...you make the best of what's still around... This a classic rock title, released by the Police a short time before I was born. It...

The traditional 13-month Choctaw calendar is based on the phases of the moon. The season we are currently in is known as Hoponi Hvshi,...

For people who depend on the productivity of the land for their livelihood, drought is a fact of life. When drought gets bad, life may...

With hardly a cloud in the sky for the past month, the unstoppable summer sun has progressively dried out and heated up the ground. Then...

It’s one of our favorite seasons at Nan Awaya Farm: the sand plum harvest is upon us! These colorful gems of bold, native flavor can’t...

With COVID restrictions fully lifted, our work pace at Choctaw Nation has been frenetic this spring. That's left only a few hours...

Fire is one of the oldest and most effective tools that humans have for managing the land. The Indigenous peoples of North America began...

Our part of the world doesn't get winter weather every single year. Over the past couple of days, though, we've been blessed with ice,...

Warning this post contains some graphic content- This photo was taken by LA Huffman in eastern Montana in 1880. It captures one of the...

After record-warm temperatures in December, we're finally enjoying our first taste of real winter weather this weekend. First thing this...

For several years now, we’ve been actively working to restore the native landscapes of Nan Awaya Farm. One of the things the experience...

A traditionally tanned buffalo robe is something pretty special. If any single thing can embody the connection between people, the...

The sassafras tree, kvfi in the Choctaw language, has been a part of the American landscape for a very long time. 65 million years ago,...

It was a little bit like the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock movie... We use an electric fence to keep the herd buffalo on our farm. An...

Gideon Lincecum was a naturalist, healer, and free-thinker. In 1819, he moved his family to Columbus, Mississippi, on the border of the...

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma recently opened its cultural center in Durant. Through it, the Choctaw people completed a dream that...

From my earliest memory and again today, Sunday evening is the night to take out the trash. I've gotten to take out the trash while...

One of the joys of fall when I was growing up was getting to experience the monarch migration. With the first hint of cool in the air,...

Tomorrow is Earth Day! We'd like to honor the day by sharing our household's experience of trying something new in '21 that was a little...

Those of you who have been following our blog for a while know that Nan Awaya Farm is about more than raising buffalo. One of our goals...