Four Sisters Food Sovereignty

The Four Sisters Food Sovereignty program brings the community together to improve healthy food access, strengthen food security, and celebrate Indigenous stewardship, heritage, and culture. We provide opportunities for community members to connect with healthy, culturally meaningful food.

The program consists of our Four Sisters Farmers Market, Four Sisters Urban Farm, and Four Sisters Growers Collective.

Four Sisters Farmers Market

The market takes place June-October on every Thursday during the season. It features a wide variety of Indigenous and BIPOC vendors that sell produce, canned goods, spices, handmade home goods, handcrafted jewelry, art, and clothing, and more. It is a welcoming and vibrant space that serves as a hub for community connection on Franklin Avenue. At the market we have frequent demonstrations for food, art, and music. Community members have voiced that the market has a direct, positive impact on the availability of fresh, healthy food in their lives.

Four Sisters Urban Farm

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 with food sovereignty resources, and serves as an educational site with workshops and events throughout the growing season. Programming at the farm works to connect neighbors back with the land and their food directly. The Urban Farm has been successful in developing a medicine garden for community members to use, bringing traditional food workshops to the community like maple syrup tapping, hosting an annual seedling giveaway, and building a youth summer internship program for students to learn about urban Native food sovereignty. 

Four Sisters Urban Growers Collective

In 2024, the Four Sisters team created the Four Sisters Urban Growers Collective. This program supports urban agriculture, creates access to healthy and culturally meaningful foods, and builds cross-community connections. The Urban Growers Collective is a collaborative approach to providing equitable economic opportunity for growers by bringing their produce to our farmers market. By offering a greater selection of healthy foods from a broader range of growers, the Four Sisters Urban Growers Collective increases market participation and helps to combat food disparities within the urban Indigenous community.