SWAP

During 2014, SeedBroadcast will be implementing a project called SWAP, as a series of traveling Seed Story pollination pop-ups with multiple partners around the United States. These experimental “grow kits” will enable the cultivation of radical seed action where participating organizations and individuals are performative agents, growing and broadcasting seed stories in their local communities and through the SeedBroadcast media network.

We are pleased to announce our first partners in SWAP are The Exubernauts!

During their bi-city event called Exuberant Politics, in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, SWAP will be located in both cities for visitors to engage, exchanging seeds, posting local seed and food news, and sharing and listening to seed stories through an in-house audio feed.

And we would like to welcome Carolyn Scherf as an Iowa SeedBroadcaster! Carolyn is a farmer and creative worker cultivating a joyous flight from corporatized definitions of value and success in Iowa agriculture.

She will be mobilizing one of the SWAP kits and partnering up with local organizations, farmers, and gardeners to reach out to a broad network of seed resilience. Carolyn will be recording local seed stories and posting blogs from theses events here on the SeedBroadcast blogger.

Stop by and join in SWAP, bring seeds to share, take seeds home to plant, post events, activities, and how to’s on the SWAP bulletin board, and come by to listen to seed stories!

March 5 – April 6 2014
Legion Arts 1103 3rd St. SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Public Space One 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, Iowa

To follow SeedBroadcast IOWA and find local SWAP events: www.facebook.com/seedbroadcastIA

For more information about Exuberant Politics go to: http://exuberantpolitics.art.uiowa.edu

Seed Hymn

All Species Day Projects Circle of six disciplines of Replenish, Redesign and Remember

Chris Wells is an avid believer in how our natural word informs us as humans and has dedicated his life's work to remind us all to connect back to the earth and its magic.  He is the visionary behind All Species Day, allspeciesprojects.com , a founding member of the Bioregional movement and has been growing ancient varieties of corn, from the early sixties, when he was introduced to the power held in this plant by the Hopi.  His latest offering to us all is his Seed Hymn. He wanted to create a contemporary song to celebrate the essential beings of life and this idea grew out of a need to recognize the the real wealth of this world and to protect it. In a recent conversation he stated  "This is a basic praise and worship Sunday morning kind of song that I hope will travel to church choirs, religious rockers and perhaps confound the Friday night bar crowd."

Chris recorded his Seed Hymn on a recent visit to Santa Fe from his home in Oaxaca.

                                

                         Lets spread the praise for our ancient seeds

Seed Hymn

Seed of bright new day

Sun seed-the blessing way

Seeds of the forest of the sky

Seeds of the mountains high

Seed in the rolling sun

Seed of the heart that's spun

Breathing seed

Seed divine

Seed of the spiraling of the stars

Seed on the wind

Seed of the beginning 

and the beginning again

Seed in the motion

 Of the ocean

On the waves

Seeds of tomorrow

Seeds of yesterday

In these times

will you return to us

bring your flowers

And your fields

Hold tight these ancient ones

Health and flavor 

Prove the yield

Let our children

Learn to grow

We are not just here to fight

 The way the earth 

Provides for us

If we treat her right

Seed of the spiraling of the stars

Seed on the wind

Seed of the beginning 

And the beginning again

Seed in the motion

Of the ocean

On the waves

Seeds of tomrrow

Seeds of yesterday

Sprout of maple

Limb of oak

 Stone of peach

May our people bring you within reach

Grain of corn

Blossom of squash 

Ovum of bean

Sing them strong and pure

Standing ancient free

Sing them strong and pure

Standing ancient free......

This is an invite to all you seed-lovers and local food growers out there! Please consider contributing to the 2nd edition of the Seedbroadcast agri-Culture Journal. It could be a drawing, photograph, story, journal entries, poem, an essay, a manifesto, your favorite recipe using home grown food, with a relevance to seeds, seed saving and local food growing practices. Each of you holds a wisdom and it is this wisdom we hope to share.

This 2nd edition will be published in Spring 2014 and will be available in printed and web format.
Deadline for contributions is January 31st 2014.
Send to seedbroadcast@gmail.com.
Images should be 300 dpi and please include a couple of sentences about yourself, your collective, farm, family or organization.

Please take a look at our 1st edition. 
It is available to download  here:
http://www.seedbroadcast.org/SeedBroadcast/SeedBroadcast_agriCulture_Journal.html

 We look forward to hearing from you,
SeedBroadcasters.

Flordemayo's Seed Temple. Open House, October 26th and 27th, 2013.

This open invitation was sent to us by Belinda Eriacho who SeedBroadcast met at the Native/Seeds Search http://www.nativeseeds.org/events/seed-school seed school earlier this year. We have kept in touch and are delighted to hear that Flordemayo's Seed Temple is now ready for us all to visit. Do not miss this unique opportunity.

 

Here is Belinda's seed story,

Gathering for Mother Earth, Seed Stories.

These stories were shared with us at the 2013 Gathering for Mother Earth organized by Tewa Women United. http://tewawomenunited.org/
Thank you everyone who took the time to tell us your story.

Gus Johnson shares a seed story about growing and sharing Seminole Hanging Pumpkins.


Jennie Luna shares a seed story about amaranth.

Jerermy Wright shares a seed story about generosity, patience, listening and artistry.

Ramos Sanchez shares a seed story about farming, food and community in the old times.

Michele Rozbitsky shares an ancient seed saving project she helped with at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.

Judithann Poncho talks about the importance of giving thanks to the plants.

Annie Miller talks about the beans and corn seeds she saved.

Carina Schnieders talks about being a kid and collecting seeds.

Alan Sutherland talks about finding ancient Dixon barley.

Amy Torrez from Chama, New Mexico shares how her family grew and ate potatoes and beans.

Jessica Riggs tells us why she saves her calendula seeds and shares them.

Alix Hudson shares her story of waffle gardening in Zuni Pueblo.

Erick Valdez talks about saving seeds from his spinach and calabacitas.