Truly local foods

Fifty growers across the region are growing and sharing traditional Abenaki foods through the Abenaki Seeds Project, a partnership among the Abenaki Trails Project, Kearsarge Food Hub, Hopkinton Historical Society and the Warner Public Market. The truly local foods being produced include flint corn for cornmeal, Abenaki rose corn, skunk pole beans, true red cranberry beans and crookneck squash.

The produce is distributed through the Abenaki Helping Abenaki food pantry in Contoocook. Abenaki chefs prepared some of the foods for a tasting event in celebration of Indigenous People’s Day in October. The project was launched in 2021 to support the local indigenous community with culturally appropriate foods. A Foundation grant has helped support operations.