New: Weekend Brunch

WÉTU • SPRING MENU
Spring is here! NEW menu. Plant-WATHÓTHO • Game-THADÓ • To Share-WAKSÍKA THANKA • Sweet-SKÚYA • Sauces-IYÚDTHUN

NEW BOOK! by Sean Sherman

Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 150 ancestral and modern recipes from three-time James Beard Award-winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman.

All preorder copies from Birchbark Books will be signed by Sean Sherman.

New: Weekend Brunch

WÉTU • SPRING MENU
Spring is here! NEW menu. Plant-WATHÓTHO • Game-THADÓ • To Share-WAKSÍKA THANKA • Sweet-SKÚYA • Sauces-IYÚDTHUN

NEW BOOK! by Sean Sherman (signed copy)

This summer, we are working in partnership with the Indian Health Board (IHB) to cultivate a medicine garden (mashkiikii gitigan in Anishinaabe) at the 24th St. Urban Garden in Minneapolis. We started clearing out the garden — located across the street from the IHB medical and dental center on East 24th Street — in early May. It’s been a lot of work, but it’s really coming along well. 

The design we have for the garden is the traditional medicine wheel found in most North American Indigenous cultures. The IFL team has been working the garden for the past month, pulling weeds and invasive plants, clearing debris and trash, as well as tilling the soil to prepare for planting. 

We started some seedlings inside the IFL about a month ago, and while some are trickier than others to sow, we’ve had pretty good luck so far and most of them are taking off and are ready to be planted.