and in their whole form, were pretty healthy.” 🫘🍓🐟

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #PowWowNutrition #Food #WholeFoods

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“Indigenous foods—which tend to be whole and healthy with an emphasis on lean proteins and fruits and vegetables—are right in line with what we all need to eat to reduce health challenges like heart disease and diabetes.” 🙌 🌽🫘🐟@thesiouxchef.bsky.social #IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty

It’s here: 15,000 years of culinary wisdom on your plate. "The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook"
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#texasmexican #indigenousfoodways #plantbasedheritage #plantbasedfood #nativeamericanfood

Learn more about Kathy Loon and her work at Meno Ya Win Health Centre in the Nourish short documentary, Michim. 🎬

#IndigenousHealth #IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Michim

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First Nations health centre, chef, create hospital menus to heal body and spirit at Manitoulin Health Centre | CBC News A program to nourish the hearts and souls, as well as the bodies of patients at the Mindemoya and Little Current sites of the Manitoulin Health Centre is finding success.

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. 😍

#FoodisOurMedicine #IndigenousFoodways #healthcare

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Camas & salmon berry are among the plants being nurtured at a new nursery on Quw'utsun (Cowichan) territory. The project emphasizes culturally significant foods & plants, contributing to #foodsecurity. @qwustenuxun.bsky.social

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#IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodWays

A light beige cover page with a large orange circle and a small yellow circle in the top right corner. The large orange circle contains the silhouette of a moose. The top left corner has the Nourish logo. The bottom left corner says 'Nourish Anchor Cohort'. The main text is large and covers most of the bottom half of the page - it reads: Nourishing Conditions for Change Stewardship and Community Care: A Country Foods Journey through Newfoundland and Labrador

Last year, local hunter Denley Jacque was connected with Dana Marshall, Nourish Project Lead @foodfirstnl.ca about hunting a charitable moose license.

Read this powerful story about the role of #countryfoods in community, health, healing, and wellbeing. 👉 shorturl.at/aBvdn #IndigenousFoodways

Michigan tribes and officials are working to restore manoomin (wild rice) with a 122-page plan combining Indigenous knowledge and conservation strategies. The effort follows Michigan’s 2023 recognition of manoomin as the state’s native grain. 🌾 #WildRice #IndigenousFoodways #ClimateAction

The MKO Harvester Program presents the “Revitalizing our Roots” Food & Medicine Gathering to celebrate, preserve, and revitalize Indigenous knowledge on traditional foods and medicines.

📍 Winnipeg (April 29-May 1): shorturl.at/2y86B

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty

Two bamboo poles demarcate a newly planted baby tree that currently looks like a 4 foot tall stick. The base of the tree is heavily mulched with wood chips.

What currently looks like a bare stick is a newly transplanted pawpaw tree (Asimina triloba), one of several we received as a surprise donation & had to get in the ground today. I've got my fingers crossed that they survive. #IndigenousFoodways #CommunityOrchard #NativeTrees

"We need to come to a place where we stop describing the problem, and we start giving a tangible path forward." - Dr. Joseph LeBlanc

From our latest field scan: "The integral takeaway is that Indigenous harvesters, hunters and cooks are just as concerned with wellbeing of the ecosystem and ensuring food is safe to eat as regulators are, only they are speaking different languages." 🍓 #IndigenousFoodways shorturl.at/JKCPh

Indigenous foods are native to where they are sourced and used pre-contact. "By seeking out and using Indigenous foods we support the restoration of the food systems that produce them, which has the added effect of supporting Indigenous language and culture." #IndigenousFoodways shorturl.at/JKCPh

A summary of the #IndigenousFoodways field scan is also available in French. / Un résumé de cette étude de terrain sur les modes d'alimentation autochtones est également disponible en français: shorturl.at/TNon0

In Nourish's new field scan, authors Jared Qwustenuxun Williams & Fiona Devereaux explore the interconnected barriers that continue to obstruct widespread uptake of Indigenous foodways - and the strategies needed to overcome those barriers. 🫎🌱 #IndigenousFoodways #Reconciliation shorturl.at/JKCPh

"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 ❤️
#FoodisOurMedicine #NourishLeadership #healthcare #IndigenousFoodways