Welcome to Seeding Sovereignty’s new Mutual Aid Farm!
The mission of Seeding Sovereignty’s Mutual Aid Farm within our Community Care Program is to model abundance and grow and cultivate generative relationships with the lands, waters, plants and community members to counter the impact of escalating climate change and food insecurity. We nurture the movement for food sovereignty through BIPOC stewardship, and in kinship with Queer and Trans folks through peer to peer skill share and free food and seed distribution to communities in need who are failed by current systems.
The Mutual Aid Farm grows and distributes free food and seeds to those facing food insecurity, saves seeds for future farming projects, and also hosts online and in-person events centered on agriculture and community care and food sovereignty.
Join us for Our Earth Month Online Event Series -
“Food Sovereignty and Farming Lessons from the High Desert”
We hope you have spent time connecting with Mother Earth; both celebrating her and protecting her.
As Earth Month winds to a close, we invite you to join us for our three-part online event series hosted by Community Care Coordinator Serpentina Sanchez with guest teacher Acoma Pueblo farmer Aaron Lowden.
Join us from our new Mutual Aid Farm in the high desert of New Mexico that grows and distributes free food and seeds to fight food insecurity.
SEED REMATRIATION: RETURNING STOLEN SEEDS TO THE ORIGINAL CARE Teed Rematriation: Returning Stolen Seeds to the Original Care Takers
4/27 4pm PST/5pm MST/7pm EST
The communal practice of sharing food and seed has always been ingrained in indigenous communities. Much of our indigenous seeds have made their way into the hands of collectors, museums, and seed banks. After years of being displaced, indigenous seed keepers have worked to have their seeds returned home through a movement called Rematriation; the process of returning seeds back into our indigenous nations and mother soils. In this workshop, we will learn how young farmers in Acoma Pueblo committed to the Rematriation of Acoma seeds and what this has meant to the community.