Skillshares & Workshops

Group of people wearing masks gathered under a canopy working on skinning and preparing a rabbit on a wooden table outdoors.

Work As Medicine (W.A.M.)

Work As Medicine arose organically as a community response in loving reciprocity with the plants, the animals, and the land. This varies seasonally - sometimes we’re making herbal medicine together that gets shared at the Tahoma Indian Center, sometimes it’s harvesting together, sometimes we tend and mulch garden beds, and it could even be communal canning.

We collaborate with Canoe Journey Herbalists and the Native Sharing Garden by hosting Work As Medicine bimonthly.

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Two women, one young girl and one older woman, preparing jars of food outdoors under a canopy on a sunny day. The older woman wears a wide-brimmed hat, and the young girl has a red bandana and glasses. They are working together to can food bottles.

Canning & Preserving

Here at the farm we center the traditional foodways of our BIPOC kin. Reconnecting folks with their ancestral traditions and safely practicing these sovereign traditions has been a big focus of our work. We preserve using both water bath canning and pressure canning methods. Some traditional foods we work with include:

  • rabbit

  • elk

  • deer

  • and salmon.

We also teach pemmican making and preserving using dehydration as well.

(Re)membering Our Ancestral Ways