Resources Available on Indigenous-led Agroforestry in the Southwest

Resources from the recently completed Southwest Tribal Agroforestry Outreach Project are now available online from the Quivira Coalition. An assortment of written, video, and audio resources is offered, including newly released videos of Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute’s 30-year-old food forest and Tewa Women United’s Healing Foods Oasis. Materials released over the last year include a video of Santa Ana Native Plants Nursery and a publication by Alicia Thompson, titled A Peek at Indigenous Agroforestry in the Southwest. Project leaders commented, “We learned so much, including the need to broaden the definition of agroforestry and embed it within frameworks like traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous lifeways. Making this connection helps all of us see how agroforestry needs to be place-based and specific to the cultural and ecological context where it is being practiced. When we focus on stewarding the land for ecological health, community care, and Indigenous sovereignty, practices like agroforestry are more readily realized.”
Related ATTRA publication: Community Forest Gardens: Case Studies Throughout the United States