Fort Peck Tribal Seed Library

11/03/2025

Yesterday, PBS made this documentary available on YouTube. Likely, this was done in light of November being Native American Heritage Month, but it's also timely as we're working to preserve our own seed harvest for the next season at our Fort Peck Tribal Seed Library.

Three Haudenosaunee women are leading a powerful movement to reconnect with and protect the original seeds of their ancestors. This documentary follows these...

10/06/2025

Coming up this Wednesday, Oct 8th. We’ll be talking about Seed Sovereignty at TCUs to kick off AIHEC’s Food Sovereignty webinar series.

Join us for the first webinar in our Food Sovereignty Series - Seed Sovereignty at TCUs. October 8, 2025 at 11am CT.

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dWVrYUxpSo-MCHkFDDIIIw

02/20/2025

MIFSI’s form for 2025 Seed Bundles is up!

Montana Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative is preparing seed bundles for our Native relatives in the region. We invite you to sign-up to receive a seed bundle and plant your resiliency garden this spring. In 2025 we are adopting a new model for our program. We will be offering different bundles....

08/01/2024

☕️🌱 When we dry our waštemna, we usually hang it upside down. This year, we set them out over paper to dry.

Those little dark specs in the second picture are waštemna seeds! Not all flowers will produce seeds like this, but our waštemna does. 🌱☕️

03/26/2024

As you begin planning your gardens this spring and maybe looking through old seed packets, remember that most seeds will still be viable for many years 🪴

Are you wondering whether your old vegetable seeds are still good to plant? 🌱

Learn more:https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/infosheet_seed_viability.pdf

03/21/2024

The Tribal Seed Library has re-opened for the 2024 growing season!

Actually, it’s been open since Monday, but our FPCC Traditional Practices for Wellness (TPWIC) Project has been working on our first Seed Inventory to help us learn what type of seeds our community is most interested in.

There are still more seed donations on their way that will be added over the next couple months, but feel free to stop in anytime.

The Tribal Seed Library is located inside the FPCC Tribal Library here in Poplar.

03/01/2024

If anyone would like to join us, we’ll be attending this webinar next week with FPCC Traditional Practices for Wellness (TPWIC).

WEBINAR: Join Tiffany Traverse for this introductory session designed to help build confidence in choosing, growing and saving seeds for and from your garden, using varieties suited to your (and your community’s) specific needs and climatic conditions.

WHEN: Thursday, March 7, 2024

Grab your spot here: https://efao.ca/event/mastering-the-basics/

02/25/2024

AgLand Hardware in Wolf Point has some seeds available & they’re on sale!

It’s not as much as they’ve had in years past, but they’re our only garden seed seller here at Fort Peck, so check out what they’ve got 🪴

02/15/2024

This will be interesting to listen to! They also record these for posting on their YouTube after, so I’ll link to the recording in the comments once it’s posted for anyone not able to listen in this evening.

Seed Story tonight at 6pm MT - very excited to share the work and passions of DARYLE CONQUERING BEAR CROW!

You will need to register to obtain the Zoom access code: https://www.seedsincommon.org/seed-story-reg

Learn more about Daryle before listening to the chat:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/11/10/native-american-children-come-before-the-supreme-court
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/foster-care-youth/daryle-conquering-bear-crow
https://foster.wachildrenandfamilies.org/blog/how-culturally-diverse-foster-parents-can-help-foster-belonging
https://pjrc.ncjfcj.org/publications/building-the-capacity-of-tribal-youth-programs/
https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/my-foster-friends-daryle-conquering-bear-crow

10/31/2023

The Seed Library is hoping to get some Cherokee Tan Pumpkin seeds for next season!
🤞🏽fingers crossed 🤞🏽

and happy halloween, seed friends! 🎃

Cherokee Tan Pumpkin is an heirloom, open-pollinated, pie pumpkin variety that was originally grown by the Cherokee Native Americans in the Appalachian Mountains. This is the most disease-resistant pumpkin ever grown. When carving pumpkins remember .