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.