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A hand holds an olive branch at the Séka Hills olive grove. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation"

Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

Season 3 Episode 3
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Cheryl Seidner and other members of the Wiyot tribe at a hearing for Terra-Gen's wind farm proposal. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot"

Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot

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Someone reaching into the water at Bonanza Spring in the Mojave Desert. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Preserving the Desert with the NALC"

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Season 3 Episode 2
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Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Season 3 Episode 4
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Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

S3 E4: Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Season 3 Episode 4
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Harry Williams, a Bishop Paiute elder and environmental activist. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Managing Groundwater with the Paiute"

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Water moving slowly across an irrigation garden. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Managing Groundwater with the Paiute"

Running Ditches and Slowing Water: Paiute People Adapt Traditions to Modern-Day Gardens

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Paiute People Adapt Traditions to Modern-Day Gardens

Paiute People Adapt Traditions to Modern-Day Gardens

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How Los Angeles Dried Up Owens Valley’s ‘Indian Ditches’

How Los Angeles Dried Up Owens Valley’s ‘Indian Ditches’

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Aerial rendering of river under restoration. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Restoring the River with the Yurok, Hupa and Karuk"

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Tending Nature

Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (Preview)

Local food production and deep knowledge of plant diversity sustained the Yocha Dehe people of California’s Capay Valley for millennia. Spanish colonization and the Gold Rush changed this drastically but the tribe is reclaiming its land. Using olives, a fruit of Spanish colonization, the Yocha Dehe people are combining ecological knowledge with modern science to rethink agri-business.