Bad River Food Sovereignty

06/11/2026

We love feasting with you! Thank you to all who came to celebrate the bounty of our wild harvested and foraged Spring foods. Chef Pete cooked a delicious feast! Chi Miigwech! Some of our native, wild harvested foods we enjoyed which were all harvested from Bad River were:

🌱walleye
🌱smoked sturgeon
🌱smoked sucker
🌱wild turkey
🌱ramps
🌱fiddleheads
🌱dandelion greens
🌱manoomin
🌱maple syrup

Miigwech to our instructors Maria and JD for showing us how to make maple sugar and candies. Miigwech to Robert and Dale for the herbal medicine goodie bags and information on various plant medicines! Miigwech to David for sharing a fish cleaning demonstration with freshly caught Lake Superior trout. Miigwech to Bill Roundwind for giving the prayer.

We loved sharing in this meal and good time together. Now we look forward to summer and the bounty ahead!

06/06/2026

It was all smiles at our plant giveaway last weekend!! We hope everyone’s gardens are off to a great start 🌧️ and would love to see you at our Spring Harvest Feast this Sunday, the 7th! 🌸

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.