Native Farming Solutions

07/08/2025

OFIW presents a Summer Art Market!

Saturday, July 12th, 12:00p - 4:00p

Culture Hub in OKC.

Come out and support OFIW, Miss & Jr. Miss Indian Oklahoma, and Native artists.

07/08/2025

ONLY 5 MORE DAYS!!! We can't wait!!!

05/26/2025

Come join us for the month of June and July, we will have our NFS educators out teaching classes.

Are you ready to make this summer the most colorful one yet? Because we are ONE WEEK away from the start of Summer Reading!

Preregister today and start logging your reading minutes beginning June 1. Need more details or want to sign up? Visit metrolibrary.org/summerreading.

05/09/2025

I had seen a post about a community garden that relieved national attention for giving away 2500 plants. I realized we were pretty close to have sprouted that many seeds to grow food/medicine to give away. I felt proud we kept that many seedlings going from February. I stopped by to see my friend Lia over at commonwealth and I felt like I needed to walk around a bit. After looking at all there seedlings I started to wonder how far off they are from starting 20k seeds. I also wondered how many years she’s started mass amounts of seedlings like this. I’d say about 10? At least. That would be 200,000 seedlings. Minimum. Dang, she is probably already in the 1/4 million club. 🫡🌱🌦️🌈🌻

04/22/2025

Happy just another beautiful day! Cause everyday is Earthday with NFS

04/14/2025

Happy Taa’chill! The little leaves month. It’s a pretty common name with the different tribes here in Oklahoma. Many celebrate this month as: “Indian New Year”.

Happy Indian New Year!

This week we are hosting our annual spring gardening and farming class. If you didn’t know, gardens can be any size, there’s no limit. Farms can also be any size. The difference is when you do it for profit. That’s when you’re a farmer.

I meet a lot of talented people in this city who should be using their talent to work for themselves as entrepreneurs.

We’re hosting 2 workshops on Wednesday and Thursday in OKC.

Intro to entrepreneurship will be taught by Red Willow Consulting and the workshop intended to help you navigate LLC finances, branding, and design concepts/platforms so you can save time and money to invest in other important areas of your business.

We’re very proud of our soil health and pest management program. We’re teaming up with Floribundas to also talk about regenerative landscaping that supports bugs and worms. This concept is awesome cause we get to talk about how the bugs n worms are just as important as we are in the grand scheme of things.

We are now sending emails to keep our audience up to date on MFS projects in OKC. DM your email for more info!

04/01/2025

Happy T’aachil! Glad we made it here.
This month NFS is launching a few projects.
One of our goals is to host gardening and farming workshops to help our local community improve their gardening skill for this season.
We’re teaming up with Floribundas Farms and Huerta Urbana to host a workshop on Urban Farming and there will be Spanish translations made available
Lauren and Melissa Rosenfelt will be leading a workshop on marketing and design basics, plus, financial tips for starting a small business.
At the end of the month, NFS will be supporting the Urban Ag Network gathering at Skyline Urban ministry with tacos and agua frescas.

Oklahoma is 49th for fresh foods access and also healthy foods literacy. We want to see that number change for the better and we hope our native community is a part of the reason things improved in our local foods community from 2025-2035. Lettuce know if you would like to attend any of these events! 🌟 🌙🖖🏾😎

03/30/2025

From Winter Solstice to Spring Equinox NFS has been involved with the following projects and we are now prepping for the events of the 2nd quarter. We will be collaborating and hosting 2 small business workshops in April and 1 social event in May. Stay tuned for more info later this week.
1: Supported local native Youth implement Groups to have increase presence at local markets
2: Took urban native youth out to drop trees and split wood for local ceremony
3: we hosted our first class of the year on on traditional foods and language preservation. We relaunched an online version a week after.
4: We launched a curated market that was dialed-in for community engagement, healthy foods literacy, and measurable impact.
5: Spoke on a panel and as a guest speaker at the Environmental Educator Expo.
6: The City Planners graduate class invited the Conservation Commision and NFS to speak about Urban Ag and the future of local food systems.
7: Taught 2 classes on Urban Farming at Muskogee Creek Nation tribal college
8: the team tabled at FAM TEK fest for the 3rd year. We hope to boost TEK advocates for future events.
9: Relaunched Community Market concept at Culture Hub
10: Presented on TEK to the Sociology class at East Central University
11: We are here
12: Prepping for 2 workshops on April and 17th- Marketing and design for entry level entrepreneurs and Urban Farming 101
13: local trailblazers
14: NFS and IYEP

03/30/2025

03/20/2025