IOES Oidag Planting Day - 5pm Oct 16th

Wednesday, October 16th: Bring the whole family to the Indian Oasis Elementary Oidag for our community winter planting day! We will be planting beets, carrots, i'itoi onions, o'odham peas, and more! Squash and cheese and wheat popovers will be served under the watho. Come take part in helping grow the wonderful oidag that so many students love to learn in..and eat from! We will start planting at 5 PM and stay until the sun goes down.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=567219099999941&set=a.138994146155774.43102.137202393001616&type=1&theater

Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA)

NAFSA, whose 22 founding members include TOCA's 2 co-founders, Terrol Dew Johnson and Tristan Reader, has started its own Facebook page. Read their Call to Action and meet the founding members!  Link: https://www.facebook.com/nativefoodalliance?fref=ts

Harvest Festival 2013

We had nearly 600 people at Saturday's Fall Harvest Festival.

Thanks to all our hardworking staff and interns!  

TOCA's Facebook page will soon have photos:
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/TOCA-Tohono-Oodham-Community-Action/137202393001616?fref=ts

TOCA's Farmers in AZ Daily Star

A feature story in the Arizona Daily Star featured TOCA's Beginning Farmer Training Program as one solution to the challenges facing the Tohono O'odham Nation.  The article features TOCA Farm Apprentice Vernal Sam and other TOCA staff who are working to revitalize Tohono O'odham farming as an important for of empowerment, economic development, health promotion.... as a way of life.  Additional photos of TOCA's farmers in action are also featured in a photo gallery as well.

This article was published two other articles, one examining some of the poverty challenges faced on the Reservation and another on improving graduation rates on the Reservation.

TOCA Online Shop Open

Are you looking for traditional Tohono O'odham foods?  A special gift?  Native Foodways Magazine?

If so, TOCA's new online shop is the place for you!  Featuring exclusive Pendleton blankets, hand-crafted baskets, jewelry and original artwork, 100% of the proceeds from all sales support TOCA's continuing work to create a healthy, culturally vital, and sustainable community.

Native Foodways Magazine Released

The Premiere Issue of TOCA's Native Foodways Magazine has been released.  Check out the magazine website: www.nativefoodways.org.

I'itoi Ki Pendleton Now Available Online

TOCA's exclusive I'itoi Ki (Man in the Maze) Pendleton blanket is once again available.  Designed by TOCA and produced by Pendleton Woolen Mill – maker of Indian trade blankets for over a century – the blanket is available exclusively through TOCA.  It is available in person at TOCA's Desert Rain Gallery or through our online store: http://www.tocaonline.org/shop.html.