Four Sisters Food Sovereignty

The Four Sisters Food Sovereignty program brings the community together to improve healthy food access and celebrate Indigenous heritage and culture. We strive to seed opportunities to engage with fresh and healthy food in various ways and heal land, bodies, and spirits.

The program features both a Four Sisters Farmers Market and a Four Sisters Urban Farm. The market takes place June-October on every Thursday during the season. It features a wide variety of Indigenous and other BIPOC vendors that sell produce, canned goods, spices, handmade home goods like soaps, handcrafted jewelry and clothing, and more. It is a welcoming and vibrant space that creates a hub of community activity on Franklin Ave, with frequent demonstrations for food, art, and music. Community members have vocalized a direct impact of the market on the availability of fresh, healthy food in their lives.

The Four Sisters Urban Farm is an intentional space of healing on a previously vacant lot alongside the greenway in the Phillips neighborhood. The urban farm houses art fixtures, community garden plots, a free library regarding food sovereignty, and lessons and events throughout the growing season. Programming at the farm works to connect neighbors back with the land and their food directly. The Four Sisters Urban Farm team is also in the process of developing a medicine garden for community members to have access to healing plant medicines and to have a quiet, peaceful place to gather.

This year, the Four Sisters Urban Farm and Four Sisters Farmers Market teamed up to create the Four Sisters Urban Growers Collective. The program seeks to support urban agriculture, create access to healthy culturally appropriate foods, and build community connections. Four Sisters held a collective table at the farmers market selling produce and flowers from various small scale urban growers. This collaborative approach benefits each grower and provides an opportunity to begin bringing their produce to market.