Rosebud Bear Schneider Storytelling & Cooking Experience - Michigan Family Farms Conference 2022

Rosebud Bear Schneider - Anishnaabe, Shawnee, P'urhepecha.

Rosebud is a Mama, Daughter, Sister, Cousin, Auntie and friend to many. She was born and raised in Southwest Detroit and now resides in northern Michigan where she's the market manager and farmer for Ziibimijwang Farm and Minogin Market (Little Traverse Bay Band Of Odawak). Her involvement with indigenous food sovereignty work spans over the last 12 years; first as a breastfeeding educator and maternal infant homevisitor with Healthy Start and WIC and then as a farmer and nutrition educator with the Sacred Roots food sovereignty project in Detroit. Her time with Sacred Roots illuminated the passion Rosebud has to feed and care for her community. She also expanded her roots throughout the Detroit Agriculture network as a farmer and former board member at Keep Growing Detroit. As a producer she continues to provide traditional foods across turtle island. Rosebud remains dedicated to supporting the health and wellness of our community by educating on the importance of revitalizing Indigenous foodways. Her lifelong goal is to give her children and the coming generations the knowledge and skills to live a well-rounded healthy life woven with our ancestral ways.

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Saw you on PBS episode. Really cool what your doing also a gardener interested in growing indigenous food grown here in MI. Many commercial varieties while high yielding have lost nutritional value. Example protein in commercial corn 6% native 12 to 16 %.