by Kesia Nagata | Mar 24, 2021 | Regenerative Agriculture, SWCC in the news
In the fall of 2020, Shannon and Kesia participated in Salmon Nation’s Festival of What Works, speaking about SWCC’s experiences through our first season of chicken farming in a rural, remote, and Indigenous community, in an extra-challenging year, and in...
by Kesia Nagata | Mar 24, 2021 | Projects, Regenerative Agriculture
Our story on YoungAgrarians.org The Power of Feeding Ourselves Concerns over food security in the Gitxsan Nation started well before the pandemic. During the Festival of What Works (full video below), Shannon McPhail of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition...
by Kesia Nagata | Mar 15, 2021 | Skeena Stories
Early in 2021, high school students reached out to SWCC as part of a school assignment and asked, “In your personal opinion what do you find to be our biggest environmental issue?” Here is the response: Thanks for messaging me and asking such a great...
by Kesia Nagata | Jan 14, 2021 | Past Projects, Skeena Stories
Searching for the trails of our Gitxsan ancestors. Originally called the Skeena Awareness Project (aka SAP), we completed 2 rafting expeditions in the upper Skeena on our Territories in search of ancient trails, campsites and village sites. We wanted to know how...
by Kesia Nagata | Oct 15, 2020 | Projects, Regenerative Agriculture
The goal was to pilot Canada’s first poultry-centred regenerative agriculture project in the Skeena and the project resulted in the successful raising of our test flock which was 1500 chickens grown on Gitxsan land, by Gitxsan community members. SWCC partnered...
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