Harvesters in Kisipakamak (Brochet), recently returned from a successful caribou hunt - providing traditional food for the elders and community. To read about it, subscribe: foodmattersmanitoba.ca/newsletter/ 🦌❄️/ 📸: Myron Cook #hunting #caribou #manitoba #Indigenous #foodsecurity

Nothern partner, Rick Barentsen, recently paid a visit to the school in Tataskweyak (Split Lake) to show students how to set up hydroponic countertops! 🌿/ 📸: Vivian Lin #schoolgarden #manitoba #manitobanews #foodsecurity

When he's not out on the land harvesting, youth harvester Sidney Castel, in Sherridon, enjoys working on his beading. From a young age his grandmother taught him, his cousins, his uncles, and his aunties how to bead. ✨️ / 📸: Sidney Castel #beadwork #art #Indigenous

FMM's Northern harvesting crew in Makeso Sakahikan (Fox Lake/Gillam) and Northern partner Rick Barensten, paid visits to the local schools engaging students and each other, processing wild animals and participating in an indoor growing workshop!🦊🌿 #foodsecurity #schoolgarden

Youth harvester Tegan Lockhart, in Makeso Sakahikan (Fox Lake/Gillam), cooking ptarmigan at the local school for students! 🍴/ 🎥: Tegan Lockhart #cooking #howto #foodsecurity #manitoba #Indigenous

To read our feature on how building local food systems can help be a part of the solution to the ongoing winter road opening delays, click this link: issuu.com/foodmattersman… 📸: Myron Cook #news #manitobanews #foodsecurity #winterroads #Indigenous #canadiannews

Over the winter, youth harvester in Sherridon, Paul Nice, has been braving the cold to improve his harvesting knowledge - taking great photographs in the process! 🐦️❄️To check out his latest personal essay, click this link: issuu.com/foodmattersman…

Want to read a physical copy of the latest edition of our Northern Sun magazine? 👀Pick up a copy at select locations in Winnipeg: foodmattersmanitoba.ca/newsletter/ #winnipegnews #manitoba #canadiannews #canadianmagazine #foodsecurity #Indigenousnews

Food Matters Manitoba announces new leadership change - to see the full press release, click this link: foodmattersmanitoba.ca/food-matters-m… ⁠ #pressrelease #winnipegnews

Youth harvesters Tegan Lockhart and Cameron Saunders smoking lake trout and pike for the community and elders in Makeso Sakahikan (Fox Lake/Gillam). 🐟️🔥 #fishing #cooking #foodsecurity #Indigenous

Northern partner/traditional harvester Lawrence Saunders, in Makeso Sakahikan (Fox Lake/Gillam) brought the youth out for a weekend of fishing! To read about it, subscribe to the beet! 🐟️/ 📸: Lawrence Saunders foodmattersmanitoba.ca/newsletter/ #icefishing #foodsecurity #Indigenous

Over the last few weeks in Makeso Sakahikan (Fox Lake/Gillam), Northern partners, harvesters, and local contractors have been working together to add a building to protect the sweatlodge year round and keep participants warm in the winter! ❄️ / 📸: Lawrence Saunders #tradition

Northern partner and traditional harvester, Lester Balfour, in Kinosao Sipi (Norway House) is keeping busy during the early spring season - continuing to harvest healthy whitefish for the elders and community! 🐟️ / 📸: Lester Balfour #foodsecurity #icefishing #manitoba

Calling on recipe and art submissions! Do you have any food or art you'd like featured in our upcoming spring edition of The Northern Sun? All submissions are welcome 🙂. Please send to [email protected] #food #artsubmissions #canadaartist

As March winds down, youth harvester Paul Nice, is slowing down on his hunting and focusing on his fishing in Sherridon - enjoying the incoming warmer weather. ☀️🐟️⁠ / 📸: Paul Nice ⁠ #fishing #outdoors #hunting #manitoba⁠

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This spring, youth harvester in Leaf Rapids, Stanley Baker, is busy harvesting vegetables for the community - giving away free lettuce at the town centre, ordering plants, and getting ready for the summer season ahead! 🥬 / 📸: Rick Barentsen #gardening #foodsecurity #manitoba

Little John in O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi (Crane River), has been helping his family with red maple tapping since the age of two years old with supplies provided by FMM! 🍁 / 📸: Lacquette Family #maplesyrup #mapletrees #mapletapping #Indigenous