Anyone have any leads on a retailer of acorn flour in Canada? Like, we have so many oak trees, and I know it was a traditional ingredient for people here. It seems kinda bonkers that the only non-American retailer that I can find is Turkish.
#acorn #AcornFlour #TraditionalFoods #flour #glutenfreeFlour #baking
#oakTrees #oak #trees #HelpMeFindThis
Preserving #Rutong's #sago forest for food security
February 15, 2025
"Food security
"The potential of Rutong's sago forest is continuing to be developed to maintain food security and thereby, anticipate any food supply crisis.
"'The existence of the Rutong sago forest is an opportunity to revive local food,' the acting mayor of Ambon, Dominggus N. Kaya, said.
"The food security program here is an effort to revive local foods, considering that Ambon City is highly dependent on outside food supplies.
"#Sago has been a staple food for the #Maluku people since ancient times. They process sago into various foods, such as #papeda, #SaguLempeng, #SaguGula (a mixture of sago, brown sugar, and coconut), #KaruKaru (a fried mixture of sago starch and raw coconut), or #uha (a grilled mixture of raw sago and coconut wrapped in sago leaves).
"It is also used to make more contemporary foods such as #brownies and #burgers.
"The #SagoForest is vital for maintaining food security because many areas of #Ambon are seeing infrastructure #development. Thus, the land that can be used for agriculture is small."
Read more:
https://en.antaranews.com/news/345069/preserving-rutongs-sago-forest-for-food-security
#FoodSecurity #foodsovereignty #SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalFoods #Indonesia
So, it seems that #NavajoAgricultureProductsIndustry stopped using #GMOCorn? I hope so!
Safeguarding Sacred Corn
Valerie Taliman, Sep 12, 2018
"In Indian country, #NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries, an enterprise of the #NavajoNation, planted a 10-acre test [#GMO] crop four years ago, but ultimately discontinued it because of consumer demands.
"'We planted a test crop on about 10 acres just to see how it would do, but we found out our buyers did not want genetically modified products,' said Albert Etsitty, corn crop manager. 'Consumers were not educated about it and we let it go.'" [Yeah, who gives a shit about violating sacred Diné law, eh? Consume, consume, consume!]
https://ictnews.org/archive/safeguarding-sacred-corn
#CorporateColonialism #GMOs #BigAg
#EndCapitalism #Colonialism #FoodSecurity #Decolonize #TraditionalFoods
#Capitalism #CulturalGenocide
From 2014: #Diné #FoodSovereignty : A Report on the #NavajoNation Food System and the Case to Rebuild
a Self Sufficient Food System for the Diné People
by the Diné Policy Institute, April 2014
#GMO / #GE on the Navajo Nation
"GMO/GE seeds are currently being used on the Navajo Nation by the #NavajoAgricultureProductsIndustry (#NAPI), located near the chapters of #Hogback, #UpperFruitland, and #Shiprock including #GMOCorn purchased from #Monsanto. As the region remains a major agricultural hub for many Diné farmers, the risk of #GMOContamination of Diné crops, particularly corn, is high. Furthermore, NAPI’s production of #alfalfa also utilizes GMO seed, which many Diné livestock owners purchase under the '#NavajoPride' brand, so GMO/GE feed is entering the Navajo Nation food system through NAPI products.
"In terms of Diné cultural perspectives, Diné knowledge holders, elders, and farmers have criticized the practice of GMO/GE by #biotech industries throughout Diné Policy Institute’s research and Food Sovereignty Initiative, stating that these practices are in direct violation of our teachings; of the Diné Fundamental Laws and our relationship and duty with plants and animals, particularly with our relationship with corn, our most sacred plant, and have stated that GMO/GE threatens the Diné way of life. As GMOs/GE pose such a large threat to Diné famers, Diné seeds, and Diné lifeways, and go against our most basic teachings, it is vital that the Navajo Nation and Diné people address both the presence of GMO/GE food and seeds on the Navajo Nation as well the potential future risks of GMO/GE to Diné Agriculture.
Ban on GMO/GE Seeds and #Pesticides on the Navajo Nation
The technologies and legalities of #GeneticModification and #GeneticEngineering are in direct contradiction to Diné Food Sovereignty. The #corporate ownership and control of seeds threaten the future of Diné agriculture; Diné people must control their seeds and agricultural practices in order to rebuild a self-sufficient food system that provides healthy foods for Diné people and also ensures the continuation of Diné agriculture and lifeways. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that Diné people, Farm Boards and Committees, Chapters, and the Navajo Nation move to ban GMO/GE seeds on the Navajo Nation. As GMO/GE seeds are already being used on the Navajo Nation by the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry (NAPI), this will require NAPI to change agricultural practices and policies, and end the purchase and production of GMO/GE crops. Recent State legislations have outlawed the banning of GMO/GE seeds in many counties; counties and states in the United States where people have the authority to ban GMO/GE seeds are becoming increasing rare. Therefore, the Navajo Nation and the Diné people have a unique opportunity to enact what many cannot through an assertion of Diné Sovereignty.
Native Seed Protections
"In addition to banning GMO/GE seeds, the Navajo Nation and Diné people should also consider enacting legal protections for our Diné seeds, to hold biotech corporations accountable for contamination of Diné seeds if this does occur. This is particularly urgent as legislation and court decisions at the state and federal level are making it increasingly difficult to hold biotech companies responsible for the contamination of heritage, heirloom, and non-GMO/GE seeds. One example of this is the '#MonsantoProtectionAct,' a piece of federal legislation.
"Diné people can begin to protect Diné seeds and provide access to heritage, non GMO/GE seeds through the creation of community Seed Banks and Seed Libraries. Seed banks store seeds, while seed libraries allow people to take seeds to grow, provided that they give some seeds back from what they grow after harvest. Diné seed banks and libraries would also provide access to seeds for growers, addressing a concern of famers in the Community Food Assessment – that they didn’t have access to Native seeds. Seed Banks can include state of the art technology, such as that used by #NativeSeedSearch in Tucson, AZ. However, this is not necessary; Diné and other Native people historically stored seeds in clay jars, recent excavations of such seed preservation methods in the Midwest have produced seeds that were able to grow after 800 years. The seed bank in Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico stores seeds in jars in a dark and cool in-ground cellar.
Education
"GMO/GE ingredients are in the majority of foods that Diné people are eating and GMO/GE seeds are on the Navajo Nation, however, most Diné people are unaware of the existence of these practices. Therefore public education and outreach on genetic modification and genetic engineering for both Diné people and Navajo Nation leadership is needed."
pages 78-79
https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dpi-food-sovereignty-report.pdf
#CorporateColonialism #GMOs #BigAg
#EndCapitalism #Colonialism #FoodSecurity #Decolonize #TraditionalFoods
#Capitalism #CulturalGenocide
From 2010: #Navajo Commercial Farm Using #GeneticallyModified Seeds, Despite Global Protests
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, June 16, 2010
"While #IndigenousPeoples protest #Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds around the world, the Navajo Nation’s commercial farm, #NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries, continues to use these seeds for commercial crops.
"Haitian farmers are now burning donated Monsanto seeds. In India, thousands of farmers committed suicide after switching from traditional seeds to genetically modified seeds. In Chiapas, Mayan farmers have refused to use the seeds which damaged heritage seed stock. Cross pollination from genetically modified seeds can endanger crops from ancient seed stock in the region.
"#Navajos have long planted century-old corn using traditional #DryFarming. Navajos relied on the stars to know when to plant and sometimes planted in spirals, according to Navajo elders in Rock Point, Arizona.
[...]
"However today the Navajo commercial farm boasts on its website that it plants genetic #HybridCorn seed purchased from '#PioneerSeed Company, #Syngenta Inc., and Monsanto companies." The commercial farm, NAPI, is located on the Navajo Nation near Farmington, N.M., and grows commercial food crops, including corn for potato chips, along with potatoes, wheat and other crops.
"Around the world, #Monsanto and genetically modified seeds have meant death for Indigenous Peoples and their crops."
[...]
"The area of northwest #NewMexico has been known as a 'US Sacrifice Area,' since the 1970s. It is the Navajo people who
have been sacrificed, by way of the US government working in collusion with #corporations and the elected Navajo Nation government.
"While #NAPI continues to use genetically modified seeds on its commercial farm, NAPI also has a #RaytheonMissile manufacturing plant located on the commercial farm where the crops are grown, a fact many would like kept secret. The fact that the Raytheon Missile factory is located on the Navajo farm was censored by Indian Country Today in 2006. At that time, Cuba was expressing interest in purchasing food products from NAPI and Indian Country Today editors demanded
that no research be done on Raytheon's missile plant at the farm or any possible pollutants discharged from Raytheon."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/06/navajo-commercial-farm-using.html
#CorporateColonialism #GMOs #BigAg
#EndCapitalism #Colonialism #Decolonize #TraditionalFoods
#Capitalism #CulturalGenocide
From Chapter 14 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndgenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:
"Although the #NavajoTribalCouncil established a mass scale farming initiative called '#NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustry (#NAPI),' the farm has stated on its website that it plants genetic #HybridCorn seed purchased from '#PioneerSeedCompany, #Syngenta Inc., and #Monsanto companies.' In 2014, in an attempt to 'curb' the diabetes epidemic, the #NavajoNationCouncil created a law that raised the sales tax for cheap junk foods sold on Navajo Nation and another removing sales tax from fresh fruits and vegetables. Economic pressure on those already struggling while not addressing the root causes and environmental degradation is par for the course for the #colonial government and Navajo politicians.
"Instead of directly feeding ourselves and communities, we have become dependent on businesses and corporations that are more concerned with profits than our health and well-being. The #BoardingSchools were replete with capitalist indoctrination to forcibly assimilate #Diné children into colonial society. The curriculum was designed with a clear lesson: To feed our families we needed jobs. To have jobs we needed to be trained. To be trained we needed to obey. To not have a job means you’re poor. To employ other workers is to build wealth. To build wealth means success."
Page 302, KleeBenally, NoSpiritualSurrender.
Sounds like when I found out one of my grandma's much beloved potato recipes was actually a very common dish in Sweden. Of course, now the mystery is how my grandma learned about this Swedish dish never having traveled there or apparently even knowing anyone Swedish ever.
#familyrecipies #traditionalfoods #trickery
The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’ https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dirty-secret-of-secret-family-recipes?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Bringing in the wild blueberry crop in Maine.
' “I don’t think a lot of people know who are the folks picking the food for them in the field,” says Juana Rodriguez Vazquez, executive director of Mano en Mano, an organization that connects immigrants and farmworkers in Maine to essential services such as housing and health care. “I don’t think it’s often valued as it should be.” '
#blueberries #farming #farmworkers #Maine #TraditionalFoods #NativeAmerican #Wabanaki
Our process photos are on my Mom's phone so I'll upload those later in week. This is what they look like - after fermentation for over 10 months.
Since extended family have come to live with me, I have learned how to cook everything twice.. as in one pot of regular whatever and one pot of the same but in a gluten free version for my daughter. (she was on life saving anti-biotics in high school for a couple of weeks and ended up with a messed up gut after college) She is very kind and not demanding whatsoever, she always tells me to just cook and bake what ever we need to. We also share cooking duties kind of alternating dinners for everyone. But I have been getting pretty good at finding recipes so that she can enjoy the same as the rest of us at every meal that we share. Two days ago I made traditional fruit cake for Yule. She looked longingly at the loaves. 
Today I made one just for her. I really hope it turns out. I'll share the recipe if it does. I'll dribble brandy on it for a week like I do the regular ones and we'll see.
My first batch of #fermented #SourPlums is done & jarred. There's over 300 in this jar. Starting next batch in 2 weeks, with some of my yellow #plums this time. Preserved with simple coarse salt & cane sugar.
A roll of Nem Chua - #Vietnamese #Cured #Pork with garlic, chili peppers & peppercorns. Wrapped in banana leaf. Made by a family friend.
When my tummy feels unwell, I eat plain rice congee. These are #classic #Chinese #fermented #foods - all pair with congee. I ran out of salted ginger with soy beans & dried shrimp - two other preserved #Asian foods I eat with plain congee.
My tummy will feel better soon. I had a big bowl of plain congee with these 3 foods for my breakfast.
Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies
Kristen Lowitt
Jane Cooper
Kerrie Blaise
#Environment #EnvironmentalRacism #TraditionalFoods #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousRights #FoodSecurity #Reconciliation
#Foodie #Activist #Academic Everyone has access here! #OpenAccess
#OpenScholarship #KnowledgeSharing
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/562
' Unlike other traditional foods, there isn’t a good way to preserve wild celery’s freshness. You eat it when it’s ready, and the group collects enough for everyone to have a taste. It’s a lot of work.
After the celery comes the native roots, then the huckleberries and chokecherries. That means dozens of trips out to the field ... '
#WildCelery #harvest #TraditionalFoods #Oregon #UmatillaConfederatedTribes #NativeAmerican
