Support Hand Farming Tools and Equipment

The high-intensity organic hand-farming methods we teach enable people to grow between 7,000 and 14,000lb of food per year in an area the size of an average front or back yard on reserve. What is missing for people is access to affordable supplies and tools. We'd like to equip our trainees and communities with the supplies and tools they need to produce an abundance of healthy, local food.

Some Ideas:

• Provide funding for starting food production including greenhouses, incubators, seed starting, and tilling up spaces.
• Provide funding for essential tools such as mini-rototillers (called Tilthers), broad forks, seeders, harvest baskets, and weeding and harvest knives.
• Support the purchase of essential supplies needed to establish and maintain small scale hand farms such as landscape fabric, bio-mulch, sprinklers and drip tape, irrigation line, floating row cover, occultation tarps, and compost.
• Provide seed funding and support to Indigenous market farmers who are starting out.