Follow up to Seeds of Hope Event: Resources

We hope that you were able to attend our virtual panel discussion on Sunday, March 7 on seed saving, stewardship & sovereignty in celebration of International Women’s Day, Seeds of Hope - A Discussion on Seed Stewardship & Tending Community.

If you were unable to make the discussion, we invite you to watch the recording of the event here.

Katie Gourley, the panel moderator, has compiled a list of resources for those looking to learn to save their own seeds, as well as those looking to dive deeper into the political ecology of seed. Of course, this list only barely scratches the surface of the universe of knowledge out there about these topics!

Happy discovering… 

PANELISTS & MODERATOR WORK

• Spring Alaska Schreiner, Founder + Farmer, Sakari Farms

• Michelle Week, Founder + Farmer, Good Rain Farm and Save Our Seeds CSA

• Lane Selman, Founder, Culinary Breeding Network

• Katie Gourley: “It Starts with a Seed” 

MEDIA

• “Slow Food’s Position Paper on Seeds”

• Slow Food: Share a Seed Initiative 

• Saving Seeds with Scott Change-Fleeman of Shao Shan Farm 

• Organic Seed Alliance

• Seed Savers Exchange

• Seed Rematriation, by Rowen White  

• “The Native Seed Pod: an antidote to the monoculture” (podcast series) from the Cultural Conservancy

• Seeds and Their People (podcast series), from True Love Seeds

• Saving and Sharing Seeds from Cultivate Oregon 

• 'If You Own the Seeds You Own the Food System': Campaigners Demand Public Ownership to Counter Big Ag Privatization

BOOKS 

• The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving from Seed Savers Exchange

• Sowing Seeds in the Desert, by Mansanobu Fukuoka

• The Seed Underground, by Janisse Ray 

• Seed of Resistance: the Fight to Save Our Food Supply, by Mark Schapiro 

• Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

• Seed to Seed, by Suzanne Ashworth

• The Unlikely Peace at Cuchamaquic, by Martin Prechtel

• Cultural Memory and Biodiversity ,by Virginia Nazarea 

• The Organic Seed Grower by John Navazio