Preserving Lifeway Traditions and Heritage Breeds for a Resilient Future

"The Slow Food Navajo-Churro Sheep Presidium Project: A Collaboration to Ensure Native Food Traditions, Economic and Cultural Survival. The Navajo-Churro Sheep Presidium is a project sponsored by Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity in collaboration with traditional Navajo sheepherders and weavers in order to create a regional market for their holistically raised Navajo-Churro lamb meat, in addition to the wool. The goal is to ensure the survival of this once plentiful but now rare breed, while promoting a viable economic future for the traditional Navajo sheepherding lifeways, and the rich culture associated with it. Roy Kady, Jay Begay Jr. and Colleen Biakeddy are the founding producer-members of the project."