ROSEBUD BEAR SCHNEIDER
she/her
Co-Director, Education and Engagement
Rosebud is an enrolled Citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, recognized descendant of the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewas and Eastern Shawnee Tribe of OK and Purepecha peoples.
Born and raised in Southwest Detroit, she is a farmer, producer and community organizer. Her involvement with indigenous food sovereignty work spans over the last 15 years; first as a breastfeeding educator and community health worker and home visitor with Healthy Start and WIC and then as a farmer and nutrition educator with the Sacred Roots food sovereignty project in Detroit. Her time with Sacred Roots illuminated the passion Rosebud has to feed and care for her community.
She also expanded her roots throughout the Detroit Agriculture network as a farmer and former board member at Keep Growing Detroit and completed MSU’s Organic Farmers Training Program in 2017.
Rosebud spent three seasons as the market manager, farmer and food producer for Minogin and Ziibimijwang, a tribally owned indigenous food hub located in Mackinaw City. She is now the Vice-Chair on the Ziibimijwang Board of Directors.
Currently, she is the co-director of Education and Engagement at Keep Growing Detroit, a non-profit urban farm with the mission to cultivate a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits.
As an Anishnaabe farmer and producer here in this community, she continues to provide traditional foods across turtle island. Rosebud remains dedicated to supporting the health and wellness of our community by educating on the importance of revitalizing Indigenous foodways. Her lifelong goal is to give her children and the coming generations the knowledge and skills to live a well-rounded healthy life woven with our ancestral ways.
Photo credit: Sarah Rypma Photography LLC for the 10 Cents A Meal For Michigan's Kids & Farms