Food is Our Medicine
Food profoundly impacts health and well-being, holding the potential to improve health equity. Nourish’s Food is Our Medicine showcases the importance of weaving Indigenous foodways into health care to support Truth, Reconciliation, and improved healing for all.
Nourish envisions a future in which the full potential of food as medicine is honoured and realized in our health and food systems.
Nourish’s Food is Our Medicine learning journey guides health care on the importance of culturally mindful food choices and Indigenous foodways in health care menus as a way of advancing Truth and Reconciliation.
Journey through the seasons with six modules full of resources and reflection. There are two different learning paths: self-guided online learning and animated virtual learning circles.
Self-Guided Learning: One Journey, Three Pathways
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For Health Care Organizations
Gain access for your organization to the Food Is Our Medicine: Self-Guided learning journey – plus additional courses, communities of practice, Coolfood climate reports, and evolving resources – with a Nourish Commons Organizational Membership. Click the arrow for details and pricing.
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For Individuals
Food Is Our Medicine: Self-Guided is included in Nourish Commons Individual Professional Membership. Or, sign up for a complimentary Network Membership and access à la carte pricing. Click the arrow for our course catalogue and to register.
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For Indigenous Communities
Full access to the Food is Our Medicine: Self-Guided learning journey is offered for Indigenous communities to support health, well-being, and cultural revitalization. Please click the link to complete the registration form and we’ll follow-up with login details.
Animated Learning: Journeying Together as Kin
With the support of Nourish guides and hosts, the Food is Our Medicine Animated Learning Journey combines live, virtual sessions with self-directed, asynchronous course work in-between.
Take a listen as Sylvi Martin, Food is Our Medicine 2025-26 Kin, shares her reflection upon completing her learning journey.
Come as a team. (Un)learn as a system.
Curious about organizing a bespoke learning journey for your team or organization? Are you a post-secondary learning institution interested in licenses for self-guided or animated offerings? Let’s chat! Please contact us with details of what you are hoping for, including your budget and number of learners.
Program Acknowledgements
Terrelyn Fearn, Glooscap First Nation (Turtle Island Institute)
Melanie Goodchild, Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation (Turtle Island Institute)
Mair Greenfield, Kebaowek First Nation (Nourish)
Tessie Harris, European settler (Nourish Indigenous & Allies Advisory)
Hayley Lapalme, French Canadian settler (Nourish)
Elisa Levi, Chippewas of Nawash First Nation
See current members of the Nourish Indigenous & Allies Advisory.
Briteweb, Digital Agency
Dimitra Chronopoulos, Editor
Brittnay Gauthier, Michipicoten First Nation, Beadwork Artist
RallyRally, Design Studio
Mariah Meawasige, Anishinaabekwe/settler from the northern shores of Lake Huron (Genaabajing (Serpent River First Nation) and Elliot Lake, Designer/Illustrator
“This learning journey means the absolute world to me. It has taught me more about Indigenous foodways, practices, and culture in the last six months than any class I have taken in my 17 years of education. I loved how it was interactive and had a good mix of reading tools and videos.”
Food is Our Medicine Learner
