Sakari Farms

Sakari Farms is 100% women-owned and enrolled Native-owned — a distinction that matters, because it shapes everything about how this farm operates, what it grows, and who it serves.

Located in the high desert of Central Oregon, Sakari Farms is one of the rare places in this country where Native American First Foods are not just remembered but actively cultivated. The farm grows specialty tribal peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, herbs, and one-of-a-kind native flowers — varieties with deep ancestral roots that most of us will never find at a grocery store, because industrial agriculture was never designed to carry them forward.

Sakari also houses the PNW Tribal Seed Bank, a living archive dedicated exclusively to regional and national Tribal Members, and stewards the PNW Tribal Agricultural Food Guide. This is food sovereignty in practice.

Their farming philosophy is both ancient and rigorous: organic and biodynamic growing practices, regenerative native farming, indigenous fire management, reduced tillage, composting, succession planting, and research-based cover crops — alongside serious soil fertility work, pollinator and riparian habitat management, and ancestral tribal seed use. They offer on-farm technical assistance and classes, extending their knowledge to other tribal farmers and growers.

What strikes us most about Sakari Farms is their guiding ethos: Learning is Leading. They describe putting other tribal members and community partners in front of their own business interests — not as a feel-good gesture, but as a genuine operating principle. Opportunity shared is knowledge multiplied.

Foodocracy has proudly partnered with Sakari Farms for many years and thanks to the generosity of our community we have funded native food education programs on the farm.