Resources

You can find NHFI boundary that defines NHFI eligibility.

NHFI resources and tools:

Gardens: NACC’s most popular program! Contact us to apply!

Tower Garden Program:

Juice Plus Resource Guide
Tower Garden Program – Welcome Package:
Tower Garden Program Newsletter:
Tower Garden Program – Welcome Package:

Beekeeping:

NACC Beekeeping Program Application: Contact us!
Beekeeper Registration Form and more from Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development
Beekeeping Manual
Bee Maid Bee Store

Chickens / Poultry:

NACC Chicken Program Application: Contact us!
Poultry Manuals
Berg’s Hatchery
Cluck and Quack Club
Premises with poultry must complete a premises identification application. Read more.
More Poultry: Turkeys, Ducks, Geese
- Poultry Production in Saskatchewan Resources

Other NHFI Eligible Activities (examples: Mushrooms, berries, fish canning, hunting, gathering):

Start a Food Project Form
The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation.

Resources for Community Food Champions:

Workshops:

Seed Starting:

Starting Seeds Indoors
Note: For most crops, you should start seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before your last spring frost date. This gives the plants plenty of time to grow large and healthy enough to survive their eventual transplanting to the garden.
Planting dates for spring and fall (adjust for the last frost in your area).

Fruit Trees:

Easy Steps for Planting Fruit
Fruit Crops for Northern Manitoba
Video on How to Plant Trees in Northern Manitoba: https://youtu.be/RNWQOWI1WYs

Food Preservation Resources:

Dehydration Nations Facebook Group Page
Dehydration Nations Zine PDF: Out to Dry Zine
How to Make Jam
Freezing Fruit
Pressure Canning Meat – This video demonstrates the steps for pressure canning meat such as bear, beef, pork, venison, lamb, veal, venison, chicken, duck, turkey or rabbit: Pressure Canning Meat

Fruit Trees

Easy Steps for Planting Fruit
Fruit Crops for Northern Manitoba
Video on How to Plant Trees in Northern Manitoba: https://youtu.be/RNWQOWI1WYs

Agricultural Resources:

Training Videos: Manitoba Agriculture has a variety of videos on their YouTube channel Northern Gardening Playlist. Topics include canning, planting trees, hyrdroponics, pests, chickens and much more!
Alberta Agriculture and Forestry: https://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app08/showpublications?ttype=YG
Raising Meat Rabbits in Alberta: https://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app08/ppslogin?pID=287
Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (fact sheets): Pruning Fruit Trees (gov.on.ca)

NHFI Reporting:

Northern Healthy Foods Initiative’s (NHFI) vision is for people to define their own food systems to access healthy foods in northern Manitoba. NHFI is administered and managed by Government of Manitoba Department of Indigenous and Northern Relations (Read more about NHFI here).
- Northern Healthy Foods Initiative Public Report (2017)
Submit your community Annual Report here : Link
Submit your In-Kind Report here: Link

NHFI Funding Partners:

The Northern Manitoba Food, Culture and Community Collaborative (NMFCCC) is an innovative collaborative of northern community people, northern advisors, funders and organizations working together to foster healthier and stronger communities in Northern Manitoba, through improved access to healthy foods and the development of resilient local economies.
Healthy Together Now (HTN) is a community-led, regionally coordinated and government supported, grassroots program to help prevent chronic disease in Manitoba. Projects are planned and led by individual communities while the Manitoba government and regional health authorities provide funding, support and training.
Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba (AITC-M) If you’re looking for resources for teachers in your communities, or perhaps for some of your own programming, I encourage you to check out Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba (AITC-M). Their objective is to deliver curriculum-based programs, activities and resources for teachers and their students to learn more about agriculture and the role it plays in our province. Many of their resources and programs match up very closely with the activities and programs of the Northern Healthy Foods Initiative. AITC-M has lesson plans, free downloads, learning kits, games, recipes and more. Some are free to download and some are available for purchase at reasonable prices. Perhaps these are supplies your organization might provide to your community teachers.
Looking for ideas: Check out NACC NHFI community projects by seeing what others have accomplished in their communities through the 2023 NACC NHFI Newsletter: NACC NHFI Newsletter