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MISSION — Jennifer Rose Marie Serna, owner of Wapato Island Farms, was one of seven panelists talking about food sovereignty at the Northwest Native Economic Summit at Wildhorse Resort & Casino on the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton.
Serna, whose farm is volunteer-based, focuses on growing herbs for traditional medicines that she learned of through her grandma, her “abuelita.”
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