Blog Category: Indigenous Land & Food

APRIL 28, 2025: ONLINE – Understanding Treaty Relationships in Your Farming Journey

Posted by Lourdes Still on April 23, 2025

It’s essential for all of us involved in agriculture to understand the Treaty relationships that shape the land we farm on. These relationships are foundational—not only to the histories and present-day realities of the places we farm—but also to how we imagine a just and regenerative future in agriculture. Join us for a powerful and grounding conversation with Amy Seesequasis, an Independent Treaty Relationship Consultant, as we explore what it means to live and work on Treaty land. Amy will guide us through the basics of Treaty history, Indigenous land stewardship, and how settlers and non-Indigenous people can honour and … Continue reading APRIL 28, 2025: ONLINE – Understanding Treaty Relationships in Your Farming Journey →

FILLED – JOB: REMOTE – Tea Creek Program Developer- Fundraiser

Posted by Michalina Hunter on April 10, 2025

This position has been filled. View more Farm Jobs and Internships on our Job Board Tea Creek Training and the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Association are seeking a Fundraiser! The Job: Work as a primary fundraiser for our two Indigenous led organizations, Tea Creek Training and the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Association Hours: Part-time- approximately 20 hours/week, year round Wage: We value program development and fundraising. There are two options, 1) on our payroll on our pay grid ($35+/hr), plus performance bonuses. Or, 2) negotiated contract rates. Expected compensation $35,000 – $57,000 Location: Remotely with site visits to Kitwanga, BC 2-4 times/year … Continue reading FILLED – JOB: REMOTE – Tea Creek Program Developer- Fundraiser →

JOB: Moberly Lake, BC – Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Manager with Klinse-za Cultural Society and Amisk Farm

Posted by Michalina Hunter on April 02, 2025

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Manager will work in collaboration with Klinse-za Cultural Society and Amisk Farm to oversee the day-to-day operations of the agricultural training program (I-FEAST). The program manager will also coordinate community programming centred around Indigenous food sovereignty and cultural revitalization. Amisk Farm is an Indigenous-owned and operated, small-scale farm located in Moberly Lake on Saulteau First Nations Reserve. Amisk Farm produces a wide variety of vegetable crops for no cost to Indigenous community members in the Moberly Lake area. This work is done in collaboration with Klinse-za Cultural Society, Tea Creek … Continue reading JOB: Moberly Lake, BC – Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Manager with Klinse-za Cultural Society and Amisk Farm →

APR 12-13, 2025: CAWSTON, BC – Work Party at Ntamtqen Community Garden & Food Hub

Posted by Michalina Hunter on February 25, 2025

Young Agrarians is excited for a third work party at Ntamtqen Community Garden and Food Hub -formerly the Lower Similkameen Community Food Hub, Farm and Garden! Come out to lend a hand with spring farm work and building infrastructure to grow Indigenous food sovereignty. Everyone is welcome to attend. There are a variety of tasks to do such as potting up and planting fruit trees, pruning, irrigation, greenhouse work, transplanting seedlings, helping in the kitchen and more. We can’t wait to gather with you and celebrate spring together! DATE: April 12-13, 2025. Join for the whole weekend or as much … Continue reading APR 12-13, 2025: CAWSTON, BC – Work Party at Ntamtqen Community Garden & Food Hub →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Hanna, AB – Hart Ranches

Posted by Steven Olsen on February 03, 2025

Are you passionate about regenerative agriculture, livestock care, and land stewardship? Hart Ranches in Hanna, Alberta, is offering a unique apprenticeship where you can gain hands-on experience on a 7,000-acre ranch while working alongside skilled mentors. About the Farm Hart Ranches is focused on regenerative ranching and conservation. Mike and Laura Hart, the ranch owners, are committed to healing their land, which was severely impacted by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. They are active members of the Chinook Applied Research Association (CARA), participating in workshops on topics like drought mitigation, soil health, and shelterbelt development. Their diversified operations include: … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Hanna, AB – Hart Ranches →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Smithers, BC – Lost Farm

Posted by Tessa Thompson on December 04, 2024

Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on not one but two farm businesses operating on the same beautiful land? Are you wanting to learn about vegetable AND herb production?! Lost Farm is offering an apprenticeship; join their team! About the Farm We are a small market garden nestled amidst remote wilderness of Northern BC. We are owned and operated by myself and my wife, Bethany Slaman. We have approximately 1 acre in cultivation sitting on a larger 70 acre parcel that is surrounded by forest, ridges, valleys, mountains and rivers. Located approximately 25 minutes driving from Smithers, … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Smithers, BC – Lost Farm →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Armstrong, BC – The Okanagan Honey Company

Posted by Tessa Thompson on December 02, 2024

ABOUT OKANAGAN HONEY CO Our farm is a bee breeding and honey producing farm in the Okanagan Valley. We raise and mate queen honey bees and spring nuclei for sale to various regions in BC and Alberta. We also produce a beautiful Okanagan wildflower honey each year in the later summer. The honey bee colonies are placed on 20 different locations around the region, with an emphasis on organic farms or areas full of wild flowers. Our home farmland itself was originally cleared in the early 1900’s by Doug’s great grandfather and great grandmother, who farmed and lived on the … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Armstrong, BC – The Okanagan Honey Company →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Rose Prairie, BC – Whiskey Creek Ranch

Posted by Tessa Thompson on December 02, 2024

Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on a regenerative, soon to be certified organic, mixed livestock farm? Are you wanting to learn about beef, hogs, layer hens, and honey production?! Whiskey Creek Ranch is offering an apprenticeship; join their team! About the Farm Located approximately 30 minutes north of Fort St. John, British Columbia and stewarded by first generation farmers Gaston and Michelle (and young family), Whiskey Creek Ranch is a mixed livestock farm raising grass-finished beef, pasture-raised pork, eggs, honey, and other specialty on-farm products in an organic, sustainable, and regenerative way for their community. Whiskey … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Rose Prairie, BC – Whiskey Creek Ranch →

Being open to being changed: Reflections on kinSHIFT’s Elements of Truth workshop

Posted by Melanie Walker on November 27, 2024

This is a guest blog post from Melanie Walker of Many Microbes Soil Lab located on the swiya of the shíshálh people. Melanie shares her experience taking kinSHIFT’s Elements of Truth: Before Reconciliation workshops. We recommend that all farmers take this essential training! As I joined the first session of the kinSHIFT’s Elements of Truth workshop, I was open to learning. I knew it would be a process of change. I think most people who grow food appreciate change: the cycle of a growing season, the transformation from seed to fruit, and of course the many times we have to modify … Continue reading Being open to being changed: Reflections on kinSHIFT’s Elements of Truth workshop →

Discussion Paper on Indigenous Food Sovereignty by Tea Creek

Posted by Michalina Hunter on November 21, 2024

Interested in Indigenous Food Sovereignty (IFS) in BC? This discussion paper by Tea Creek covers the agrarian heritage of First Nations, the importance of IFS and how to scale it up, and showcases 13 Indigenous food projects across the province. Supporting IFS benefits everyone by improving environmental, social, and economic outcomes, as well as fulfilling the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and other provincial and federal government commitments. Background This discussion paper was prepared by Tea Creek, an Indigenous-led, land-based, culturally-safe Indigenous food sovereignty initiative located in Gitxsan territory near Gitwangak, between the settler communities of … Continue reading Discussion Paper on Indigenous Food Sovereignty by Tea Creek →