Sharon Sandman has over 20 years’ experience in agriculture, community gardening, ranching, as well as collaborating with various entities to promote Indigenous food sovereignty. Her work focuses on implementing agricultural practices to achieve self-sufficiency in growing healthy fruits and vegetables, while seeking to bring back the tools of Native cultivation and restoring traditional practices among grassroots farmers and their families.
Her work has included implementing community and family gardens, educational workshops to support farmers and ranchers in best practices, and efforts to combat climate change. She works closely with Navajo Farmers and ranchers to support solutions to improve the land, livestock and farming practices to bring produce production to sustain families and promote healthy eating habits. More recently, as a key member of the MUTTON-HF program team, she partners with local Navajo farmers and ranchers and the Indian Health Service to help support reclaiming traditional foods and revitalizing local Native food systems for food is medicine initiatives.
