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Old Growth Table
The Old Growth Table is a heartfelt exploration of the rich cultural heritage and culinary traditions of the Coast Salish people. As a Native Foods Nutritionist and Muckleshoot Tribal member, Valerie will guide you through this journey. The OGT delves deep into ancient food wisdom, traditional cooking methods, and the profound spiritual connection we have with our environment.
Old Growth Table
When Food Is a Right, Not a Ration
As SNAP benefits face new political threats, millions of families are being pushed deeper into food insecurity—including many of our Native relatives whose communities already navigate the long-term impacts of colonization on food systems.
In this special All My Relations + Old Growth Table podcast collaboration, Matika Wilbur and Temryss Lane sit down with Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot), a leading Indigenous food systems expert and advocate, to unpack what these proposed cuts mean for Native nations and why food sovereignty is central to our collective survival.
Together, they explore how federal policy shapes daily access to food, the ongoing fight to restore Indigenous foodways, and what it means to nourish our people when systems fail us.
This episode also features on-the-ground field reports from Gray Fox Farm, Suquamish Seafoods, the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA), and professional forager Chai Tobar-Dupres (Cowlitz), offering a rich, real-time look at the work happening across our communities to reclaim sustenance, land, and autonomy.
This is a conversation about power, policy, kinship, and the future of how we feed one another.
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Credits:
Film Production by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez
PA Mandy Yeahpau
Edited by Francisco “Pancho” Sánchez
Produced by Matika Wilbur
Co/hosted by Temryss Lane
Social Media by Katharina Mei-Fa Brinschwitz
We are so grateful to be in collaboration with the team at All My Relations, and to be produced in their new home, Tidelands in downtown Seattle. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who made this show possible! T’igwicid!
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