Jennie Luna shares a seed story about amaranth. She talks about the history of this powerful grain and its suppression and resurgence as an important cultural and nutritional plant. She also shares a really delicious recipe!

Jennie Luna shares a seed story about amaranth.

Ada shares her story about the life cycle of a seed.  This story was also shared through her drawing.
SeedBroadcast met Ada and her mother at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Event on the Mall in Washington DC.

Ada.

Connor Rice is an agriculture specialist with Customs and Border patrol. He shares his unusual interactions with seeds and the importance of  controlling invasive species.
SeedBroadcast met Connor at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism event on the Mall in Washington DC.

Connor Rice

Carly Borgmeier shares her childhood memory of playing in the corn silos on her father's farm in Southern Indiana. 
SeedBroadcast met Carly at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism event on the Mall in Washington DC.

Carly Borgmeier

We met Amanda Lee at the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife X Earth Optimism Festival where she shared a Seed Story about her small patio garden and all the experiments and designs she is working on to grow as much food as she can in this tiny space.

Amanda Lee talks about her patio garden innovation

Reana Kovalcik, who founded the D.C. based Share A Seed, partnered up with SeedBroadcast for the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife X Earth Optimism Festival. On the last day she shares a Seed Story recording about her impulse to create Share A Seed and how it works. ~Note this recording was made on July 4th in Washington, DC and yes that was a really big fireworks explosion~

Reana Kovalcik talks about D.C. based Share A Seed

We met Stacy Karmen at the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife X Earth Optimism Festival where she shared a Seed Story about her garden and a discovery of cantaloup seeds in the her family's old farmhouse coal cellar.

Stacy Karmen shares a Seed Story discovery of seeds

Elijah Goodwin, Deputy Director of Ecology at Stone Barns Center shares a couple Seed Stories about how seeds travel through their relationships with other creatures and via internal kinetic energy released from their own bodily forms.

Elijah Goodwin talks about the movement of seeds

Jack Algiere, Director of Agroecology at Stone Barns Center, shares a Seed Story of plant breeding and the creation of the Pocantico Pea.

Jack Algiere share a story about the Pocantico Pea

SeedBroadcast partnered up with the Smithsonian Institute Folklife X Earth Optimism Festival to present Seed Stories as an agri-Cultural expression which supports Food Justice and ways for us to talk about and deal with Climate Change. Here are some recordings with folks at the festival prompted by the idea of Seeds and Optimism//Seeds and Hope.

Seeds and Hope at Smithsonian Folklife X Earth Optimism Festival

SeedBroadcast asked folks at the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival X Earth Optimism Festival what the relationship is between seeds and hope and here is what they had to say...

Seeds and Hope Remix at the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival X Earth Optimism Festival

Sylvia Ortega from Guadaluptia, New Mexico shares her story of saving pumpkin seeds and her love of gardening.

Sylvia Ortega shares her story of saving pumpkin and flower seeds.

Kris Holstrom talks about her commitment to farming and education to support local and networked foodscapes at her farm near Telluride, Colorado.

Kris Holstrom talks about farming and teaching at her high-altitude farm.

Amy Moulton, director of the West Custer Public Library, talks about the Westcliffe Seed Library and local efforts to grow community connections with seeds.

Amy Moulton talks about the Westcliffe Seed Library and local efforts to grow community connections

Lloyd Kreitzer, shares his story of saving the special fig tree that grew in La Luz, New Mexico.

Lloyd Kreitzer shares his story of the fig tree of La Luz.

Kaylie Caires, an educational instructor at Wild Willow Farm, shares her deep belief in the importance of learning through the growing of food and the influence of her father, a farmer and gardener.

Kaylie Caires talks about sustaining her passion for growing food

Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray talks about traditional agricultural,  seed saving practices and the dangers of GMO's . She also shares a seed song.

Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray talks about traditional agricultural practices

Kelli Meeker talks about being an Americorp Vista Volunteer at the Montezuma School to Farm Project where public education is transformed by giving kids the power to grow food, save seeds, and make decisions.

Kelli Meeker shares a Seed Story about fun, seeds, and public education from the garden

Brett Bakker talks about being entranced with seeds and learning about their deeply transformational relationship to community, land, and time.

Brett Bakker shares a seed story about how seeds become a part of us

Mark O'Hare shares the story of Padre Kino and the white sonoran wheat

Greg Schoen talks about the Glass Gem Rainbow Corn from its history with Carl Barnes to the memories it carries in its seed and the many stories it shares with us.

Greg Schoen shares a Seed Story about the Glass Gem Rainbow Corn

Scott Chaskey shares a Seed Story from the Cornwall cliff meadows with his old timey mentor Edgar Wallace who taught Scott the ritual of potato.

Scott Chaskey talks about the Cornwall cliff meadows and his mentor Edgar Wallis

Bryna Stalarow talks about how economics, choice, trust, food deserts, and fighting for healthy food are all wrapped up in the injustice of food.

Bryna Stalarow talks about the injustice of food from the Albuquerque March Against Monsanto

Iona Vernon and Noel Mollinedo share their Seed Story from Habitat - Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts in Albuquerque, NM where they talked about foraging for food in the mountains and the importance of seed sharing to keep our food alive.

Iona Vernon and Noel Mollinedo share a Seed Story about mountain foraging

Nan Fischer describes how she implemented the Taos Seed Swap, in Taos, New Mexico.  Recorded at the 3rd annual Taos Seed Swap.  Nan discusses how she started from small seed swap boxes in stores and its evolution to the event it has become.

Nan Fischer talks about the Taos Seed Exchange Stations available all over Taos County

Christopher Honahnie shares his story of growing up in a Hopi farming family and how he hopes to share this knowledge for future generations.

Christopher Honahnie shares his story of growing up in a Hopi farming family

Jennifer Padilla of Isleta Pueblo the organizer for the community garden talks about seeds, community healing, ancestral wisdom and climate change.

Jennifer Padilla of Isleta Pueblo talks about seeds, healing, ancestral wisdom and climate change.

Gilbert Yazzie talks about seeds as life, where there is no beginning or end, and the importance of keeping farming and food alive to give thanks and share its goodness with all in harmony.

Gilbert Yazzie shares his Seed Story of farming, sharing healthy food, and harmony

Owen Chavez Liberman shares the Seed Story he wrote at school about a really big tree.

Owen Chavez Liberman shares his Seed Story of a really big tree

From her initial memory of wonderment regarding a calendula seed and its capacity as a living being to her activist work as a gardener and artist to bring loving attention to seeds and Mother Earth as a radical act of gratitude, Bobbe talks about her journey with seeds as an artist, gardener, and activist.

Bobbe shares her Seed Story at the Ecozoic Era: plant|seed|soil art exhibition

Marion Wasserman talks about her first meeting with seeds through Hopi elder. Grandmother Carolyn, and how this brought her into a life-long relationship with film, farming, influential teachers, and of course seeds. (Photo credit Louis Leray)

Marion Wasserman tells a Seed Story about life long relationships with seed.

Nancy Sutor shares her story about the unexpected surprises that are revealed in compost, for her garden and her artistic process as a photographer.

Nancy Sutor shares her story about the unexpected surprises in compost

Stevan de la Rosa Tames shares a Seed Story from the Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Farm: Farmer Field Day in Patagonia, AZ. He talks about initially learning about the important of seeds in Thailand and then bringing this awareness with him to share with his local community in Banámichi, Sonora. To share the importance of seed, seed saving, and all the power, benefit, joy, and sovereignty that comes with it.

Stevan de la Rosa Tames talks about his dream of local seeds in Banámichi, Sonora, Mexico

Community gardener Mamie Gray shares her seed story from Chicago.

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The SeedBroadcast Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, seed libraries, farmers, gardeners, and folks who love seeds are teaming up for public seed story broadcast events across the country.

Mamie Gray, Chicago, Illinois

Marleny Alfaro, originally from the island of Cuba and now a resident of Mora, New Mexico talks about the inspiration behind the Mora Grows seed library

Marleny Alfaro talks about the seeding of the Mora Grows Seed Library

Isaura Andaluz talks about her love of stories and the relationship between bees and seeds. She also spoke about her work with Cuatro Puertas and the creation of the Arid Crops Seed Cache, as well as the issues of chile politics in New Mexico.

Isaura Andaluz talks about the stories of seeds and why we should all care.

Chalo Wells shares a seed story about seed saving practices in Titicaca, Bolivia, saving seeds from generation to generation, even through times of famine.

Chalo Wells talks about saving seeds as a cultural practice.

Saving seeds, growing food, farming for food pantries, encouraging and organizing community gardens, managing water and soil resources, four season gardening, creating biodiversity, and sharing a wealth of down-to-earth know-how, while eating the best food in the world.....Seed Stories creatively engage our communities with questions of dire importance, right NOW!  Each asks critical questions while responding with a call to action: working hard to grow food, save seeds, and share dreams of abundance to keep local farms, gardens, and food in the hands of their communities.
 
SeedBroadcast has been recording and broadcasting Seed Stories since 2011 and sharing these through online platforms, public events, interventions, presentations, and exhibitions.

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