First Foods: Soil Tasting & Soil Health with Shannon Francis ((Diné/Hopi))
Channel: First Foods Program
Date: 2020-06-09

First Foods: Soil Tasting and Soil Health with Instructor Shannon Francis.


Shannon is from Kykotsmovi, Arizona. Shannon is a certified Permaculture Design Instructor, focusing more on Indigenous Permaculture, the weaving of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with innovative science. The mother of six children, Shannon comes from twelve generations of earth caretakers and seed keepers. She is an active educator and has presented and taught widely on permaculture design and practicing Indigenous Permaculture at the Denver Indian Family resource, Rocky Ridge Boarding School on the Navajo Nation.


THANK YOU to our partner Ibex Puppetry for the support to make this happen!


~~~~


First Foods is an educational series that features Indigenous culture bearers who hold the oldest knowledge on the continent. 

Our goals: 

1. Preserve and share Indigenous knowledge making what is often unavailable to urban Native people available. Our target market is other Indigenous people and our program is spearheaded by Indigenous womxn. 

2.Provide much needed teaching opportunities to a population of people who are valuable to preserving biodiversity, promoting alternative food preparation, and highlighting ways to build health outside industrial food systems.