Upcoming events.
Salad & Stories: Cooking Class
Salad and Stories event blended fresh garden flavors with heartfelt community storytelling. This cooking class series celebrates food and storytelling.
All of our nutrition education classes are free and we try to supply all of the ingredients. Our classes are intended to be family friendly and inclusive, we also have accessible kitchen utensils for anyone to use.
Please let us know if you or a family member require any special accommodations in order to participate.
On The Land: Growing Health Program
The Growing Health Program invites participants and their families to step outside, connect with the natural world, and learn directly from the land. Guided by local knowledge keepers, this hands-on experience will explore the plants that grow in the area-how to identify them, their traditional uses, and the stories they carry.
This is a family-friendly gathering, welcoming all ages to learn, share, and build relationships with the land and each other.
Our next On the Land workshop will take place in the St. Mary area. We will explore the 1913 Ranger Station and learn about plants along the Beaver Pond Loop.
FAST Table
We will be at the summer market, stop on by! It’ll be held at the Medicine Spring Library located on the BFCC campus.
Come check out some indigenous made artwork, beadwork and other snazzy stuff.
Salad & Stories: Cooking Class
Salad and Stories event blended fresh garden flavors with heartfelt community storytelling. This cooking class series celebrates food and storytelling.
All of our nutrition education classes are free and we try to supply all of the ingredients. Our classes are intended to be family friendly and inclusive, we also have accessible kitchen utensils for anyone to use.
Please let us know if you or a family member require any special accommodations in order to participate.
Forage to Fork: Cooking with Dandelions (Virtual Class)
Discover how to safely gather, prepare, and enjoy a commonly found wild plant- dandelions!
In this free virtual class, we’ll explore how dandelions have been used as both food and medicine, and we’ll make a simple recipe together using fresh dandelion greens.
What you'll learn:
– How to identify, harvest, and clean dandelions
– Traditional and nutritional benefits
– How to store or preserve dandelions for later
– A step-by-step cooking demo you can follow from home
Ingredient bags will be available for pickup before class so you can cook along!
Open to all ages – perfect for individuals or families.
On The Land: Growing Health
The Growing Health Program invites participants and their families to step outside, connect with the natural world, and learn directly from the land. Guided by local knowledge keepers, this hands-on experience will explore the plants that grow in the area-how to identify them, their traditional uses, and the stories they carry.
This is a family-friendly gathering, welcoming all ages to learn, share, and build relationships with the land and each other.
Our presenter this week is Darnell Rides At The Door, a respected Pikuni (Ampskapi Pikuni) woman. Apprenticed to her strong, wise ancestors, she continues, dedicated to the legacies of a rich, powerfully beautiful way of life. Focusing on understanding and sharing the Pikuni World View, in ways of knowing with our way of life for survival, good health and well being, Darnell concentrates on all that is Pikunii; ethnobotany and herbology, gardening, gathering and preparing these gifts from the Earth are inherent and full of rewarding outcomes, as she works to make the best of both worlds balancing today's changes with ancient tradition.
On The Land: Growing Health
The Growing Health Program invites participants and their families to step outside, connect with the natural world, and learn directly from the land. Guided by local knowledge keepers, this hands-on experience will explore the plants that grow in the area-how to identify them, their traditional uses, and the stories they carry.
This is a family-friendly gathering, welcoming all ages to learn, share, and build relationships with the land and each other.
Our first presenter FAST Blackfeet's own, Danielle Antelope. Danielle is a member of the Blackfeet Nation and Eastern Shoshone Nation. She was born and raised in Browning Montana. In 2021, Danielle graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Food & Bioenergy Systems. During her time at MSU, she received multiple awards based on her civic engagement on campus and within her home community. Danielle serves as the Executive Director of Food Access and Sustainability Team Blackfeet, known as FAST Blackfeet. This organization provides access to healthy and culturally relevant foods, nutrition education, and gardening/wild harvesting opportunities within the Blackfeet Nation. Danielle is passionate about learning and sharing the changes in the Blackfeet food system and how those changes reflect in the health of the people today.
