Ancestral FoodWays Collective Society
The land we gather, organise and heal alongside, is the unceded and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples - since time immemorial.
Indigenous Food Hub
We offer workshops and catering for festivals and events, as we are building a social enterprise to move towards self-sustainability. We work with culinary practices in our ancestral lineages, inviting community members to learn and participate in cooking, preservation, and understanding food histories.
Chinampa Garden
Our Chinampa Garden is a designed to work within the wetland ecosystem we exist within; to demonstrate a model of growing food that promotes biodiversity and food sovereignty; while grow and harvest traditional and ancestral crops such as corn, beans, squash, potatoes and many other medicinal plants.
Youth and Land Based
We advocate for Indigenous food sovereignty, working with youth on the land to grow relationships; to support and empower leadership of future generations. We move in circles of seasonality, ceremony and relationship with the land and each other, and the more than human, focusing on accessibility for those expereinceing barriers to equity.
Our Vison
Ancestral FoodWays Collective Society envisions an intercultural future of Indigenous Food Sovereignty.
Where the Biocultural Heritage of this land is protected, held in sovereignty by Indigenous communities, with thriving ancestral food systems in place to sustain and hold up Indigenous knowledge and lived experiences.
We are working towards a world where Indigenous solidarity economies flourish within corridors of biocultural interconnection: where humans and the more-than-human find nourishment, shelter, and healing within abundant and diverse ecosystems of land, water, and food.
Central to this vision is the empowerment of the next generation, ensuring they are equipped with the critical knowledge, practices, skills and resources to navigate and address the challenges of the modern world while honoring and perpetuating their cultural heritage.
