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What We’ve Already Built — Without Dedicated Funding

As we step into 2026, we want to be clear about what already exists—and what your support helps make possible.

Over the past year, operating largely without dedicated program funding, we moved this work from concept into lived, land-based practice. Through ethical harvesting, processing, cooking, teaching, and community sharing, we provided approximately 4,550 meals to the community. 

Alongside this, we:
  • Ethically harvested and processed approximately 80 fallow deer over 12 months, part-time
  • Delivered hands-on workshops in deer processing, hide and buckskin work, drum-making, and land-based cooking
  • Shared food, skills, and knowledge through community meals, small group learning, and informal mentorship
  • Coordinated closely with growers, eaters, and producers through Mayne Island Growers, strengthening local food relationships and seasonal planning

This work was done carefully, relationally, and at a human scale—without permanent infrastructure, without paid staff, and without the ability to train others at the pace the work now requires.
That constraint is precisely why sponsorship matters.

What Your Support Makes Possible:
Funding does not replace the work—we are already doing it.
Funding allows us to teach, mentor, and replicate it, so that responsibility does not rest on a small number of people indefinitely.

Your support helps us:
  • Train and mentor others to ethically harvest, process, cook, preserve, and steward food systems
  • Build shared skills and coordination capacity so this work can be carried by many, not a few
  • Develop durable community infrastructure (tools, training pathways, coordination time) rather than one-off events
  • Reduce burnout while increasing impact, continuity, and resilience
  • Strengthen local food and stewardship systems in alignment with Mayne Island Growers and regional partners

In short, sponsorship allows this work to scale through people, not extraction—by building knowledge, capability, and shared responsibility that compound over time.

Why This Matters Now

We are at a transition point.
The work has proven its value. The demand is clear.
What’s missing is the capacity to train others, formalize pathways, and create the conditions for long-term stewardship rather than constant improvisation.
Your contribution supports that shift—from doing everything ourselves,
to building a community that knows how to do this well, together.

We began this work in November 2023, self-funded and participant-funded from the start.
In September 2025, we formally registered as a non-profit society.
Charitable status — and tax receipts — take time.
Until then, community support helps cover real, practical needs so the work can continue without relying on an unsustainable operating model.

​Think of this page as a registry for land-based work.

the registry
Hunting & Harvest Gear
  • Ammunition 
  • Arrowheads
  • Thermal monocular
  • Trail camera
  • Headlamps & safety gear
Processing, Preservation & Fire
  • Flat of mason jars
  • Vac-seal bags & packaging supplies
  • Nitrile gloves
  • Freezer bags
  • Wood for the fire
  • Knives
  • Extra-large cutting boards
Art, Culture & Craft
  • Commission a painted drum for an Organization
    (hand drums 14”-24”, large drums, 36”, and pow wow drums 36”
  • Commission an unpainted hand drum
  • Salt for hide-tanning fur on
  • 30% hydrogen peroxide for European skull mounts
  • Commission an art installation or mural
(Commissions support the work and result in a tangible piece.)
People & Access
  • Sponsor someone to attend a workshop
  • Sponsor an Indigenous participant
  • Cover travel expenses for people coming from off-island
  • Sponsor a place to stay
Capacity & Backbone
  • Help us write a grant
  • Introduce us to an aligned funder or investor
  • Offer a dry space for hide work
  • Access to a commercial kitchen for workshops
  • Storage space for tools and materials
  • Vehicle repairs
​The Small Stuff
  • Coffee to keep us going
  • A meal on a long hunting and processing day
  • Fuel for hauling and pickups
Fundraising & Amplification
  • Host or sponsor a small fundraiser
  • Share this work with people who care about land, culture, and stewardship so we can fill our workshops or connect with advisory partners

Ways to Support
  • Contribute toward a specific item
  • Sponsor a person, material, or commission
  • Offer in-kind support or access
  • Make an introduction or connection

land acquisition & long-term stewardship
We are seeking an aligned angel investor to support land acquisition for permanent land-based programming, stewardship, and education.
This is not a donation ask.

It is a long-term, values-aligned investment in land held and stewarded for the public good.
We have a detailed land, governance, and stewardship package available and are happy to share it with serious, aligned parties.