Seedkeeping, Cooperation and Community Building: Everyday Acts of Resistance in Agriculture

Black and brown people are integral as workers in food and agriculture but are largely missing from the stories of cooperative organizing in agriculture, heirloom seeds and seed savers. Be inspired by historic accounts of black cooperative action and learn how tradition, taste, place and storytelling can work to preserve biodiversity and reclaim the place of black and brown people in issues of food sovereignty, farming, heirloom varieties and regional cuisine today. These elders in seed work, will discuss culturally meaningful crops and foods, then share their visions of empowering future generations.