Native Roots Farm Foundation (NRFF) puts its mission of revitalizing and amplifying Indigenous ecological knowledge into practice through programming.
Our programs use art, food, and horticulture as tools to highlight specific native plants, educate participants about the relationships Indigenous communities have with the environment, and nurture relationships with plants in hands-on and engaging ways.
NRFF’s programs help rekindle the reciprocal relationships that Indigenous people have with plants. We prioritize outreach to members of local Native American communities, and everyone is encouraged to join, no matter their background.
We hope you’ll join us in the community!
Behind every seed is a story. Join us for a hands-on and educational program highlighting two local, culturally meaningful Squash varieties and to grow your autonomy as a gardener. This program is led by Nate Kleinman of the Experimental Farm Network and Courtney Streett, NRFF’s President/Executive Director.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
New York area friends, IPDNYC (Indigenous Peoples Day NYC will be celebrated October 12th and 13th on Randall’s Island. Let’s honor and recognize Lenapehoking’s first people during this beautiful fall event.
At Native Roots Farm Foundation (NRFF), we are upholding and revitalizing our ancestors’ teachings by leading hands-on cultural programming, rematriating ancestral foods, and creating spaces for healing and community in The Three Sisters Garden and throughout the region.
We invite you to join us in honoring balance and building resilience for the next Seven Generations. Help us raise $10,000 during our annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day campaign, this weekend, to sustain and grow our programs and organization. Your support helps us strengthen food sovereignty, grow our impact, and create spaces of healing and cultural pride.
The first Pow Wow held in Prospect Park since 1972, and the second ever Lenape Pow Wow in New York City, this free, two-day public event welcomes the original Indigenous Lenape peoples who were forced to relocate across the continent back to their ancestral homelands to reunite and share their cultures with Brooklynites today. Join the weekend of family friendly fun, culture, art and learning with Indigenous dancers, drummers, and artisan craft and food vendors.
We look forward to seeing you at Hudson Fields in September!
Please contact the Nanticoke Indian Association with any questions.
It’s almost time for the Nanticoke Indian Powwow and your help is needed. If you enjoy flexing your culinary muscles, we could use your help preparing Tehim Juice for the powwow. We will be making the hydrating sweet treat on Thursday, September 4th in Wilmington, DE. Sign up now to lend a hand!
It’s almost time for the Nanticoke Indian Powwow and your help is needed. If you enjoy flexing your culinary muscles, we could use your help preparing Tehim Juice for the powwow. We will be making the hydrating sweet treat on Thursday, September 4th in Wilmington, DE. Sign up now to lend a hand!
We would love to welcome YOU to The Three Sisters Garden in Middletown, DE! Come slow down, be in community, and help us weed, harvest, and celebrate the Lenape and Nanticoke Corn, Beans, and Squash flourishing in their ancestral soils. Opportunities to join us include August 12th, 19th, and 26th from 9am-1pm. Sign up now to volunteer with NRFF – and we will be in touch!
We would love to welcome YOU to The Three Sisters Garden in Middletown, DE! Come slow down, be in community, and help us weed, harvest, and celebrate the Lenape and Nanticoke Corn, Beans, and Squash flourishing in their ancestral soils. Opportunities to join us include August 12th, 19th, and 26th from 9am-1pm. Sign up now to volunteer with NRFF – and we will be in touch!
We would love to welcome YOU to The Three Sisters Garden in Middletown, DE! Come slow down, be in community, and help us weed, harvest, and celebrate the Lenape and Nanticoke Corn, Beans, and Squash flourishing in their ancestral soils. Opportunities to join us include August 12th, 19th, and 26th from 9am-1pm. Sign up now to volunteer with NRFF – and we will be in touch!
Join us at the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art for Creative Escape: Painting with Native Plants. There are *10* complimentary community tickets for the program. If you would like to reserve community tickets, email NRFF with (1) your name, (2) your email address, (3) your phone number, and (4) the number of tickets you would like.
Soak up the first day of summer with the Grounds For Sculpture Horticulture team and Courtney Streett, President/Executive Director of Native Roots Farm Foundation, to explore the relationships Indigenous people of the area we now call New Jersey have had with native plants in our collection. You’ll learn about both the scientific and cultural importance of these plants. This program includes a walking tour and art making activity using native plant dye.
Celebrate the summer solstice with the Grounds For Sculpture Horticulture team and Courtney Streett, President/Executive Director of Native Roots Farm Foundation, to explore the relationships Indigenous people of the area we now call New Jersey have had with native plants in our collection. You’ll learn about both the scientific and cultural importance of these plants. This program includes a walking tour and art making activity using native plant dye.
Join us at the 44th Strawberry Moon Powwow! Gates open at 10am. The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation has moved the powwow location to the Cumberland County Fairgrounds, and closer to their headquarters in Bridgeton, NJ.
Please join us for Heritage Day at the Nanticoke Indian Museum.
For questions, call the Nanticoke Tribe: (302) 945 - 3400
The fourth annual Powwow of Arts and Culture is April 12th (11am - 4pm) at the Delaware Art Museum. This Powwow is free and open to the public. You bring your friends and family and we’ll bring the Tehim (Lenape for Strawberry) Juice – the first of the 2025 season!
Making Brooklyn Bloom, is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual kickoff to the spring gardening season. This community driven day is free and open to all visitors. Join workshops, tours, and network with NYC greening organizations.
Do More 24 Delaware is a 24 hour day of giving designed to help nonprofits raise more money and engage new donors. Visit DEGives.org to support these and other Delaware nonprofits year round.
Calling all homeschoolers, ages 6-18! Join NRFF at the Dover Library for a free afternoon of hands-on learning. We'll discuss Indigenous ecological knowledge and the relationships that Indigenous people have with plants that are native to this region. We'll also enjoy interacting with some of these plants as food and art: by sipping Tehim Juice (Lenape for Strawberry), savoring Kaxhax'keek cookies (Lenape for Spicebush), and painting with Chàkinkwèm berries (Lenape for Pokeweed). You don't want to miss this hands-on and fun opportunity to engage with plants that are all around us!
Registration is required for all events and opens approximately one month before the event begins. Please ensure that your email and phone number are correct and only register the participating youth (ages 6-18)! One no-call, no-show will result in removal from the registration list, but you are still welcome to join as a walk-in & see if space is available.
For any questions, please email Elizabeth.Miller@lib.de.us and Carlee.Hayden@lib.de.us.
Join NRFF at Grounds For Sculpture to explore the relationships Indigenous people of the area we now call New Jersey have had with native plants in our collection. You’ll learn about both the scientific and cultural importance of these plants. This program includes a one-hour walking tour and art making activity using native plant dye.
Join NRFF at Grounds For Sculpture to explore the relationships Indigenous people of the area we now call New Jersey have had with native plants in our collection. You’ll learn about both the scientific and cultural importance of these plants. This program includes a one-hour walking tour and art making activity using native plant dye.
FREE 24-hour celebration of 532 years of survival. Join us on Randall's Island for New York City's official indigenous People's Day Celebration. Event begins 11:00 a.m October 13th and continues 24 hours. Join us for our sunrise ceremony 7:00 a.m. on October 14th
Delaware is the traditional and current homeland to many Indigenous peoples and their living cultures and practices. This event uplifts current Indigenous initiatives in the Delaware watersheds, fosters campus awareness, and engages in collective learning for the preservation of our environment and First State Indigenous cultures. Come learn from representatives of cutting-edge Nanticoke land stewardship and language revitalization projects for an educational, hands-on, and community-building experience.
Join us for Painting with Pokeweed and celebrate native plants through a hands-on, ethnobotanical, foraging, and artistic experience. After a hayride through Mt. Cuba Center’s natural lands, learn about the relationships Indigenous communities have with Chàkinkwèm (Lenape for Pokeweed), mindfully forage for Chàkinkwèm, make ink from Chàkinkwèm berries, and create watercolor paintings with your homemade pèkòn (Lenape for red dye). Painting with Pokeweed is a partnership between Mt. Cuba Center and Native Roots Farm Foundation. Children must be 8 or older to participate. Closed-toe shoes and clothes that can get messy are recommended. Included with garden admission, advance registration required.
This program takes place in person in Mt. Cuba Center natural lands Saturday, September 21, 2024 (Rain Date: Sunday, September 22, 10 AM-12 PM).
**Special for the NRFF community: when signing up for this program, enter the code POKEWEED50 at checkout and receive 50% off!
This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.
Join us for Painting with Pokeweed and celebrate native plants through a hands-on, ethnobotanical, foraging, and artistic experience. After a hayride through Mt. Cuba Center’s natural lands, learn about the relationships Indigenous communities have with Chàkinkwèm (Lenape for Pokeweed), mindfully forage for Chàkinkwèm, make ink from Chàkinkwèm berries, and create watercolor paintings with your homemade pèkòn (Lenape for red dye). Painting with Pokeweed is a partnership between Mt. Cuba Center and Native Roots Farm Foundation. Children must be 8 or older to participate. Closed-toe shoes and clothes that can get messy are recommended. Included with garden admission, advance registration required.
This program takes place in person in Mt. Cuba Center natural lands Friday, September 20, 2024 (Rain Date: Sunday, September 22, 2-4 PM).
**Special for the NRFF community: when signing up for this program, enter the code POKEWEED50 at checkout and receive 50% off!
This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.
Celebrate the 46th Annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow through traditional music, dance, Native American crafts and food. This spectacular 2-day powwow features intertribal Native American dancers and an expansive market of authentic Native American art, crafts, jewelry, food (don’t miss the fry bread & Nanticoke Indian Tacos!), the Southern Delaware Hot Rod Car Show and more. The Nanticoke Indian Powwow is an experience not to be missed, connecting the public to ancient Native American traditions and cultures and to each other.
Join us at the Blue Ball Barn for Folk Art Friday! There will be live music, food trucks, local artists including Denise Bright Dove Ashton-Dunkley (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape), and activities for all ages!
Come out and join the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation’s 43rd Annual Powwow! A fun event for the whole family! Enjoy some of our people’s traditions, songs, food, and culture!
Learn how to transform fish skin into fish xès (Lenape for leather), an art form that has been practiced by Indigenous communities from around the world. Work with your hands to scrape the skin clean, wash the material, and then soften it into xès.
Join us to celebrate the flowers of Tehim (Lenape for Strawberry) and practice the art form of beadwork.
Learn about local Native American communities, understand the history and journey of beadwork, and appreciate native plants through an Indigenous ecological perspective while creating an artistic representation of a Tehim flower that will be customized into a brooch, keychain, or necklace.
Learn about the Yaupon plant, sample different Yaupon tea blends, and create pottery to enjoy future brews with. Space is limited, sign up now to participate in this program at the Rehoboth Art League. This program is a partnership with Project CommuniTea and the Rehoboth Art League.