ROWEN M WHITE on Seed Rematriation and Fertile Resistance [ENCORE] /291

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Rowen White originally aired in July of 2020. Across Turtle Island, seeds have long been passed down through the generations — accompanied by ceremony and prayer, reverent seed cultures, and sustainable food growing practices. Through eras of colonization and acculturation, however, we’ve seen the consolidation of seeds into a handful of corporations and the production of a soulless industrial food landscape. This system is failing us and, as centralized infrastructure strains and buckles, we turn to the embrace of our community and the nurturance of seeds at the local and village level. This episode is all about renewal and reanimation, as our guest Rowen White shares her thoughts on Indigenous food sovereignty, seed restoration as rematriation, and what it means to bring seed relatives home. Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds.Music by Madelyn Ilana.Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points. Support the show

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0:46.0	Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayania. Today we're joined by Rowan White, a seed keeper
0:59.2	farmer from the Melha community of Aquasasne, and a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and
1:05.8	food sovereignty. Rowan is the educational director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds, an innovative
1:13.4	land-based educational organization located in Nevada City, California. She is the national program
1:19.9	coordinator for the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network, which is an initiative of the Native American
1:24.8	Food Sovereignty Alliance, a non-profit organization aimed at leveraging resources to support tribal
1:30.9	food sovereignty projects. Rowan is also the chair of the Board of Directors of Seeds Savers Exchange,
1:37.8	the largest public access seed bank in North America. Follow her journeys at syracedes.org.
1:49.1	Well, welcome to the show, Rowan. I am so grateful for this time that we have together
1:54.8	to explore the many threads you're weaving through this beautiful work of seed sovereignty,
2:00.0	and like I mentioned earlier, the little time I was able to spend with you and your family on your
2:06.3	farm has stuck with me, and I am just so personally excited to connect with you today, so thank you
2:14.2	so much for being with us. Well, thank you. Thank you for the invitation. Well, before we dig into
2:22.3	your initiatives with Sierra Seeds and Indigenous Seed Keeper Network, I'd like to just offer you
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