In the Cree community of Chisasibi, a non-profit organization called Nihtaauchin aims to contribute to the self-sufficiency and sustainable management of food, water and green energy production systems. It seeks to combine innovation with the ancestral expertise of the Eeyou.
Committed since 2014 to food security and sovereignty for the Cree Nation of Chisasibi, the organization began with workshops on healthy eating and initiation to gardening with the three daycares in Chisasibi, including the preparation of garden beds and indoor seeding.
In 2016, they began developing a community greenhouse followed by the implementation of training courses (planting seeds, transplanting, fertilizing, harvesting, winter preparations and composting while applying traditional Cree knowledge and techniques). They also launched an organic food waste collection and composting project with local produce retailers, which led to the establishment of a composting plant.
Finally, an experimental potato crop was launched.
