Six Nations Health Services + McMaster University

This team’s project focus includes: 

• Redeveloping menus within Six Nations Health Services, including the Student Nutrition Program, Iroquois Lodge Long Term Care Centre, the Jay Silverheels Supportive Housing Complex, and Meals on Wheels. 

• Addressing food waste and sustainability within Six Nations Health Services facilities.

• Creating a food strategy through research, community involvement, and quantitative and qualitative data gathering. 

• Building partnerships for a community collective of food producers within Six Nations of the Grand River territory by building and maintaining relationships with farmers, growers, harvesters, hunters, fishers, foragers, and those with the knowledge to share about Haudenosaunee foods. 

• Knowledge translation, in order to have community members understand the importance of local food, healthy food, and traditional Haudenosaunee food.