Finding Direction with Arrow Wild Harvesters
Anpetu waste! In today's episode of Food Revolution, we chat with Jordan Arrow of Arrow Wild Harvesters. Arrow Wild Harvesters was a vendor at the 2019 Sicangu Harvest Market (formerly known as the Keya Wakpala Farmers' Market) and is a local, tribally owned family business operating on the Rosebud Reservation. Jordan recently returned to Rosebud after living off-reservation for a time. He now works with his father and sister, with each bringing their own skills and products to the table. Arrow Wild Harvesters provides edible & medicinal wild plants and herbs, as well as fresh bread and homemade jams and jellies to community members. In this episode, Jordan shares with us what it's like to work with his family, what goes on behind the scenes in his family business, how they got started, and more! Full show notes & transcription available here. _________________________________________ Enjoy listening to Food Revolution? Consider donating to the Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative to help us in our mission to build food sovereignty and a local foods economy to empower our tribal community through food! Donations are 501(c)3 tax deductible. Website: www.sicangucdc.org Facebook: Sicangu Community Development Corporation Instagram: @sicangucdc Twitter: @sicangucdc YouTube: Sicangu Community Development Corporation __________________________________________________ (Intro) Hau Mitakuyapi, and welcome to Food Revolution, brought to you by the Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative. Every other week, we'll be bringing you stories of food sovereignty from community members and tribal food producers working to build a more just, equitable, and regenerative food system for our Sicangu Lakota Oyate - the Burnt Thigh Nation. Together, we're building tribal sovereignty through food, and we've set a place at the table just for you. Join us and be part of the Food Revolution. Michelle (00:00:27): Anpetu waste Oyate, and thanks for tuning into this episode of Food Fevolutionl brought to you by the Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative. I'm Michelle, the FSI Market Manager and your host for today's episode. Our next episode will air two weeks from today. Today we're chatting with Jordan arrow, owner of Arrow Wild Harvesters, and a vendor at the Lakota Harvest Market, formerly known as the Keya Wakpala Farmers' Market located in Mission. Hi Jordan, thanks for joining us. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background? Jordan (00:00:59): I'm spent most of my life here, left to Wyoming and just came back recently the past, close to two years, to do this type of a business. Michelle (00:01:18): What does it mean to you to be able to provide food for your community? Jordan (00:01:23): There's a lot of, uh, different things that people kind of want as far as indigenous plants or, you know, local people… know what grows around where, I know roughly where it's at, but it's kind of a [challenge] to try and get through these wild plants, uh, that are just growing way out and like the middle of nowhere essent