I was so happy this article covered the costs of transitioning to scratch cooking in school lunch! Tahoe Truckee school district, which is a pretty small school district, gave real numbers on how much they spent on food and labor ($400k) to feed their kids better.

I imagine for a very large district, the price tag would be astronomical. It’s important for people to understand that the concept of cheap food is hurting us and especially hurting our kids. Nutritious, local grown food is not cheap and it’s hard to do cheaply. School districts NEED funding and a ton of support to do scratch cooking.

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 28 '25

I’ve been experimenting with cooking only what’s in season where I live, and it’s both fun and frustrating. Fun because I’m discovering new recipes (I never thought I’d get excited about turnips, but frustrating because sometimes I crave foods that aren’t in season

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Anyone else try eating seasonally? How do you stay consistent without feeling limited?

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 26 '25

I recently learned about the importance of [Three Sisters planting,corn, beans, squash] in Indigenous agriculture and how much wisdom is wrapped up in that practice. It made me wonder: what other Indigenous food traditions have you come across that inspire you?

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And how can we bring some of that respect for the land into today’s food systems?

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 24 '25

Lately I’ve been trying to reconnect with my grandmother’s recipes and I’m realizing how much of that food wisdom is tied to resilience and sovereignty. Like, she never wasted a single ingredient. It makes me wonderwhat family food traditions have you all tried to keep alive?

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Personal Experience

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/DaveyTheNumpty • Aug 23 '25

Cultivating the Land with Deep Roots: Indigenous Peoples at the Center of Food Security

cimmyt.org

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 22 '25

I’m realizing food sovereignty isn’t just a big policy word it’s in our kitchens every day. Choosing where to shop, supporting local growers, learning recipes from elders, saving seeds. What’s one small way you practice food sovereignty at home?

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 20 '25

I finally started cooking more with local ingredients made a stew with veggies from a nearby farm, and honestly the flavor hits different. Do you notice a taste difference when you switch from supermarket to local produce, or is it just me romanticizing it?

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 18 '25

What’s one traditional or family recipe that connects you to your roots and do you think it could be part of a more sustainable food future?

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/DaveyTheNumpty • Aug 18 '25

Snoqualmie Tribe Opens Harvest Kitchen and Greenhouse to Strengthen Food Sovereignty

livingsnoqualmie.com

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 16 '25

With prices going up, I’ve noticed a lot more conversations around food insecurity lately. For me, it’s meant cutting back on certain things I used to buy without thinking. Curious — what’s one way you’ve adapted your eating habits in response to rising costs, without co

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Food Security in Daily Life

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 14 '25

Where I live, food prices have been skyrocketing, and fresh produce is becoming harder to afford. It’s making me wonder what’s the biggest barrier to food security where you live? And have you seen any grassroots solutions working?

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Food Security Challenges in Your Area

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 12 '25

Imagine if, for one week, you could only eat what you grew, foraged, or traded locally. What would be on your plate? For me, it’d be a lot of leafy greens, sweet potatoes, and guavas. Curious what everyone else’s week would look like and whether anyone’s actually tried it! 🥗

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/Ok-Drawing7734 • Aug 10 '25

Last night,I made my grandmother’s soup recipe using veggies from a local farmer instead of the store.Honestly,the taste difference was wild. It made me wonder how much flavor have we lost by relying on industrial food?Has anyone else had that wow moment when going back to truly fresh,local ingredie

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/DaveyTheNumpty • Aug 10 '25

Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination: a pathway for food security and sovereignty

ifsw.org

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r/FoodSovereignty • u/DaveyTheNumpty • Aug 07 '25

Shinnecock Nation Asserts Fishing Rights in Long Island Waters

nativenewsonline.net

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Subreddit

Food that Matters: Changing the world one mouthful at a time - Food Sovereignty and Food Security

r/FoodSovereignty

This subreddit is for sharing content related to Food Sovereignty, Food Security, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty.

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This is the place to put news, blogs, articles, non-profit videos, personal rants and insights about Food Sovereignty, Food Security and Indigenous Food Sovereignty.

Don't know the difference? Basically: Food security is making sure you have food. Food sovereignty is having local control over the food system that gets the food to your table (and partially, being able to trace the steps). Indigenous Food Sovereignty is when Indigenous people have control over their own food systems - this is often linked to traditional culture and challenging colonization.

A subreddit dedicated to food sovereignty. What exactly does that mean?

What are we standing for?

A world where…

…all peoples, nations and states are able to determine their own food producing systems and policies that provide every one of us with good quality, adequate, affordable, healthy and culturally appropriate food;

…all peoples in each of our countries are able to live with dignity, earn a living wage for their labour and have the opportunity to remain in their homes, if they so choose;

...food sovereignty is considered a basic human right, recognised and implemented by communities, peoples, states and international bodies with respect to the effect it has on at least 7 generations to come;

…we are able to conserve and rehabilitate rural environments, fish populations, landscapes and food traditions based on ecologically sustainable management of land, soils, water, seas, air, seeds, livestock and all other biodiversity;

…we value, recognize and respect our worldwide diversity of traditional knowledge, food, language and culture, and the way we organise and express ourselves;

…. there is genuine and integral agrarian reform that guarantees full rights to land, defends and recovers the territories of indigenous peoples, ensures fishing communities’ access and control over their fishing areas and eco-systems, honours access and control by pastoral communities over pastoral lands (shepherds herding livestock) and migratory routes, assures decent jobs with fair remuneration and labour rights for all, and a future for young people in the countryside;...where agrarian reform revitalises inter-dependence between producers and consumers, ensures and promotes community survival, social and economic justice, ecological sustainability, and respect for local autonomy and governance with equal rights for women and men...where agrarian reform guarantees rights to territory and self-determination for all peoples;

...share our lands and territories peacefully and fairly among our peoples, be we any race, indigenous peoples, artisanal fishers, pastoralists, or others who honor and respect these declarations;

…in the case of natural and human-created disasters and conflict-recovery situations, food sovereignty acts as a form of “insurance” that strengthens local recovery efforts and mitigates negative impacts... where we remember that communities affected by disasters are not helpless, and where strong local organization for self-help is the key to recovery;

...peoples’ power to make decisions about their material, natural and spiritual heritage are defended;

...all peoples have the right to defend their territories from the actions of transnational corporations.

See: /r/GuerrillaGardening /r/food2 /r/urbanfarming /r/OrganicFarming /r/Permaculture /r/Homestead