Oneida Nation breaks ground on the Oneida Community Cannery, August 15, 2025. PC: Fox 11 Online
ONEIDA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Oneida Nation broke ground on a community cannery to enhance food sovereignty.
The new Oneida Community Cannery is going up at N 7360 Water Circle Place.
At just under 11,000 square feet, the facility will encompass state of the art food preparation and preservation equipment. Community members will be able bring their products in for canning, drying, and processing some of the traditional foods in a safe and healthy manner.
The facility will feature a certified processing facility and a learning kitchen to educate the tribal community on the healing power of food.
The Oneida Cannery currently employs four staff who carry food preservation safety training and licensure.
“We hear the term food sovereignty a lot and we’re kind of given this broad term of the right to people to incorporate and interact with food as they deem fit and for the Oneida Nation, we’ve really taken an aggressive and assertive approach with food being an integral part of our health and wellness approach here,” said Vanessa Miller, food and agriculture manager of Oneida Nation. “This is really a community driven, community-led type programming approach that’s really meant to connect our membership not only back to our foods and food pathways and traditional foods but really to each other and having them take a front, empowering seat to their own health and wellness.”
The new facility is funded by American Rescue Plan Act that the Nation received and delegated to food sovereignty infrastructure.
The project is expected to be completed by July 2026.
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