Indigenous Sustainable Food Systems

Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree

Status: In Development

Imagine earning a degree that not only prepares you for a career, but also gives you the chance to make a real difference in your community and in the world around you. This program is designed to help you develop the knowledge and hands-on skills you’ll need to support food sovereignty, strengthen communities, boost local economies, and help restore the land in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities across Canada.

Learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom here—you’ll also spend time on the land, guided by Indigenous knowledge keepers and teachers from across Turtle Island. You’ll explore areas like seed care and seed saving, sustainable gardening, foraging for natural foods and medicines, improving soil and water health, and traditional practices in fishing and hunting.

You’ll also get to learn in FNTI’s newly built greenhouse, which was created specifically to support this degree. The greenhouse will give you the chance to see firsthand how Indigenous communities can respond to challenges like climate change and food security. You’ll work with a wide variety of plants—agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture crops—that will open your eyes to new ideas, tastes, and possibilities.

By the time you graduate, you’ll not only have a degree—you’ll have an even deeper relationship with food, the environment, and the Earth itself.Are you interested? Keep informed with the most up to date information by filling out our interest form.

*Haudenosaunee is an Indigenous term for ‘People of the Longhouse’ who are known as the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English. The confederacy is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.