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Farm to Fork Festival
Taste. Learn. Inspire. A food gathering in Jackson Hole.

PRESENTERS

Patti Baldes

Workshop Presenter

Patti Baldes (Northern Arapaho/Northern Paiute), was born on the Big Pine Paiute Reservation in California and raised on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Baldes is an enrolled Northern Arapaho with Northern Paiute lineage. She lives on the Wind River Reservation with her husband and they share four children. Baldes is currently the Executive Director of a tribal non-profit, the Wind River Native Advocacy Center. She works closely and collaborates with other local non-profits, focusing on conservation, tribal sovereignty, self-determination and relationships. Baldes enjoys sharing her story and conservation experiences through her photography line dubbed, Patti with an Eye. She has been sharing photos for close to 20 years.  Baldes’ focus has and will continue to be the Buffalo, restoring them to and increasing tribal lands, sharing her talents through art, photography and storytelling. Baldes also produces and participates in an exhibit called, REMATRIATE. This exhibit shares the connection to buffalo through art, song and dance, focusing on the matriarchal role and how it benefits the land and community we all share.

John Mionczynski

workshop presenter

John is an ethnobotanist and retired wildlife consultant who lives in the historic mining town of Atlantic City, Wyoming.  John has led field trips and taught classes in ethnobotany and natural history for the Native Science Field Center at the Fort Washakie School in Fort Washakie, WY. He has taught for the Teton Science School in Kelly, Central Wyoming Community College in Riverton, National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, Family Medicine Residency Program (through the University of Wyoming) and for the Wyoming Outdoor Council in Lander – as well as other venues.

Mionczynski has worked on the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study, Interagency Studies of Bighorn Sheep, and numerous other research projects, and is co-founder of the Native Memory Project. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Bighorn Restoration Group based in Lander. John also functions as ethnobotanist for the Shoshone Ancestral Food-Gathering Group on the Wind River Reservation.

Jenna Barnes

Workshop presenter

Jenna Barnes is an active travel guide, herbalist and plant-based chef. She is the creatrix of Parakalo Provisions: catering wellness retreats, curating al fresco pop-up meals, and blending herbal teas. After working on numerous organic farms, exploring the cuisine of over 20 countries, and studying herbal medicine + wildcrafting, she weaves these supportive plants into the meals and tells the stories of culinary traditions from around the world through the vibrant food she creates. 

Jenna believes that food is a ritual and that a meal is medicine. We are all part of nature, and she brings that connection and purpose to the plate and into the mug for a deeply nourishing and healing experience.