Our Past is Our Future

Impact Report 2025
Indigenous Food Sovereignty Assn.
and Tea Creek Training

Building for the Future: If you visit the farm today, you’ll see our landscape has transformed. We have broken ground on a 4,000 sq. ft. Food Hub and Leadership Training Centre, as well as a 4,000 sq. ft. steel workshop. We also completed a 4,000 sq. ft. high-end commercial greenhouse, which will drastically extend our growing season and training capabilities.

Check out a video tour of the timber framing here.

Nourishing the People: We grew over 20,000 lbs of fresh vegetables right here on the farm, all of which were given away to our community. In addition, our partnership with Second Harvest allowed us to rescue and distribute over 100,000 lbs of food, reaching thousands of households, schools, and community groups across the northwest.

Seed giveaways went to community gardens, band offices, schools, and anyone interested in that could stop by our site and select what they wanted to grow.
Free gardening and farming irrigation supplies were provided to First Nations farms and gardens.

Community Connection: Our gates remained open. We hosted over 1,200 Indigenous visitors, ranging from elementary and high school groups to the hundreds of neighbors who joined us for our "Farmstand Fridays." Indigenous site visits exceeded 7,000 for the year, and we’ve now had over 46,000 Indigenous site visits since we opened our doors!

We taught plant identification, history of the grease trails, planting seeds, cover crops, transplanting strawberries, learning to forage and to love vegetables fresh from the garden. “They taste better than the store! Kale flowers are my favorite, why don’t they sell them in the stores!?!”
We offered Wild Wednesday workshops with Gitxsan Bush Girl, where participants learned how to harvest and process seasonal medicines and foods.

Training the Next Generations: Through our IFEAST program, we trained over 30 Indigenous people this year. I am incredibly proud to share that over two-thirds of those participants have already graduated and transitioned into meaningful employment or further education.