Progress 07/01/15 to 06/30/16

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Target Audience:American Indian agriculture producers and tribal food consumers on the Walker River Paiute, Duck Valley Shoshone Paiuteand Pyramid Lake PaiuteReservations in Nevada. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Growing Local; Education and Risk Management for Hoop House Production (Hoop House Monitoring) Topics Covered Hoop House Management Soils Construction & Ventilation Irrigation Crops Hoop House Construction Update of Current Reservation Projects Funding For Hoop Houses Individual Hoop House Visits Locations Duck Valley Reservation Elko Band of Temoke Southfork Band of Temoke Battle Mountain Band of Temoke Ely Tribe Duckwater Tribe Yomba Tribe McDermitt Pyramid Lake Walker River Yerington How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The funding and administration duties were combined with the Mineral County application to secure additional funding to allow the Veggies For Kids to expand to a summer program. Our FRTEP assisted in providing the cultural foods lessons and in constructing and maintaining the hoop houses utilized in this program. Our program constructed three hoop houses at the elementary school sites where the Veggies For Kids program is presented with the inclusion of using the hoop house as part of the Veggies For Kids curriculum. Included sites were the Smith Valley Elementary School, Yerington Elementary School, and the Schurz Elementary School. The Veggies for Kids program objectives directly support healthy eating, as its intent is to promote increased intake of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, water and nutrient dense beverages; and increase appreciation and use of healthy traditional Native American and Hispanic foods, and an introduction to vegetable growing concepts and experiences. The program was successfully implemented in Mineral County (Hawthorne Elementary: 73 students; and Schurz Elementary: 32 students), Washoe County (Natchez Elementary: 62 students; and Robert Mitchell: 65 students), Lyon County (Yerington Elementary: 178 students and Smith Valley Elementary: 32 students), and Elko County (Owyhee Elementary: 120 students). There was a total of 562 students in 2016 and are in the process of compiling the numbers for 2017. Summer institutes were held at all sites, incorporating the educational themes of Veggies for Kids. In addition, summer institutes taught children how to plant, grow, and care for their own home grown vegetables, with each child planting starter seeds and taking their plants home at the end of the week. Nevada FRTEP presented the Lesson 9 (Native Foods) to 442 students < ><!-- -->< ><!-- -->< > VEGGIES FOR SENIORS The Nevada FRTEP program collaborated with Mineral County Cooperative Extension for the delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables to senior citizens and disabled residents on the Walker River Reservation. This program was a 13 week program in effect from July to October. Below are 2016 numbers and 2017 numbers will be listed after the program ends in October 2017. Total persons served 43 Native Female 24 x 13 = 312 Native Male 15 x 13 = 195 Non Native Female 3 x 13 = 39 Non Native Male 1 x 13 = 13 Total Contacts 559 What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Additional monitoring and training of existing hoop house participant individuals and organizations.

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What was accomplished under these goals? Informing the Native American farmers and ranchers of available USDA programming to further the sustainability of agricultural operations located on the various Indian Reservations located in Nevada. Conducting hoop house construction, maintenance, and sustainability workshops on eight reservations in Nevada. The hoop houses constructed during this past year were upgraded to include metal frame hoops and increasing the thickness of the plastic from 6 mil to a 12 mil thickness.This portion of our program activity is in a constantly increasing demand, as can be seen from the additional hoop houses constructed this year. Additional hoop houses were constructed in 2016 and 2017 were: Walker River (3) Pyramid Lake (3) replaced PVC with Metal Hoop Kits Duck Valley (1) replaced the existing PVC version with a larger Metal Kit Duckwater (1) Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation (3) Mineral County Elementary School (1) Ely (1) Hungry Valley (1) Yerington Paiute Tribe (1) National Association of Resource Conservation & Development Councils (NARC&DC) annual meeting July 10 - 13, 2016 in Reno, Nevada. Presented our Hoop House Construction and Monitoring Program The FRTEP funding is used as a base, to secure additional collaboration and funding sources to assist in achieving the objectives set forth above, as the funding allocated through FRTEP is not sufficient for desired programming

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Progress 07/01/14 to 06/30/15

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Target Audience:The target audience are the tribal members and residents located on the Duck Valley, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake Indian Reservations to increase the porfitability and sustainability of Indian Ag producers and to imporve the health and well being of the populations of each reservation. Farmers receiving training in riskmanagement, drought mitigation, drought monitoring formulation, and hoop house management were 318. In school youth receiving cultural food awareness lessons were 562. Changes/Problems:The ongoing exceptional drought and drought transition in Nevada has required additional workshops, consultations, and presentations on the risk management and planning elements to mitigate the effects of the drought and a decrease of agricultural revenue on Nevada Indian Reservations. Hay and cattle revenue have fallen to about half of what was received in 2014. Sustaining current agricultural operations is a concern. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Risk Management, cultural preservation and drought workshops provided training to not only tribal producers but also USDA agency officials working in Indian country and other colleges within the University of Nevada, providing and insight to Indian Country issues and challenges. The FRTEP national professional development conference was held in Nevada focusing on professional development in the areas of both youth and adult program development skill building to enhance program development in sustainable agriculture production, youth development and adult an youth nutrition for 17 Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program participants. The Nevada FRTEP program was instrumental in hosting this event. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?FRTEP educators maintain ongoing communication with tribal officials in Nevada tageted reservation areas. Monitoring visits to assist local hoop house and garden producers pro0vides feedback and technical assistance to stakeholders. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Increased emphasis will be placed upon drought education and assistance as well as close collaboration with USDA partners through the Strike Force Iniative. A planning effort will be pursued to keep the Duck Valley Farmers Market a sustainable activity and be used as a model for other reservation farmers markets on Nevada reservations. Continuation of our hoop house monitoring program is also an important part of accomplishing goals.

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What was accomplished under these goals? The Nevada FRTEP program have constructed ten hoop houses during 2015 and with an additonal four at elementary schools to enhance our existing Veggies For Kids program. In addition to the hoop houses , Nevada FRTEP has also established a series of hoop house monitoring visits to the reservatins with hoop houses which identify hoop house challenges with growers and offering suggestions to correct issues. The monitoring visits have met with great success and are planned to become an ongoing program activity. The first ever Duck Valley Farmers Market was initiated in 2015, with the produce grown in local hoop houses providing the incentive for the creation of the market. The state of Nevada has continued to be designated a drought disaster area, with areas of exceptional and extreme drought located throughout the state. A ground water level monitoring system is being developed by the State of Nevada that may limit ground water usuage for agricultural irrigation. This crisis has prompted immediate identification of various challenges facing Nevada reservations and possible solutions for reducing the effects of the drought. A series of meetings/workshops was conducted for identifying possible USDA and other funding sources to address the problems, aid in the implementation of programs, and to utilize insurance programs applicable to certain areas and crops.

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Progress 07/01/13 to 06/30/14

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Target Audience:Farmers trained in risk management and drought mitigation were 385. In school youth trained in nutrition were 713. After school program youth trained in nutrition and gardening were 125. 192 tribal members received health outreach education. 60 tribal agricultural producers received financial literacy education. Changes/Problems:The ongoing exceptional drought in Northern Nevada has required additional workshops, consultations and presentations on the risk management and planning elements to mitigate the effects of drought in Nevada's Northern Reservations. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Cultural preservation and drought workshops provided training to not only tribal producers but also USDA agency officials working in Indian Country. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?FRTEP educators maintain ongoing communication with tribal officials in Northern Nevada. Monitoring visits to assist local hoop house and garden producers provides feedback and technical assistance to stakeholders. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Increased emphasis will be placed on drought education and assistance as well as close collaboration with USDA partners through the Strike Force Initiative.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Ten community gardens and twenty one home gardens were established on Western Shoshone and Paiute Reservations in Northern Nevada. Twelve cultural preservation workshops focusing on traditional foods were held in Northrern Nevada Reservations. 410 second and third grade students received nutrition education with pre and post testing demonstrating significant knowedge gain and behavioral changes in regard to eating healthy. Drought, risk management and financial literacy workshops assisted reservation producers in maintaining viable agricultural enterprises.

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