Grinding Stone Collective:
Honoring Our Past, Nourishing Our Future.

Grinding Stone Collective Inc. is a grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to revitalizing traditional foodways and ecological knowledge through community-driven education, mutual aid, and land stewardship programs. We strengthen Indigenous Food Sovereignty by reconnecting urban and rural Native people to ancestral food systems, land-based practices, and one another. We strive to create new opportunities for Indigenous people to share their stories, values, and history with the larger inter-tribal community and allies.

First Foods Program

A New Day For Old Ways

Our New Day for Old Ways educational series has included 3+ years of class development & production. We focus on Indigenous Food culture, Food Sovereignty, Food Justice, Land Back, and Climate Change through our podcast, social media, and online and in-person classes, all taught by members of our diverse Indigenous communities.

Inter-Tribal Pantry

Inter-Tribal Food Pantry & Co-op is our mutual aid initiative that brings Indigenous food producers and Native communities closer together to provide culturally accessible food products. Through partnerships with indigenous producers, we’ve successfully delivered over 15,681 pounds of food ― including Bison meat, grains, oysters, potatoes, and produce ― for free to indigenous communities.

Stewards

The newly forming Stewards program will create climate solutions through education, indigenous agro-biospheres, terraforming, and land back. We aim to distribute workshops & roundtable discussions covering the impacts of climate change & our fight for visibility, as well as toolkits, seeds, and saplings so we can empower a new generation of Stewards.

Other Programs & Services

GSC is always looking to produce new events and programs that robustly approach the issues facing our communities. We've grown a few new roots through our three branches of change. The projects below expand our reach and overall impact as an organization.