Poplar Community Garden

05/15/2026

Last year our garden director took part in this event and was one of the featured traditional food presenters. This conference is an excellent one for anyone interested in food sovereignty and all of the amazing health initiatives taking place across our state!

There is still time to register for Healing the Land, Feeding the Spirit, on June 2-3, 2026, at the Billings Depot located in downtown Billings, MT: https://form.jotform.com/253514105292046. This gathering brings together Tribal Nations from across the Rocky Mountain region and beyond to share knowledge centered on traditional foods, food sovereignty, holistic healing, and cultural practices.

This year, we are honored to highlight two Indigenous food trailblazers: Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet) and Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart (Oglala Lakota). Their work uplifts Indigenous foodways, strengthens community health, and carries forward traditions rooted in sovereignty and resilience.

05/06/2026

🌱 What's Up Wednesday! 🌱

We're out refreshing the garden and tending to our little orchard! The fruit trees from Prairie House Gardens we planted last year are starting to bud & bloom!

Check out these apple and plum blossoms! 🌸 The plum blossoms smell divine ✨️

05/02/2026

For the past few years, Prairie House Gardens in Glasgow MT has been graciously donating fruit trees, flowers, vegetable plants, and various other gardening goodies to us at the Fort Peck Tribal Community Garden. Yesterday we went down and helped them straighten up herb beds and flower displays while witnessing ✨️ the cutest forklift ever ✨️ We also went to pick up their donation of ADA compliant planter beds! They're made of cedar and will be an absolutely beautiful and much needed addition to the garden space! It's been my goal to make our garden as accessible to as many people as we can and this helps us with that mission SO much! We strive to alleviate food insecurity and improve the physical, mental, and nutritional health of our community members across the reservation! Now to get them built and find some dirt to fill them 😆

Thank you again, Prairie House Gardens!

04/23/2026

Our garden coordinator will be teaching a wasna class at FPCC's Cultural Arts building on April 26th at 2pm 🫐🍓🌽

04/17/2026

We worked together with the Fort Peck Extension agent Portia to bring this very cool project to life (literally) at the Northside School in Wolf Point! 🥚🐣🐤

Is raising chickens something that you're interested? For meat? For eggs? For pest control? For friends?

Cool note: In the past our garden coordinator would bring her chickens with her to the garden to eat grasshoppers! They would ride to work with her and leave at the end of the day 🐥🦗

03/11/2026

Just a reminder that we're here in Wolf Point this morning and we'll be in Poplar tomorrow!

March is garden season! Join us in Wolf Point and Poplar for hands‑on workshops in garden planning and seed starting—learn how smart gardening can reduce wildfire risk and grow a healthier community.

02/17/2026

Interested in starting your own gardening or produce based side hustle but don't have a space to garden? Consider a space at the community garden! In the meantime, check out this great opportunity for gardeners from Akiptan!

Sign up for Akiptan's 2026 Owóžu Cohort. All levels of gardeners who are interested in building a gardening business plan with the goal of offering value added products may apply. Limited seats available. Open to those 18 years +. Register here: https://shorturl.at/glrMb

02/03/2026

FEB 4TH & 5TH.

We're doing another bison meat giveaway!

FEB 4TH - FRAZER @ 10AM, WOLF POINT @ 1PM.
FEB 5TH - POPLAR @ 10 AM, BROCKTON @ 1PM.

01/30/2026

We did a quiet soft launch of our new kitchen space at the new Commodities building in Poplar. We're still working out some finer details of how we'll best serve our commodity clients while they wait for their distribution. The recipe we served was Pan de Canela, a cinnamon tea cake. We hope you'll give this recipe a try and tell us what you think!

01/22/2026

We weren't as active on social media this year as we have been in the past, but that didn't mean we weren't busy! We hope to make a longer post to catch everyone up on our 2025 accomplishments, and our hopes for 2026. We'd also like to make a new introductory post in the near future to all our new followers to help better explain everything we do!

In the meantime, please enjoy this short video our garden director made. We hope this gives you a glimpse into the rich and varied world of gardening and food sovereignty.