May 6, 2021

The Farm Helping Indigenous Seattleites Reconnect to Their Roots

Author: Emily Nonko

This March, just south of Seattle, a nearly one-acre farm opened to grow plants and food traditional to Native Americans, with the goal of providing produce for a new cafe that will cook Native foods. It is the latest project of Chief Seattle Club, a Native-led human services agency dedicated to “physically and spiritually supporting American Indian and Alaska Native people.”
Called Sovereignty Farm, it will complement a number of Chief Seattle Club efforts. The farm already hosts the organizati