SeedBroadcasting at 2017 Bees + Seeds Festival

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SeedBroadcast and the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station will beeeeeee at the GMO Free New Mexico Bees + Seeds Festival!

We will be recording Seed Stories. Bring your story to share!

May 20 from 1pm - 9pm
Tractor Brewing
1800 4th St NW
Albuquerque, NM

Bees + Seeds Festival Event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/338589483177502/

SeedBroadcasting with our local kids at the Anton Chico Schools!

SeedBroadcast is excited to celebrate seeds, gardening, farming, and the beginning of summer in our home village of Anton Chico with the kids who give us hope. We will be at the Anton Chico School on May 11 for their Tiger-Rama day sharing seeds, planting starts, telling stories, and making art.

SeedBroadcasting with West Las Vegas High School Science Students

SeedBroadcast will be meeting with science students at the West Las Vegas High School on May 10 to discuss seeds, agri-Culture, and local food resilience. We are excited to be a part of this conversation!

SeedBroadcasting with Northern Youth Project!

SeedBroadcast is excited to hang out with the Northern Youth Project in Abiquiu and celebrate seeds and our next generation of gardeners, farmers, and creative leaders!


Join us there for their Annual Plant Sale and Seed Exchange
Come gather at the Northern Youth Project Garden!


May 13th 10am - 2pm
Abiquiu. Hwy 84 behind the Rising Moon Gallery.

Come buy locally grown plant starts for your own garden or for a loved one. Bring seeds to share, and find some to plant! And share your Seed Story with SeedBroadcast.

Live music by Socially Organic, stories from SeedBroadcast, and Tacos with joyously local ingredients!!

For questions or more information, contact: (505) 685-9474 northernyouthproject@gmail.com

facebook.com/nypnm northernyouthproject.org

SeedBroadcast at the Pueblo de San Ildefonso Health Fair

SeedBroadcast will be sharing creativity, agri-Culture, seeds, community gardening and health at the Pueblo de San Ildefonso Health and Safety & Career and Education Fair.

May 6, 2017
9am - 2pm
San Ildefonso Gymnasium

For more information contact:
Raelene Martinez 505-455-2395
Dolly Narang 505-692-5943
Thelma Gonzalez 505-455-4114

A Pueblo de San Ildefonso Health and Human Services Event in Collaboration with the Pueblo de San Ildefonso Education Department.

Owingeh Tah Pueblos y Semillas Gathering and Seed Exchange

Seeds from the south, 

Our seeds were truly blessed at the 12th Annual Owingeh Tah Pueblos Y Semillas Gathering at Seed Exchange. This gathering is presented by the New Mexican Food and Seed Sovereignty Alliance and hosted by Sembrando Semillas de Abiquiu Youth in partnership with Northern Youth Alliance and the El Pueblo de Abiquiu Library and Cultural Center.

Seed Exchange

The New Mexico Food and Seed Alliance was formed in 2006 following the Seed Sovereignty Declaration in which farmers form tribal, Pueblo, acequia communities and other farmers signed the declaration to defend the rights of seeds.

1. Whereas, our ability to grow food is the culmination of countless generations of sowing and harvesting seeds and those seeds are the continuation of an unbroken line from our ancestors to us and to our children and grandchildren. 
2. Whereas, our ancestors developed a relationship with plants that allowed their cultivation for food and medicine and this has been a central element of our culture and our survival for millennia in regions throughout the world. 
3. Whereas, the concurrent development of cultures of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas resulted in a plethora of food and crop types including grains such as maize and wheat; legumes such as beans and lentils; fruits such as squash and chile; vegetables such as spinach and those of the cabbage family; and roots such as potatoes and turnips. 
4. Whereas these foods and crops, though developed independently of each other, came together in New Mexico with the meeting of Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultures to create a unique and diverse indigenous agricultural system and land-based culture.
 5. Whereas, just as our families are attached to our homes, our seeds learn to thrive in their place of cultivation by developing a relationship with the soil, water, agricultural practices, ceremonies, and prayers; thereby giving seeds a sacred place in our families and communities.
 6. Whereas, the way in which seeds become attached to a place makes them native seeds, also known as landraces, also makes them an important element of the generational memory of our communities.
 7. Whereas the continued nurturing of native seeds or landraces has provided the basis for the community coming together for communal work such as cleaning acequias and preparing fields as well as in ceremony, prayers, and blessings; thereby binding our communities, traditions, and cultures together. 
8. Whereas the practices embodied in working the land and water and caring for seeds provides the basis for our respectful connection to the Earth and with each other. 
9. Whereas, our practices in caring for native seeds (landraces) and growing crops provide for much of our traditional diet and results in our ability to feed ourselves with healthy food that is culturally and spiritually significant. 
10. Whereas clean air, soil, water, and landscapes have been essential elements in the development and nurturing of seeds as well as the harvesting of wild plants; and that these elements of air, land, and water have been contaminated to certain degrees. 
11. Whereas corporate seed industries have created a technology that takes the genetic material from a foreign species and inserts it into a landrace and is known as Genetically Engineered (GE) or transgenic crops. 
12. Whereas seed corporations patent the seeds, genetics, and/or the processes used in the manipulation of landraces, and have gone so far as to patent other wild plants or the properties contained in the plants. 
13. Whereas GE crops have escaped into the environment with maize in Oaxaca, Mexico and canola in Canada and crossed into native seeds and wild plants. 
14. Whereas organic farmers have been sued by seed corporations when these patented genetic strains have been identified in the farmers’ crops, even though the farmers were unable to see or stop pollen from genetically engineered crops from blowing over the landscape and into their fields, thus contaminating the farmers’ crops. 
15. Whereas the effect of this technology on the environment or human health when consumed is not fully understood. 
16. Whereas the seed industry refuses to label GE seeds and food products containing GE ingredients. 17. Whereas the pervasiveness of GE crops in our area cannot then be fully known due to the lack of labeling and therefore carries the potential for genetic pollution on our landraces. 
18. Whereas countries such as Japan, England, and countries in Africa have refused genetically modified foods and prohibit the introduction of GE crops on their lands because of their unknown health effects. 19. Whereas indigenous cultures around the world are the originators, developers, and owners of the original genetic material used in the genetic engineering of crops by corporations today. 
20. Whereas this declaration must be a living, adaptable document that can be amended as needed in response to rapidly changing GE technology that brings about other potential assaults to seeds and our culture. 
21. Be it resolved by the traditional farmers of Indo-Hispano and Native American ancestry of current-day northern New Mexico collectively and intentionally seek to continue the seed-saving traditions of our ancestors and maintain the landraces that are indigenous to the region of northern New Mexico. 
22. Be it further resolved that we seek to engage youth in the continuation of the traditions of growing traditional foods, sharing scarce water resources, sharing seeds, and celebrating our harvests. 
23. Be it further resolved that we reject the validity of corporations’ ownership claims to crops and wild plants that belong to our cultural history and identity. 
24. Be it further resolved that we believe corporate ownership claims of landrace crop genomes and patent law represent a legal framework for the justification of the possession and destruction of stolen cultural property. 
25. Be it further resolved that we object to the seed industry’s refusal to label seeds or products containing GE technology and ingredients and demand all genetically modified seeds and foods containing GE ingredients in the State of New Mexico to be labeled as such. 
26. Be it further resolved that we consider genetic modification and the potential contamination of our landraces by GE technology a continuation of genocide upon indigenous people and as malicious and sacrilegious acts toward our ancestry, culture, and future generations. 
27. Be it further resolved that we object to the cultivation of GE seeds in general but especially within range of our traditional agricultural systems that can lead to the contamination of our seeds, wild plants, traditional foods, and cultural property. 
28. Be it further resolved that we will work with each other, local, tribal, and state governments to create zones that will be free of genetically engineered and transgenic organisms. 
29. Be it further resolved that we will also work together to address other environmental abuses that contaminate our air, soil, and water quality that certainly affects our health, the health of our seeds and agriculture, and the health of future generations. 
30. Be it further resolved that the undersigned traditional farmers representing various acequia, Pueblo, tribal, and surrounding communities will create, support, and collaborate toward projects and programs focused on revitalization of food traditions, agriculture, and seed saving and sharing. Drafted by the Traditional Native American Farmers’ Association (TNAFA) and the New Mexico Acequia Association (NMAA) in January, February, and March 2006.

Traditional Sacred Blue Corn

It Is important to remember the power of declaration and as we plant our seeds this year bless everyone of them, take care of them as they were your children and next year share them with your neighbor or find or even start a local seed exchange. In these upside down times this is a radical act that we all can do......

Thank you to the amazing New Mexico Acequia Association, Traditional Native American Farmer's Association, Honor Our Pueblo Existence ,Tewa Women United and to all who strive to hold our seeds as sacred living beings and at the heart of our cultural paths.

Seed balls made from water, soil and seeds from the four directions

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal #8

The 8th edition of the  SeedBroadcast Journal is now available. It can be found in printed version at numerous places, such as Co-ops, libraries, farmers markets and even in some CSA deliveries around New Mexico and the world . It can also be accessed here :  agri-Culture .  Thank you to all the many people who sent us submissions for this edition we so appreciate your dedication to seeds, local food sovereignty and the generosity of sharing your wisdom. The deadline for the next edition is September Ist 2017,  there is information on how to  submit on page 4, we would love to hear from you.

Whole of Seed classes with Cuatro Puertas!

The Whole of Seed classes start Saturday, January 14th. EVERYONE IS INVITED. Money need not be a barrier to your attendance. Please contact Cuatro Puertas at info@c4uertas.org for more information on assistance.

We are transferring our email service to keep your information private and allow us to contact you in a timely manner. If you no longer want to receive emails from Cuatro Puertas,
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WHOLE OF SEED COURSE
2017Class Dates

Whole of Seed and You/Natural Observation
DATE: Saturday Jan. 14th
TIME: 9 am – 3 pm
INSTRUCTORS: Michael Reed and Isaura Andaluz

Water Stewardship
DATE: Saturday Jan. 21st
TIME: 9 am – 2 pm
INSTRUCTOR: Christian Meuli

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These next two classes are not offered by Cuatro Puertas, but we will accept as a niche class. Please contact them directly to sign up: http://www.npsnm.org/

Native Plants Class
DATE: Friday Feb. 10th
TIME: 6 pm – 9 pm
INSTRUCTOR: Native Plant Society of New Mexico

Pollinator Habitat Design Workshop
DATE: Saturday Feb. 11th
TIME: 9 am – 4pm
INSTRUCTOR: Native Plant Society of New Mexico

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Plant Stewardship & Native Crops
DATE: Saturday Feb. 25th
TIME: 9 am – 3 pm
INSTRUCTORS: Koby Jeschkeit-Hagen and Brett Baker

Seed Production
DATE: Sunday Feb. 26th
TIME: 9 am – 3pm
INSTRUCTOR: Joshua Cravens

Abundant Exchange
DATE: Sunday Mar. 5th
TIME: 9 am – 1 pm
INSTRUCTOR: Isaura Andaluz and Koby Jeschkeit-Hagen

Spring Intensive
DATES: TBD

Water Stewardship Field Day in Edgewood
DATE: Saturday May 13th
INSTRUCTOR: Christian Meuli

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For more information: www.c4puertas.org

Cuartro Puertas Staff

Contribute to the 8th edition SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal. DEADLINE February15th 2017

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal is a bi-annual collection of poetry, inspired thoughts, essays, photographs, drawings, recipes, How-to’s 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 local communities and between individuals, while also providing pollination through diversified regional, national, and international internet-media networks.

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal 

 http://www.seedbroadcast.org/SeedBroadcast/SeedBroadcast_agriCulture_Journal.html 

It is also available in print at various locations and directly from the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station. If you contribute you will receive a stack of printed copies.

 

Contribute   Participate     Propose

Send us your seed inspired poems, images, photographs, recipes, articles about your work, provocative essays, calls for seed action! 

This year SeedBroadcast is focusing on Seeds and Climate Resilience.

The DEADLINE for the next edition is FEBRUARY 15th 2017

Please send your inquiries, proposals, and contributions to seedbroadcast@gmail.com

Images should be at least 300 dpi, 4" X 6" include captions, a short bio and your mailing address.

 

We are looking forward to your contributions.

Free Introductory Lecture on Principles of Biological Systems & Implications, January 2017!

Free Introductory Lecture on Principles of Biological Systems & Implications, January 2017!

For the first time in New Mexico, Dan Kittredge, Life-Long Farmer, Founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA; www.bionutrient.org) will be presenting a 3-city tour, free Introductory Lecture Series, on Principles of Biological Systems & Implications!

We will cover the dynamics by which plants evolved to flourish, and management practices that support the environment for that to occur.

Strategies for soil aeration, hydration, mineral balancing, inoculation, and feeding through the liquid carbon pathway will be presented.

Also addressed will be the broader implications for soil carbon sequestration, increases in pest and disease resistance, along with nutritive value, flavor, aroma, and shelf life.  The lay of the land as it pertains to consumer education, marketing and the food movement will also be discussed.

Save The Date!  BFA Introductory Lecture Series Information:

Location 1

Date:  Monday, January 23, 2017
Time:  6pm – 8pm

Location:  Taos Initiative for Life Together (TILT), 215 La Posta Rd, Taos, NM

Location 2

Date:  Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Time:  12pm – 2pm; Bring Your Lunch!

Location:  Santa Fe Community College Greenhouse Management, 6401 Richards Ave., Santa Fe, NM, in Boardroom #223

Location 3

Date:  Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Time:  6pm – 8pm

Location:  La Plazita Institute and Certified Organic Gardens, 831 Isleta Blvd SW, Albuquerque, NM

Local Area Contact:  Claire D'Gaia, 907-738-5333, in Taos, NM

This New Mexico BFA Introductory Lecture Series is provided by the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA; www.bionutrient.org), a 501(c)3 organization, whose mission is, "Increasing Quality in the Food Supply." (http://www.bionutrient.org/mission)

SeedBroadcast Celebrates: Seed the Unknown Story at the Santa Fe Premiere.

 

  They tried to bury us 

They did not know we were seeds.

SeedBroadcast  and the Mobile Seed Story Broadcast Station will be outside the Jean Cocteau cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday November 16th from 6pm to 9pm for the Santa Fe premiere of Seed: The Untold Story. 

The director Taggart Siegel will be available for questions and answers after the screening. 

Bring  your seeds to swap and your own seed stories to share.

In this sobering and unsettled time the beauty and potential of our heirloom seeds and the stories they hold can bring us together.

We look forward to seeing you there. 

"As many irreplaceable seeds near extinction, SEED reveals the harrowing and heartening story of passionate seed keepers as they wage a David and Goliath battle against chemical seed companies , defending a 12,000 year food legacy."

           

SeedBroadcasting from Tierra Viva: Farming the Living Earth

SeedBroadcast will be honoring Seeds during Tierra Viva: Farming the Living Earth, 2016 Biodynamic Conference.

The Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station invites local seeds, seed keepers, gardeners, farmers, and inspiring seeds, as well as all Biodynamic Conference attendees to join in celebrating Seed Stories and Swapping Seeds. Come by to record your Seed Story, drop off some seeds, and pick some up too. We will have lots of seed saving how-to’s to distribute and we hope to bring people together to share their wisdom and inspiration of Seeds.

We will be parked in front of the Santa Fe Conference Center and there is no cost to participate in this SeedBroadcast event.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Saturday, November 19

800am – 600pm: Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station

800pm – 930pm: Seed Exchange

Here is more information about SeedBroadcast and the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station:

http://www.seedbroadcast.org

Contact: seedbroadcast@gmail.com

SeedBroadcast Celebrates Seed: The Untold Story in Albuquerque

SeedBroadcast and the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station is partnering with the Guild Cinema and SEED: The Untold Story to celebrate the revolution of SEED in Albuquerque.

Bring your Seed Stories to record and your Seeds to Swap! Join us for the Albuquerque premiere of SEED: The Untold Story at the Guild Cinema! Q&A with director Taggart Siegel on Nov. 15

Locally grown, open-pollinated seed, growing healthy food, and caring for our family, communities, and earth will transform our world. 

November 15
We will be set up on the curbside from 7pm - 1030pm
Guild Cinema
Albuquerque, NM

SEED: The Untold Story is an award-winning documentary about the dramatic loss of seed diversity and the movement to restore future of our food, from the filmmakers behind The Real Dirt on Farmer John and Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?

Visit SEEDthemovie.com/trailer to watch the trailer.

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal #7

The 7th edition of the SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal is now available online here  
Print versions can be found at numerous locations around New Mexico.  
 Look out for it!

Call for Contributions! 7th Edition SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal

Contribute to the 7th Edition 

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal

DEADLINE August 15th 2015

 SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal is a bi-annual collection of poetry, inspired thoughts, essays, photographs, drawings, recipes, How-to’s 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 local communities and between individuals, while also providing pollination through diversified regional, national, and international internet-media networks.

 

SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal 

  http://seedbroadcast.org/SeedBroadcast/SeedBroadcast_agriCulture_Journal.html. 

It is also available in print at various locations and directly from the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station. If you contribute you will receive a stack of printed copies.

 

Contribute   Participate     Propose

Send us your seed inspired poems, images, photographs, recipes, articles about your work, provocative essays, calls for seed action! 

This year SeedBroadcast is focusing on Seeds and Climate change

The deadline for the next edition is August 15th 2016

Please send your inquiries, proposals, and contributions to seedbroadcast@gmail.com

Images should be at least 300 dpi, 4" X 6" include captions, a short bio and your mailing address.

 

We are looking forward to your contributions.

Waggle Dancing at the Bees + Seeds

Local artists, Cloudface and Al Na'ir painting murals to be auctioned off and benefit the event

GMO-Free New Mexico has been organizing annual events for many years calling on Albuquerque to get up and get out and spend time acknowledging the importance of bees and seeds in our lives while building solidarity within Albuquerque communities to advocate and act for these tiny, yet essential beings. This years 2016 Bees + Seeds Festival was a tremendous event with thousands of visitors. The festival took place at Tractor Brewing Company, occupying their parking lot and interior of the brewery and definitely drawing crowds to drink beer, hang out with friends, listen to music, and have a good time. But what does having a good time and drinking beer, singing and dancing have to do with saving a keystone species and the quickly dwindling biodiversity of plants and seed? I would say many things when we build the capacity as a community to realize that everything we have in life comes from these creatures and all our relations. Perception, mindful attention, love, celebration, and gratitude are the seeds of this revolution.

Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station

Throughout the day SeedBroadcast met lots of local gardeners, several seed savers and many people who were looking for a place to share seed and get seed. The Juan Tabo ABC Seed Library http://abqlibrary.org/seeds was also at the event so we sent folks over to talk with Brita Sauer about their local seed library and how to participate. Here is a Seed Story from Brita about the seed library . This was recorded in 2014 at the opening of the seed library.

https://soundcloud.com/seedbroadcast/librarian-brita-sauer-talks

SeedBroadcaster, Ruben Olguin talking seed with a group of visitors

There was talk of community garden projects taking place around the city. One in particular is the Veteran Farmer Project https://www.facebook.com/veteranfarmerproject where veterans, active service, and National Guard people can take free farming classes and get hands-on experience in vegetable and livestock production. Other gardeners talked about the strange seasons and unusually warm late winter, unusually long, cool spring and many seeds that just did not want to sprout.

Gathering seeds and meeting new friends inside the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station

Kids flocked over to the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station to draw pictures and post them on the bulleting board. Many people sat inside the van and listened to Seed Stories. We also handed out lots of seed with the promised exchange that they would try to save some seeds and pass them on.

Seeds: A Collective Voice mural

The festival also included Seeds: A Collective Voice http://www.seedsacollectivevoice.org project organized by artist Jade Leyva who has been working for the last three years on community seed murals to bring attention to seed, bees, healthy community, sustainability, and the environment.
All of theses murals will be shown at the National Hispanic Cultural Center…coming soon.

New Mexico Bee Keepers, honeycomb

Food is Free Albuquerque, seed paper

Many local environmental and social justice organizations were tabling to share information and even something more. The New Mexico Beekeepers Association http://nmbeekeepers.org had honeycombs from a top bar hive to demonstrate how bee architecture brings form and function together to create healthy homes for bees to raise their young, store food as honey, and occasionally birth a new queen.

Also present and celebrating great success was Food Is Free Albuquerque https://www.facebook.com/Food-is-Free-Albuquerque-1453889834882483/?fref=ts inspired by a national movement to take back our food! The Albuquerque contingent was founded by a group of mothers and kids gleaning every nook and cranny of Albuquerque to bring healthy, free food to everyone who needs it. It was great to meet the crew and see the seed paper and free plants they were handing out. Here is a Seed Story from Erin Garrison, recorded at the Civic Plaza Earth Day Celebration where she talks about the project.

https://soundcloud.com/seedbroadcast/erin-garrison-talks-about-the-newly-formed-food-is-free-albuquerque

Juntos information

How can we have seeds, bees, and food without clean water, air, and a healthy environment? In Albuquerque, like in many cities across the country, communities of color and/or those in marginalized areas are at the greatest risk of exposure from the toxic plume of dominating culture, i.e. exploitation. This includes water contamination, air pollution, industrial and political bulldozing, and food deserts. Juntos https://www.facebook.com/JuntosNM is a newly formed organization bringing together Latina/o youth and mothers to organize for environmental and social justice. Here is their word of intent:
“Juntos organizes and engages grassroots volunteers and leaders, especially Latina/o youth and mothers from the International District, South Valley, and Westgate, in developing the People’s Clean Power Plan, including holding appointed and elected officials accountable for state implementation of an environmental justice inclusive Clean Power Plan, as well as research, visioning and development of a local campaign that addresses air pollution and quality issues in Latina/o communities in Albuquerque.”

You know what.... a giant March Against Monsanto banner

GMO-Free New Mexico https://www.facebook.com/gmofreenm/?fref=ts did a fantastic job organizing this event. At their main booth they were handing out free seeds, plants, seed balls, and non-gmo sodas. Their intention is to make all of this real as a hive mind. To save the bees, share the seeds, grow gardens and food for all creatures, bring people together, work together, dream, and celebrate. This event and the way GMO-Free NM functions as an organization could be likened to a bee colony. There is no “one” at its center. Instead it is made up of many dancers, musicians, farmers, activists, teachers, beekeepers, artists, storytellers, and more. It is a collective of joyous, compassionate, generous souls coming together to waggle dance for the bees and seeds, each other, and Mother Earth.

Free seeds

Seed balls

SWAP at EcoZoic Era: plant|seed|soil

SeedBroadcast is honored to be included in the exhibition The Ecozoic Era: plant|seed|soil from April 29 – August 5, 2016 where we are presenting the project SWAP, a hands-on Seed Story germination grow-kit. SWAP, along with the rest of the exhibition, is located inside the New Mexico State Capital Roundhouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This is the perfect site to declare seeds as open-source, non-proprietary bodies and beings who participate in the social and environmental well-being of everyone in our communities. It is also the perfect site for individuals to declare through action, their right to save and share seeds and disrupt the corporate domination of seed, food, agri-Culture, and politics of the few over the many.

SWAP is a pop-up, Seed Story grow-kit where visitors can participate in connecting with seeds and honoring their stories through drawing, reading, conversation, and of course swapping seeds. One can also sit down and listen to Seed Stories on headphones. SeedBroadcast is actively using this space as an ongoing recording studio through the rest of the exhibition to record Seed Stories from all participating artists and local residents.

We are encouraging local folks in Santa Fe to bring open-pollinated seeds to SWAP and pick up seeds to take home and grow. Seeds can be dropped off at SWAP, deposited in one of the many envelopes and jars, and labeled with the seed name. You might even want to add a little Seed Story into the jar so your seeds will have relations to share with whoever takes them home. When picking up seed, take only what you can use and be sure to leave plenty for others. There are empty packets to transfer your seed into.

The table and bulletin board are set up for drawing Seed Stories and posting these along with community Seed information on the tack board. SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journals are also available for your seedy reading pleasure.

So far thousands of seeds have made their way into the Roundhouse and New Mexico’s political center to take a seat and wield their perfect power of nourishment, wisdom, and generosity. As many will agree, these characteristics are really the roots of radical action today. Seeds are our guides, teaching us how to save seeds, grow food, support healthy community, and share this wealth with others.

Thanks go out to all the seed keepers who brought seeds to share for the opening reception and who continue to bring seeds to be included in SWAP for the duration of the exhibition. We hope this project will encourage Santa Fe to organize a year round seed swap, seed library, or whatever might yet be imagined to share seed.

Here are some Seed Stories recorded at SWAP... with more to come!

Bobbe Besold shares her Seed Story at the Ecozoic Era: plant|seed|soil art exhibition
https://soundcloud.com/seedbroadcast/bobbe-shares-her-seed-story-at-the-ecozoic-era-plantseedsoil-art-exhibition


Marion Wasserman tells a Seed Story about life long relationships with seed
https://soundcloud.com/seedbroadcast/marion-wasserman-tells-a-seed-story-about-life-long-relationships-with-seed

Exhibition detail

We would also like to honor the incredible work in the exhibition encompassing both human and the more-than-human love of land, plant, seed, soil, compost, and more. Here is a list of all the artists involved. And as many of these artists point out on their wall labels, there are many more project partners who made all this work possible, both human and other.

Margaret Bagshaw
Bobbe Besold
Matthew Chase-Daniel
Helen Hardin
Jeanette Hart-Mann
Basia Irland
Courtney M Leonard
Jade Leyva
Amy Lin
Sarah Molina
Sabra Moore
Larry Ogan
Ruben Olguin
Chrissie Orr
Halley Roberts
Ahní Rocheleau
Gabriela Silva
Penny Spring
Nancy Sutor
Rulan Tangen
Pablita Velarde
Marion Wasserman
Jerry Wellman
Rick Yoshimoto

Bobbe Besold is not only an artist in the show, she is also the curator and organizer. The exhibition’s title The Ecozoic Era: plant|seed|soil is informed by the following statement:

“Ecozoic: “eco-“ is derived from the Greek work “oikos” meaning house, household, or home, and “-zoic” from the Greek word “zoikos” meaning pertaining to living beings. The House of Livings Beings. We are all, all of us, living in the same house.”

“This biological term was created by the philosopher, geologian, Earth scholar, Thomas Berry.”

Bobbe Besold, Seed Blocks: for building or for gambling

Jade Leyva, Maíz Azúl

Exhibition detail

Penny Spring, Seeds, Stems, Roots and Shoots, fabric collage

Gabriela Silva, Growing Paper
New Mexico True Blue Corn
New Mexico True Pink Corn
New Mexico Black Beans
New Mexico Pinto Beans
New Mexico Snow Peas
The Three Sisters
handmade paper and seeds

Exhibition detail

Sabra Moore, H/EAR//HER/E

The Ecozoic Era: plant|seed|soil exhibition was sponsored by El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, The NM Capital Art Foundation, the McCune Foundation and dRoberts Realty.