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Our work seeks to build organizational capacity and generate programs that nurture emerging Inter-tribal community leaders to develop the leadership skills and capacity necessary to strengthen local food systems.We accomplish our goals and visions with the support of our villages, communities, families, and youth in ways that honor the cultural ways and practices of our people. We organize and work directly with parents, elders, farmers, youth, traditional village leaders, school administrators, and tribal programs in order to build local capacity and improve livelihoods.
Our current projects include Indigenous Land Steward Fellowship, Farming and Traditional Foodways Workshop Series, Hopi Food and Farming Internship, Hopi Farmers Market and CSA, Hopi Herbarium Project, and the Hopi Tutskwa Regional Food Hub & Learning Center.
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LAND STEWARD FELLOWSHIP
The Hopi Tutskwa Indigenous Land Steward Fellowship is an opportunity for land-based practitioners to share their vision of land stewardship, to identify and invest in their continued land-based work, and to provide opportunities for fellows to strengthen their personal healing and wellbeing. This Fellowship is designed to support, uplift, and recognize visionary leaders who are actively engaged in generative land-based solutions within their communities. Our Program upholds Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture's values, including recognizing the interconnectedness of all living beings, continuing intergenerational practices to strengthen community while working together to reinforce Nami'nangwa and Sumi'nangwa, Hopi cultural values that promote cooperation, reciprocity, respect, resilience and kinship.Our first fellowship cohort includes Indigenous land stewards from the Hopi, Zuni Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo, Dińe, and Akimel O'odham/Piipash Nations. We believe that it is necessary to support emerging land stewards as a way to build a more just and equitable future. Our sessions guide land stewards in engaging with community driven solutions that center place-based learning to help land stewards nurture the ecosystems of the Southwest and foster deeper relationships with their sacred homelands. An important aspect of building kinship is rooted in reconnecting with Indigenous relatives in an immersive way within our collective tribal communities and ancestral homelands.
HOPI TUTSKWA REGIONAL FOOD HUB
The Hopi Tutskwa Regional Food Hub Facility is to be a functional coworking and meeting space, a community kitchen, passive solar greenhouse, and an outdoor gathering space. This space will promote and foster the development of emerging local food cooperative while increasing access to fresh and wholesome foods that will improve our community's nutrition, health, generate employment opportunities, and ultimately increase community self-reliance and self-efficiency. Through this proposed initiative, HTPI will increase it's capacity as an organization to better serve our community. In addition, the construction of a Community Kitchen will be available for public use that will enable local food processors to increase the number of products they can prepare, increase the local ingredients they buy, and increase access to traditional and healthy foods in a rural reservation community that has extremely limited food-buying options. The overarching goal of our initiative is to increase the availability and access of fresh and healthy food in the Hopi community through local food business development and entrepreneurship by developing a centralized Regional Food Hub.
Winona Tungovia
I worked with Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture on the restoration of our family bread oven. HTPI Has made an impact on me and my family by connecting and communicating the ways of bread oven restoration. The family was able to learn ways of continuing to keep tradition alive and work together to get a project completed. HTPI makes a difference by connecting the community and bringing back the teaching of learning and helping one another.
Valarie Nuvayestewa
HTPI helped our to teach our family how to care for our family orchard. Reviving the orchard made me grateful and I took interest in becoming more involved with HTPI. With the resources that Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute provide's, we are hoping that our people will begin again to become inspired to learn how to adapt and grow our foods in this climate. HTPI is a resource on Hopi, for Hopi, to help our people to do just that. I'm grateful to HTPI for allowing me to be a part of their work. Kuna'a!