In Seeds We Trust and Green Revolution

SeedBroadcast and In Seeds We Trust, an installation by artists Joan Baron and Laurie Linquist, will join forces for a public event on the plaza of the Tempe Center for the Arts during the Green Revolution exhibition.

Join us for public SeedBroadcasting and share the stories of your seeds, gardening, and local food passions!

Seed Stories from Pima County Seed Library!

Kelly Wilson , a librarian with the Pima County Library, tells the story of the opening of the Seed Lending Library and the gifting of the gourd.

Kenneth Kokroko, an anthropologist from Tucson, Arizona, shares his thoughts on seeds, seed saving and the connection between nurturing seeds and nurturing family.

Jenai Longstock tells a story about a school experiment of planting seeds in a controlled environment and the effect that had on her and her fellow classmates.

Susan Oates talks about growing native flowers in her backyard and gathering seeds to share at the Pima County Seed Library

Justine Hernandez, a librarian with the Pima County Library talks about integration of seed lending and exchange into their library system.

Pima County----Wide---- Seed Libraries

SeedBroadcast partnered up with the Pima County Seed Libraries at Joel D. Valdez, Main Library on Jacome Plaza, in Tucson, AZ, to share the seed library with passerby's, while packaging seeds, and meeting some of the folks responsible for making this seed library possible.

SeedBroadcast on Jacome Plaza

Librarians join us at the van to package seeds, and discuss seeds, seed libraries, and critical mass.

Librarian, Justine Hernandez helps people make seed balls: using clay, water, and seeds

The Pima County Seed Libraries is now in its second year and operates out of all the 27 branch locations of the Pima County Library System. Seeds are catalogued just like books, allowing patrons of the seed library to get online in their homes or local library branch and select open pollinated seeds via interlibrary loan to be sent to their nearest home library for pick up.

Seeds are cataloged along with all other library materials.

Librarian, Justine Hernandez talks about how the Pima Seed Library was started and how it functions today. 

The seed library is supported through not only the infustructure of the library system, but also the Pima county seed saving community at large. Seed savers bring extra seeds to the library to share. These include native plants, flowers, and vegetables. Some of these generous folks stopped by to visit with SeedBroadcast and share Seed Stories. Charles Bufe, a local gardening aficionado, brought several different types of tomato starts to share....a great seed story in the planting.

Charles Bufe's Zacatiran tomato plants.

We also learned that Tucson has a very broad reaching community garden network. Several of these gardeners showed up to find out more about the SeedBroadcast Seed Story Broadcasting Station and share what is growing in Tucson. This network also extends into the Public School system, which has several gardening projects implementing hands-on educational programs and gardening clubs.

Card catalog housing the seeds, and a wealth of information about growing, saving, and sharing seeds.....and some really awesome librarians!

Thank you Pima County Seed Library and all the folks we met for a wonderful day of Seed Story Broadcasting!

Pima County Seed Libraries!

SeedBroadcast and the Pima County Seed Libraries will be working together on Monday, April 15th, at the main library on Jacome Plaza, in Tucson, Arizona. Stop by to help pack seeds, share seeds and seed stories.

April 15, 2013
Seed Packaging and Story Sharing
Pima County Seed Library
http://www.library.pima.gov/seed-library/

Jacome Plaza
101 N. Stone Ave.
Tucson, Arizona
Time: 10am - 3pm

For more information contact Justine Hernandez:
justine.hernandez@pima.gov
520-594-5564

Seed Stories from Feast on the Street!

Rachel Linden of GMO Free Arizona tells a story from Walter Ritte in Hawaii, of tearing up the patent papers of family and reuniting a kinship with brother taro.

Citlaxochitl Enrique talks about a gift of hopi blue corn seed and her plans to grow this to make food for her family; including the best blue corn mush for her baby.

Sarah Grumbley talks about the Valley Permaculture Alliance Seed Library.

Maggie Leininger shares her project called Weaving the Whole 9 Yards, which investigates cotton and weaving production processes to re-envision an ecologic tapestry in the land, materials, and people of cotton.

Vynnie McDaniels of the Valley Permaculture Alliance and the community gleaner network called Garden Fly, shares a seed story from his garden, while encouraging everyone to see gardens and gardening everywhere in their lives.

Ian Kerstetter shares a seed story about a project he has been working on with a group of fellow students within the UNM Art and Ecology course called Creating Change.

Ariane Glazer talks about Horny Toad Farm, in Phoenix, AZ where she works. She also encourages everyone to support small, local family farms and COOK MORE!

Lorna Henry shares her dream of finding original seeds and starting the Garden Club Village for young women

Judy Newland shares her seed story of being a textile artist and collecting natural pigment materials from the earth and creating sustainable, non-toxic dyes for her projects.

Liesl, with the help of her friends, Sarah and Nicole, shares the story of her father,'s tomatoes and the Wall of water!

Monika Woolsey, from Phoenix talks about her work with Hipveggies.

Thank you all for sharing your seed stories!