Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What can grief teach us about being truly alive? And how might seeds, and the compassionate acts of tending to them, be the “helpers and teachers” of mediating our collective grief?

In this episode, we are honored to welcome Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project—an initiative centered on caring for and preserving seeds as keepers of ancestral connection and models of subversive advocacy.

Join us as Vivien shares about the systemic violence of disconnection and relational severance, the socio-economic pressures turning many historically food-centered farms into monocultural plantations of commercial tobacco for export, how Palestinian agriculturalists are standing up to reclaim food sovereignty, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey there, this is your host, Kamea. I hope you had a restful holiday season and that your start to this new year has been all of the things that you might need during this time.
0:11.7	As we move deeper into 2025, first of all, I'm so excited to share the many conversations we already have in the pipeline for you this season.
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1:03.7	whatever forms of support you're able to share with us. For now, enjoy the show. Our stories are connected to the stories of our soil and our seeds.
1:16.4	And so with each story, which holds the story of a whole village sometimes or a whole family,
1:25.3	there is a lot of grief as much as there is life.
1:32.3	Hey, it's Kamea and you're listening to Green Dreamer. Today we are honored to speak with Vivian
1:38.6	Sensor, an artist, storyteller, researcher, culinary historian, and conservationist, who works with a global
1:46.2	network of farmers and seed advocates to promote seed conservation and agrobial diversity.
1:52.3	As part of this effort, she founded the Palestine heirloom seed library, with the goals of finding
1:57.7	and reintroducing threatened crop varieties, and to collect stories to assert the ownership of seeds by communities.
2:09.3	My home is a simple place that is very, very complex.
2:15.5	And I love that juxtaposition that's always there, like in the tenderness of the space and yet with the ruggedness of the terrain.
2:27.1	And I love rocks and how they endure and speak of centuries and histories and you touch it,
2:41.1	you touch a rock and you can feel a whole world of past and future even.
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