Agriculture Program Continues Promoting Healthier Lifestyles

In August 2016, Agriculture Program Manager Wally Ransom participated in the Akwesasne Farmers Co-op's first meeting to discuss how their once productive farmlands are now wetlands due to drainage ditches first dug in the 1930's being blocked by beaver dams. Representatives from the Cook, White, Jock, Lazore, Ransom, Boots, Connors, Gray, Oakes and Herne families will be working in cooperation with the Tribe's Agriculture Program to reclaim flooded lands. Combined, they farm more than 1,500 acres of land in Akwesasne's southern portion. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Hoover.