It’s Not by chance at all
This series of photo montage triptychs were created by SeedBroadcast in collaboration with Aaron Lowden of Acoma Ancestral Lands Farm Corp Program, Beata Tsosie-Peña of Española Healing Foods Oasis/Tewa Women United, and Ron Boyd, Debora Clare of Mer- Girl Gardens. Each was generated by combining thousands of seasonal photographs taken by SeedBroadcast from spring through summer and autumn harvest and then working with these farmers to develop meaningful visual language for these works.These triptychs depict the cycles of agri-Culture, from seed to seed, hand to hand, from land and community over time, as these farmers, and the people and seeds they work with, nurture resiliency and climate appropriate agri-Culture on their land and in their communities.
Archival Pigment Prints on Cotton Rag, 168” x 144”
Española Healing Foods Oasis
Valdez Park, Española, NM
Española Healing Foods Oasis is an edible foods, pollinator, and natural dye garden utilizing Indigenous dry-land farming techniques and sustainable principles. It was envisioned by Beata Tsosie-Peña of Tewa Women United’s Environmental Health and Justice Program, the City of Española, Christie Green of Down To Earth, LLC, and her community as a way to reconnect to plants, water, air, seeds and all the elements, in order to strengthen the movement to end all forms of violence against women, girls, and our Earth Grandmother.This project began in 2016 and with over 4,500+ hours of volunteer work, the community has transformed a barren slope in Valdez Park, Española, New Mexico into a garden fed with harvested rainwater, restored with myco- and bioremediation, and filled with an abundance of food, Native medicinal herbs and plants, accessible walkways, and aesthetic beauty.
ACOMA ANCESTRAL LANDS FARM CORP PROGRAM
ACOMA PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO
Acoma Ancestral Land Farm Corp program seeks to revitalize the agricultural practices of the Haak’umeh through our young people and young adults. Both traditional dryland and flood irrigation techniques are taught and practiced as well as non-traditional methods. No matter the method, the program operates from the culture-based core value that everything has a life. In sowing the seeds in the land, we are creating new life that we view literally as our children. As the seed grows through its life cycle of creation, youth, adulthood, and old age we see ourselves in our seed and can care for it as such with our program.
The crops grown are divided three ways; a portion to the members for their work, a free portion to the elders of the Acoma Senior Center and the last for seed.The seed is preserved for future use for the program and are shared with the Acoma community for free, so that our heirloom varieties are not lost.
MERGIRL GARDENS
LA VILLITA, NEW MEXICO
Mer-Girl Gardens is a 5 acre Farm in La Villita, New Mexico run by Ron Boyd and his wife, Debora.They tend about 500 fruit trees, along with berry brambles, and a large variety of vegetables and culinary herbs. Seed saving is central to their farm.They grow several types of open pollinated corn, beans, onions, and cucumber seeds specifically for sale to seed companies and for future generations on their farm. Ron’s farming also includes innovating small-scale, no-to-low fossil fuel tools for planting, cultivating, harvest, and processing.They love to share their farm and welcome visitors and interns alike.
