The goal of Chickaloon Village Sustainable Foods Initiative is to re-assert our Food Sovereignty. To us Food Sovereignty is the right of people and communities to define their own policies and strategies for the sustainable production, harvesting, distribution, and consumption of food, with respect for culture and systems of managing natural resources.
Our four-season ecologically designed greenhouse is a proactive response to meeting our current community food needs and is an assertion of our food sovereignty. 90% of all Alaska’s food is imported from the lower-48, a trend that has steadily increase over the last 40 years. We believe the risk to continued support of agribusiness for our food needs, especially during the 9 months of winter, is much too great. Our aim with this business is to increase local food production, and consumption, until as a bioregion, we are food secure.
As our greenhouse business grows we will increase acreage in agriculture production, assist with the development of community gardens for tribal members and offer our support to other communities in Alaska seeking to become more food secure through educational opportunities and consultation.
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