SeedBroadcast is a collective whose mission is to uplift the Culture in agri-Culture through broadcasting Seed Stories and pollinating resource networks to cultivate bioregional food and seed resilience.
Since 2011, SeedBroadcast projects have fused art, farming, gardening, seed keeping/sharing, and education with open source creative knowledge building in order to stretch and grow grassroots agri-Cultural networks and honor the spirit of seeds in our interdependent relationships. SeedBroadcast holds the belief that it is a human right to save seeds and share their gifts, to grow food and share its abundance, and to cultivate grassroots wisdom and share its creativity. These are the roots of agri-Culture to be broadcast.
We encourage communities to keep agri-Culture alive and vibrant through working together in creative and inspiring ways. Spending time with people on their farms and in their gardens, at seed exchanges and community gatherings, SeedBroadcast digs deep into the oft-unheard stories of local agri-Culture.
Our work includes community-based projects, installations, dialogues, and creative actions. Interdisciplinary collaboration is a founding principal of all SeedBroadcast activities where cohorts from diverse backgrounds work together as critical partners of inquiry and creative production.
Just as seeds share their generosity with us through thousands of years of resiliency, farming, food, and a deep ecology of relations, we can share this back by giving voice to the seeds, gardens, plants, soils, and food in our lives. This is the intent behind Seed Stories, to honor these and the people who care for them.
SeedBroadcast was initiated by Jeanette Hart-Mann and Chrissie Orr in 2011 at the Compartiendo Semillas, Sembrando el Futuro, Seed Exchange, in Las Vegas, New Mexico. In 2024, Rachel Bordeleau joined SeedBroadcast. Other SeedBroadcasters include: Ruben Olguin from 2016 - 2019 and Kaitlin Bryson from 2022 - 2023.
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2022
SeedBroadcast, multi-day performative installation and community engagement event, Smithsonian Folklife Earth Optimism Festival, Washington D.C. June 22 - July 4, 2022.
2019
SEED: Climate Change Resilience Community Engagement Events and Summer Collaborations, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM. Opening Seed Ceremony; Public Garden Earthwork, A Garden: The Birds Arrive; Seed Poetry; Grain School; Seed Swap and LAAW Performances; Axle Contemporary, Potato Project; Radical Intervention; Encentro de Semillas Panel Discussion; Qachuu Aloom Amaranth Harvest.
2018
Community Engagement with farmers in Acoma, La Vilita, Española and Hogback, New Mexico.
2017
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, day long to multi-day performative installation and community engagement event, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Patagonia, AZ, Ówînegh Táh Pueblos Y Semillas Gathering, Abiquiú, NM, Pueblo de San Ildefonso, San Ildefonso, NM, Homegrown Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, ABC Seed Library, Albuquerque, NM, Bees + Seeds, Albuquerque, NM, Northern Youth Project, Abiquiú, NM, Rocky Mountain Seed Summit, Santa Fe, NM, Rita Marquez School, Anton Chico, NM.
2016
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, day long to multi-day performative installation and community engagement events, Pueblo de Tesuque, Tesuque, NM, Acoma Pueblo, Acoma, NM, The Commons, Silver City, NM, Ówînegh Táh Pueblos Y Semillas, Nambe Pueblo, NM, Jean Cocteau Theater, Santa Fe, NM, Biodynamic Conference, Santa Fe, NM, ABC Seed Exchange, Albuquerque, NM, Dandelion Festival, Durango, CO, Homegrown Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, New Mexico State Capital, Santa Fe, NM, Taos Seed Exchange, Taos, NM, Compartiendo las Semillas en Anton Chico, Anton Chico, NM, UNM Sustainability Expo, Albuquerque, NM, Guild Theater, Albuquerque, NM, Civic Plaza Earth Day, Albuquerque, NM, Bees + Seeds, Albuquerque, NM, Escuela del Sol, Albuquerque, NM, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2015
|UN|silo|ED| SEEDS, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
2015
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, day long to multi-day performative installation and community engagement event, Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts Downtown Block Party, Albuquerque, NM, Celebración de Culturas y Tradiciones, Peñasco, NM, Bees and Seeds Festival, Tiguex Park, Albuquerque, NM, Lunch@SFAI, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Albuquerque Community Day, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM, UrbanRefuge A.R.T.S., Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge, Albuquerque, NM, Sierra County Farmers’ Market, Truth or Consequences, NM, International Seed Library Forum, University of Arizona and Pima County Library, Tucson, AZ, Spring Hoedown and Seed Swap, Montezuma School to Farm and Mancos Public Library, Mancos, CO, Balboa Park, City of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Chicano Art Gallery, Barrio Logan San Diego, CA, A Thousand Plates Exhibition, SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA, Patagonia Semillotecas, Patagonia, AZ, Silver City Garden Expo, Silver City, NM, ABC Seed Swap, Juan Tabo Public Library, Albuquerque, NM, Santa Fe Seed Exchange, Frenchy’s Field, Santa Fe, NM, Compartiendo las Semillas en Anton Chico, Anton Chico Economic Development Center, Anton Chico, NM.
2014
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM Albuquerque BioPark, Albuquerque, NM, Westcliffe Seed Library, Westcliffe, CO, Ridgway Seed Library, Ridgway, CO, Mancos Seed Library, Mancos, CO, MountainFilm Telluride, Telluride, CO, New Mexico Land Office, Santa Fe, NM, UNM Earthday, Albuquerque, Native Seed/SEARCH, Tucson, AZ, Anton Chico Seed Swap, Anton Chico, NM, Mora Seed Library, Mora, Juan Tabo Seed Library, Albuquerque, NM, Santa Fe Seed Exchange, Frenchy’s Field, Santa Fe, NM.
2014
SWAP, Iowa City, Ely, Decorah, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (in collaboration with Carolyn Scherf)
2013
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, Gathering for Mother Earth, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM (in collaboration with Land Arts of the American West)
2013
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, Tri-County Farmers’ Market, Las Vegas, NM, March Against Monsanto, New Mexico Roundhouse. Santa Fe, NM, SEEDS: A Collective Voice, Downtown Contemporary Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Our Actions Matter, ABQ Biopark, Albuquerque, NM, In Seeds We Trust/Green Revolution, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ, Pima County Seed Library, Tucson, AZ, Feast on the Street. Phoenix, AZ, Native Seed/SEARCH, Tucson, AZ, Compartiendo Semillas en Anton Chico, Anton Chico, NM, Mora Seed Library, Tapetes de Lana, Mora, NM, Santa Fe Seed Exchange, Frenchy’s Field, Santa Fe, NM, Seed 4, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM (SeedBroadcast Collective)
2012
Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station, ISEA2012 Block Party, 516 Arts and Creative Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, Central Arkansas University Seed Lab, Conway, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, Capital City Farmers Market, Montpelier, VT, Rutland Public Library, Rutland, VT, Hudson Valley Seed Library, Accord, NY, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, UIC, Chicago, Du Quoin Public Library, Du Quoin, IL, Lawrence Farmers Market, Lawrence, KS, Manitou Public Library, Manitou Springs, CO
2011
Mapping the Open Pollinated, Compartiendo Semillas, Las Vegas, NM
Interviews in the Field. Mora, San Miguel, and Guadalupe Counties, NM
Meeting of the Seeds, Fodder Project Collaborative Research Farm, Anton Chico, NM
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2023
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #20, Print and online.
2022
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #19, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #18, Print and online.
2021
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #17, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #16, Print and online.
2020
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #15, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #14, Print and online.
2019
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, SEED: CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #12, Print and online.
2018
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #11, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #10, Print and online.
2017
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #9, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #8, Print and online.
2016
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #7, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #6, Print and online.
2015
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, #5, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, Spring 2015, Print and online.
2014
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, Fall 2014, Print and online.
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, Spring 2014, Print and online.
2013
SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal, Fall 2013, Print and online.
2012
How to…, April 2012, Print and online.
2011
Collective Seed Book Broadcast, July 2011, Print and online.
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2019
SEED: Climate Change Resilience. Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2021
News Room. Hotam Press Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2017
RE|SOURCE: Unpacking the Archive. Rainosek Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
2016
Broadcast, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Ecozoic Era: Plant|Seed|Soil, New Mexico State Capital, Santa Fe, NM.
2014
Fertile Ground Conference, North Lights Arts, Dunbar, Scotland.
Exuberant Politics, SWAP, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
Exuberant Politics, SWAP, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2012
Seed 4. Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM. es here
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Artist Residencies
Santa Fe Art Institute Food Justice Residency, Santa Fe, NM. 2015
Publications
“Edible Original,” agri-Culture Journal. Autumn 2014.
“SeedBroadcast Featured at MountainFilm Ice Cream Social,” TellurideInside. May 17, 2014.
“SeedBroadcast,” Here, La Frontera/Borderlands, 2014.
“agri-Culture,” Edible Santa Fe, Issue 31, Spring 2014.
Visiting Artist Presentations, Panels, and Performative Workshops
“SeedBroadcast,” Smithsonian Folklife Earth Optimism Festival, Washington D.C. June 22 - July 4, 2022.
“SeedBroadcast,” Native Seed/SEARCH Conservation Farm, Patagonia, AZ, March 2017.
“Seed Story Workshop,” Mountain West Seed Summit, Santa Fe, NM. March 2017.
“RE|SOURCE: Unpacking the Archive.” Garcia Honda Auditorium, UNM School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. March 2017.
“SeedBroadcast,” Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM. February 2016.
“Seed Story Workshop,” Pueblo de Tesuque, Tesuque, NM. April 2016.
“Seed Story Workshop,” Acoma Pueblo, Acoma, NM. April 2016.
“Oral Histories and Cultural Memory-Banking Documentation for Seed Libraries,” Drachman Institute, International Seed Library Forum at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, May 4, 2015.
“Publicizing Seed Libraries and Their Missions in Your Community,” Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Pima County Library, Tucson, AZ, May 5, 2015.
“Food and Art,” San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego Art Council, San Diego, CA, March 26, 2015.
Seed Story Workshop, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM
“SeedBroadcast,” Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM.
“SeedBroadcast and Seed Stories,” Native Seed/SEARCH, Tucson, AZ.
“SeedBroadcast,” Luna Community College, Las Vegas, NM.
“SeedBroadcast,” Tapetes de Lana, Las Vegas, NM.
“SeedBroadcast,” Creating Change, Feast on the Street, Phoenix, AZ.
“SeedBroadcast,” Land Arts of the American West, Pojoaque, NM.
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Ashley Dawson, A. Naomi Paik; Germinations: An Introduction. Radical History Review 1 , January 2023; 2023 (145): 1–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10063488
T.J. Demos, Scott, Emily Eliza, and Banerjee, Subhankar, editors. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, Routledge, NY. 2021. Print.
Christine Salem. “SeedBroadcast.” Santa Fe Public Radio. February 10, 2018.
Ruben Olguin. “SeedBroadcast Presenting Voices.” Green Fire Times. September 2017. pp. 29. Online and Print.
Michael Abatemarco. “Earth of a Nation.” Pasatiempo. 6 May, 2016. Online
Jackie Jadrnak. ‘Ecozoic’ exhibition explores our connection to nature through plants, seeds, soil.” Albuquerque Journal. 6 May, 2016. Online and Print.
Melissa Kruse-Peeples. “Seed Sovereignty Events in New Mexico.” Native Seed/SEARCH Newsletter. 5 May, 2106. Online.
Elizabeth Miller. “Seeds of Change.” Santa Fe Reporter. 4 May, 2016. Online and Print
Gail Snyder. “plant, seed, soil.” Local Flavor. June 2016. Online and Print
Brian Campbell and Veteto, James. “Free seeds and food sovereignty: anthropology and grassroots agrobiodiversity conservation strategies in the US South.” The Journal of Political Ecology 22. 2015: 458-459. Online.
Cindy Conner. “Seed Libraries: And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of People,” New Society Publishers, February 2015.
Jennifer Esperanza. “Green Planet.” THE Magazine May 2015: 59. Magazine.
Karen Fasimpaur. “Forum Sows Big Ideas About Tiny Seeds.” The Daily Yonder. 10 May 2015. Online.
Eden Kinkaid. “What is Your Seed Story? FoodTank.com. 13 June 2015. Online. 14 June 2015.
Ken Lamberton. “Seed Saviors.” Edible Baja May/June 2015: 132. Magazine.
Seth Roffman. “|UN|silo|ED| SeedBroadcast.” Greenfire Times June 2015: 21. Newspaper.
Seed Freedom Report: A Global Citizens’ Report “USA - SeedBroadcast.” NAVDANYA International, Firenze, Italy, April 2015. Pg 96 – 99.
Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds. Sean Kaminsky. Open Pollinated Productions, 2014. Feature Film.
Seth Cagin. “The SeedBroadcast Project Promotes Deeper Awareness of Seeds.” The Watch, Vol. 18 No. 21, May 22, 2014.
Tom Yoder, The Zine, KSJD Dryland Community Radio. May 22, 2014. Radio Interview.
Temporary Services, “Mobile Protest,” Mobile Phenomena, Chicago, IL: Half Letter Press. 2012
Bonnie Fortune, “A Mythical Quarter Interview with SeedBroadcast,” http://mythologicalquarter.net/2012/08/13/video-interview-with-seed-broadcast August 12, 2012.
Candace Krebs, “Mobile bank storing seed saving story,” AG Journal, Vol. 62.49, July 27, 2012.
Ramon Gonzales , “Seed Broadcast Station is Traveling the Country Recording Seed Saver Stories,” TreeHugger. July 16, 2012. http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/bread-truck-converted-mobile-seed-library-traveling-country-collecting-seed-saver-stories.html
John H. Croessman, “Seed Libraries: A Crazy Idea That Grows on You.” Du Quoin Evening Call. July 11, 2012.
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Kates Fund for Women, 2024, $5000
Anonymous Grant through Santa Fe Community Foundation, 2023. $5000.
Puffin Foundation, 2022, $1750.
Nomad Interdisciplinary MFA Honorarium, University of Hartford, 2022, $4000.
Anonymous Grant through Santa Fe Community Foundation, 2021, $5000.
Anonymous Grant through Santa Fe Community Foundation, 2020, $5000.
Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, 2020, $900.
Anonymous Grant through Santa Fe Community Foundation, 2019-20, $12500.
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, 2019-20, $25000.
Puffin Foundation Grant, 2019, $2500.
Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, 2019, $5000.
Nomad Interdisciplinary MFA Honorarium, University of Hartford, 2019, $4000.
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, SeedBroadcast, 2018-19, $10000
Anonymous Grant through Santa Fe Community Foundation, 2018-19, $10000
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant SeedBroadcast, 2017-18, $10000
Anonymous Grant through Santa Fe Community Foundation, 2017-18, $15000
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, SeedBroadcast, 2016-17, $20000
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Climate Change Solutions Fund Grant in partnership with Native Seeds/SEARCH, 2015-17, $15000
516 ARTS, Habitat Block Party Grant, 2015, $300
Albuquerque Museum Honorarium, SeedBroadcast, 2015, $200
International Seed Library Forum Honorarium, 2015, $870
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, UN|silo|ED, 2015, $1000
2015-16 McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, 2015-16, $20000
SDSU Arts Council and Common Experience Honorarium, 2015, $1300.
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, 2014-15, $12500
Kindle Project Grant, 2013, $5000
2013-14 McCune Charitable Foundation Grant, 2013-14, $12500
Kindle Project Grant, 2012, $5000
