How can generations of Indigenous knowledge help communities respond to a changing climate? From Hopi farmlands to Menominee forests and Native Hawaiian food forests, this documentary explores how Indigenous stewardship connects healthy ecosystems with food security, community well-being, and responsibility to future generations. Hopi farmer Michael Kotutwa Johnson brings agricultural knowledge into dialogue with academic science, highlighting the value of knowledge rooted in place. Menominee forest managers demonstrate an approach that balances selective timber harvesting with biodiversity, local employment, and clean water. In Hawaii, Native Hawaiian practitioners restore diverse food forests, showing how complementary crops support productive, interconnected growing systems. Returning to Karuk cultural burning and Hopi farming, the program reveals how food gathering, basketry, and intergenerational teaching sustain both ecological knowledge and cultural traditions. Connecting Indigenous studies, environmental science, forestry, and agriculture, Indigenous Climate Solutions: Forests, Food and Community invites viewers to examine how Indigenous leadership and living stewardship practices can strengthen communities and inform responses to environmental change.

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