Mora Seed Swap

Stop by and share in the wisdom of seeds as Mora Seed Swap hosts their annual potluck, Seed Swap, and conducts a seed saving class.

SeedBroadcast will be there to share seed stories and the open-pollinated how-to's of many other inspiring seed folks. We will also be recording seed stories. So bring a story to share!

Mora Seed Swap
April 6, 2014
St Gertrude's Parish Hall
Junction of HWY 518 & 434
Mora, NM

Seed Swap/Potluck 12 - 1pm
Seed Saving Class 1 - 530pm

Bring:

• a dish for potluck
• 2 glass jars with lids
• a sense of humor

SeedBroadcasting from Juan Tabo Seed Library

New Mexico Bolitas in the re-purposed card catalog

Seed Catalog at the Juan Tabo Public Seed Library

SeedBroadcast partnered up with the Juan Tabo Public Library in Albuquerque, New Mexico to celebrate and kick-off Albuquerque's first public seed library. Folks came from near and far, curous about the call for seeds and wondering what a seed library could possibly be. New Mexico Master gardeners, volunteers from ABQ BioPark, Wes Brittenham from Plants of the Southwest, and Noel Chilton with SEEDS: A Collective Voice Community Seed Mural were also there to share, educate, and inspire visitors to get the year growing with seeds.

Getting up close with the ABQ BioPark Seed Exploratorium

Community Seed Mural

Library visitor helps create the seed mural

The celebration did not attract massive crowds, but what it did was situated in the everyday. The seed library engaged people who are already using the library, surprising them with the new card catalog addition of seeds to be grown, saved, shared, and realized year after year. Library patrons walked by, arms loaded down with books and packets of seeds, heading home to spend the beautiful spring day outside planting.

Inspired by the seedy inspiration spreading across the country and her love of gardening, Juan Tabo Branch Manager, Brita Sauer, decided to organize the seed library and bring people together around seeds. You can listen to her seed story here.

Library patrons explore the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station

In Memory of Amy Hetager

Amy Hetager was a remarkable woman with a powerful vision.  Five years ago when she found out she had cancer she decided to dedicate her life to build a community of people dedicated to growing and sharing their own food so she initiated Home Grown New Mexico and the Santa Fe Seed Exchange. Amy, a master gardener, was also involved with many local organizations such as Frenchy's Community Garden and the Milagro Community garden.
SeedBroadcast met Amy two years ago and we were honored to work with her on the 2013 Santa Fe Seed Exchange where Amy shared her story of her grandmother's gifting of seeds. Unfortunately she could not attend this years seed event but her vision and dreams were held by all who attended.



Amy sadly lost her battle to cancer and she will be sorely missed here in our community. Our deep respects go out to her family.

Amy left us an incredible gift of her inspired wisdom and dreams.........

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal is a bi-annual collection of poetry, inspired thoughts, essays, photographs, drawings, recipes and wisdom gathered together from a national call out to lovers of local food and seeds. This journal supports collaboration and the sharing of seeds, stories, resources and inspiration within our local communities and between individuals, while also providing pollination through diversified regional, national and international internet-media networks.

The Spring 2014 edition is now available to download 

 http://seedbroadcast.org/SeedBroadcast/SeedBroadcast_agriCulture_Journal.html and is available in print at various locations and from the 

Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station. 

 For this edition we were honored to receive many diverse contributions: from Deluvina Armijo in Las Vegas, New Mexico who shared with us her recipe for collecting and cooking quelites (wild spinach) to Whitney Richardson and Maureen Walrath of Pueblo Semilla in Chicago and to Isaura Andaluz and Jade Leva of SEEDS: A Collective Voice in Albuquerque, New Mexico and many more. 

Please check out this Spring edition and let us know what you think,

Deadline for the Autumn 2014 edition is August 31st 2014. 

Send contributions to seedbroadcast@gmail.com

And a huge thank you to all of you who contributed.

Stories from Ely, IA

Ely Iowa is a rural farm town on the outskirts of Cedar Rapids. Like other small farming communities, its landscape and surrounding architecture are a testament to the current paradigm of corporate agricultural monopoly.

Krob Feed Mill - Ely IA - Becca Kacanda 2014

But Even in the midst of factories like that of Dupont, and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) with its giant post-apolcolyptic sci-fi looking facility capable of processing 3,000 acres of corn into high-fructose corn syrup daily, not to mention International Paper and a coal burning plant, all within a 10 mile radius of the town, Ely, with a population of 1,776, is not without empowered individuals reviving both recreational interest and entrepreneurial opportunity in food production and who are cultivating new enthusiasm for the natural world. 

Ali Eggenberg Alldredge - Seed Starting Demonstration @ Ely Public Library 2014

The Takes family, for example, who have raised 6 kids on their Ely dairy, milking two times a day and marketing milk through Swiss Valley recently purchased, and are in the process of transforming a defunct lumberyard into a local creamery in order to market their milk directly to locals, and in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids grocery stores. They also have plans to churn their own ice cream- which is sure to be a hit, especially for bikers taking the new Cedar River Bike Trail through town.

Ely SWAP

Earlier this month we met up with community members at the the Ely Public Library,  home to one of the first Seed Libraries in the country-initiated in 2011 by Ali Eggenberg Alldredge.

Melissa Sharapova replenishing Ely Seed Library with new seed - 2014

SeedBroadcast Soundcloud

Cheri Frank's Pale Cone Flower Seeds - 2014