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Longshadows teaches homesteading through Grow Oklahoma!
Cherokee Phoenix

BY STACIE BOSTON Senior Multimedia Reporter

Aug 2025

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“Grow Oklahoma! strives to teach people to take very small to medium-sized pieces of land – I’m talking maybe a half an acre up to … five acres – and teach them how to plant, grow and preserve food, how to forage for food, how to hunt, how to fish, how to be self-sustainable,” Camp said. “That includes building a community so that not one family has to do everything because that’s not how the Cherokee lived. Gadugi (working together) was very important to us.”

The percentage of people who hold the knowledge of how to live on the land is alarmingly small. We hope to change that with our teachings and programs.

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Brian of Longshadows Ranch with a chicken!Protectors: Homestead and mid-size chicken farms
Cherokee Phoenix

June 2025

In this two-part series, the Cherokee Phoenix speaks with local water protectors and chicken farmers to help tell their stories and shed light on their efforts to help keep the water and land clean. Something they say is often overlooked by the commercial poultry industry. In part two, we speak with Cherokee-owned Longshadows Ranch and non-Native owned Prairie Creek Farms. Both share their efforts on how they raise chickens on grass, a different manner than what is typically seen with large poultry operations. They both believe there are more environmentally friendly as well as animal welfare conscious ways to raise chickens, and they’re doing the work at their respective establishments to make it happen.
 
This story has been supported by the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems. For more information, visit solutionsjournalism.org.

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Sophia cheese tdp‘Day cheese’ popular for centuries, home crafters say
Tahlequah Daily Press,  Lee Guthrie

May 15, 2025

The art of cheese making isn’t as difficult as one might think, and the widely-loved product can be made in a home kitchen, and even sold to… Read More

 
Cherokee Nation CCO highlights Longshadows Ranch

October 2024 – We’re highlighting another amazing Cherokee Community Organization: Longshadows Ranch, a 17-acre homestead teaching farm, which is learning and passing on traditional Cherokee lifeways to those who live in Hulbert and the surrounding community. ❤️

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Longshadows Ranch continues path of food sustainability, teaching others…

HULBERT – Cherokee Nation citizen Eli Camp and her family continues to find new ways to help Cherokees and those in the community connect to sustainable lifeways and food sources at their non-profit teaching homestead farm and ranch located between Hulbert and Wagoner near Fort Gibson Lake.

STACIE BOSTON Senior Multimedia Reporter |

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