Nakani Native Program

🌿 Tend the Land, Share the Harvest!

Join us for a hands-on day with the Native Guild, tending wapato and other Native food plants at Beacon Food Forest. Participants will have the opportunity to see the preparation and cooking process and try wapato. Lunch provided!

📅 Sunday, September 20 | 11 AM–3 PM
📍 Entrance at S Dakota St. & 15th Ave. S.

No registration required—come lend a hand! Bring water and dress to get muddy; gloves will be available.

HAPPENING THIS SATURDAY!! 😁

In partnership with Agroforestry Northwest and Northwest Indian College, we invite you to a fun day of volunteering and land stewarding! During this event, we will be working to revitalize space on the NWIC Tulalip campus for a future food forest by removing invasive species, garden bed work, and more. This effort is all about bringing people together to steward the land and building long-term ecological and cultural resilience. Come learn about land stewarding and plant knowledge all while helping the community!

Event Details:
Date: September 5th
Time: 10 am - 2 pm
Location: Northwest Indian College - Tulalip Campus

What to bring: Dress for the weather and wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes! Tools, snacks, and beverages will be provided.
Bring a friend, family member, or neighbor - everyone is welcome!

RSVP / Learn More: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/volunteer-day-for-hedgerowfood-forest-tickets-1995981740115

We want to give a big thank you to everyone who attended our recent event, Sharing the Harvest - Community Peach Canning! At this event, we learned how to prepare, pack, and water-bath can peaches.

In partnership with Agroforestry Northwest and Northwest Indian College, we invite you to a fun day of volunteering and land stewarding! During this event, we will be working to revitalize space on the NWIC Tulalip campus for a future food forest by removing invasive species, garden bed work, and more. This effort is all about bringing people together to steward the land and building long-term ecological and cultural resilience. Come learn about land stewarding and plant knowledge all while helping the community!

Event Details:
Date: September 5th
Time: 10 am - 2 pm
Location: Northwest Indian College - Tulalip Campus

What to bring: Dress for the weather and wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes! Tools, snacks, and beverages will be provided.
Bring a friend, family member, or neighbor - everyone is welcome!

RSVP / Learn More: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/volunteer-day-for-hedgerowfood-forest-tickets-1995981740115

Mountain huckleberry season is here!! 💜🫐🏔️🔥

For countless generations, Indigenous peoples throughout the Northwest have followed the ripening berries into high-elevation ancestral gathering places.

Mountain huckleberries are a cultural keystone species, deeply connected to seasonal rounds, traditional foods, fire stewardship, and relationships with place that continue today. 🔥🌿

Our new handout shares a little about identification, gathering with care, cultural connections, and enjoying the harvest. 🫐

Artwork sketched and digitally refined by Linzie Crofoot (Tlingit/Colville).

Food is Medicine! Read on to learn how to make Fruit Juice Syrup 🍓🫐🍒

Join us for our upcoming event, Sharing the Harvest - Community Peach Canning Day! 🍑 At this event, we will learn how to prepare, pack, and water-bath can peaches!

Registration required, please register using the QR code in the post or the google form below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WRUCb4P5sDTO4APdZnFUT9D0zY0b0iZVjvYOGkZnu48/

We are excited to announce our monthly recipe sharing! We will be sharing recipes of traditional foods merged with modern living. Read on for why this is important, and for our first recipe - "Nettle Hazelnut Pesto!" 😄🥳🌿

Edit: 7/13
We wanted to clarify a few questions that came up in the comments about the artwork and creation of this factsheet.

This factsheet was created by our Traditional Medicine Program Director, Linzie Crofoot (Tlingit/Colville). Linzie is also the Tribal artist whose original blackberry artwork helped inspire the AI-assisted images used in the design.

The plant information and recipe shared in the factsheet also come from Linzie’s own research, lived experience, and work with traditional foods and medicines.

We understand and appreciate the questions around AI, artists, and cultural representation. In this case, the image was based on Linzie’s own original blackberry artwork and used as part of a factsheet she created for community education.

We’ll drop an image of Linzie’s original blackberry artwork in the comments for folks who would like to see it.
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It’s berry-picking time!

Pacific trailing blackberry is Washington’s only native blackberry and an important traditional food that continues to nourish our communities and strengthen our connection to the land. Learn how to identify it, where to look, how to gather with care, and a simple way to enjoy your harvest.

Stay safe today if you're using fireworks, take a quick look for some safety tips and statistics! 🎇🎆