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One Christmas our family chose to exchange consumable gifts. Theme baskets are fun to create and to eat! The last healing secret of food message encourages us to eat foods produced close to home, in as close to their natural state as possible and sourced with concern for the earth and for workers. This post offers ideas for optimal local foods good for health, the earth and the community.

This fall Wild Rice Salad is refreshing and full of nutrients. In this Season of Creation, Native people have much to teach about their sacred relationship to food, such as wild rice, manoomin or “good berry” and to the clean, cool water she depends upon.

Have you been asked to bring a “dish to pass” this Thanksgiving?  Consider  Native American ingredients like wild rice, root vegetables, maple syrup, and more that are native to northern Wisconsin and the Americas.  This easy salad is adaptable to any root veggies you enjoy!  It adds color and carries the sacred story of people who have lived and cared for this land so long.

Discover the taste and heartiness of wild rice in a recipe for "Wild Rice Soup". Learn how this sacred food has been a ceremony, social interaction, security and medicine for the body and soul of many tribal people around the Great Lakes for generations.