As the coronavirus pandemic strains supplies, Native Americans fight food insecurity.
"Much of North Dakota is in a food desert," Nelson, who recently applied for a USDA grant, said."People are very used to flour and sugar and processed foods. It's really difficult to change mindsets."
of 86 percent among the adult population and 55 percent among school-age children, triggering higher rates of diabetes and heart disease."If you grow your own food," she added,"you're more likely to eat it."Native seed organizations say the pandemic has increased interest in what they've been doing for decades.
Clayton Brascoupe is a co-founder of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association, which donates seeds to home farmers.The association, which has shipped its locally sourced seeds to as far away as Canada and Florida, formed in 1992 to help bring more people, especially youth, into agriculture, teaching about seed quality and germination.
Among those who received donations was the organization Utah Diné Bikéyah, which refers to the"human relationship to the earth's surface" in the Diné Bizaad, or Navajo, language.Alastair Bitsóí, an organization spokesperson who is Diné and a citizen of the Navajo Nation, said the fact that Native farmers are sharing their resources with the"Seeds and Sheep" program is meaningful.
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