Indigenous communities regard traditional foodways as core components of community health and wellness, yet traditional foods such as those made by fermentation practices are threatened by settler capitalist nation states that continue to legislate away Indigenous People’s rights to ancestral lands and waters. The goals of this transcollege research cluster include curating a year-long series of convergence research activities that center radical and relational Indigenous knowledges and ways of fermenting foods. Ultimately, this cluster seeks to unsettle and expand dominant modes of knowledge production in food science research in ways that advances food sovereignty, an issue of urgent global significance for all peoples. The cluster has events scheduled on January 26 and 28, Feb 11, 24 and 25. Visit the Radical Fermentation website [https://radicalfermentation.ucdavis.edu/] for full information on their activities.
