Compartiendo Semillas en Anton Chico

Written By Jeanette Hart-Mann
The first annual seed exchange is coming up this Saturday, April 6, in the vibrant agricultural community of Anton Chico, New Mexico. SeedBroadcast will be there with the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station to share our seedy activity, while broadcasting and listening to Seed Stories.

Corn varieties from Fodder Project Collaborative Research Farm, Anton Chico, New Mexico
Here is the schedule for this event and we hope to see everyone there!

Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 9am - 2pm
Anton Chico Community Center

Schedule
730am - 900am - Seed Packaging - bring your seeds to package in envelopes
900am - Noon - Workshops
Break for lunch - Home cooked lunch provided
100pm - 200pm - Seed Exchange

Workshops include
  • Hoop Houses (including plans)
  • Water Harvesting
  • Composting
  • Seed Saving
  • Starting a small garden in drought times
  • Bee Keeping
  • Farmers' Market
  • Sustaining foods from the home garden (including local recipes)
  • Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station
Everyone is welcome....event is free to all!
It is not necessary to bring seeds to participate
Questions and RSVP - call Jeanette Hart-Mann at 575-427-0037 or Pearl Maestas at 575-512-5100

Sponsored by Guadalupe SWCD and Guadalupe County Extension Office

Jeanette Hart-Mann

Jeanette Hart-Mann is a farmer, artist, activist and teacher committed to the transformative potential of traditional ecological knowledge, embodied land-based practices, creative engagement and more-than-human-relationships. Her current research is focused on agroecology, environmental justice, and eco-social storytelling. Her practice is iterative, emergent and interdisciplinary. She weaves farming, wild crafting, and ecological restoration with video, sculpture, photography, installation, fiber arts, and writing. Hart-Mann is Co-Founder and Co-Director of SeedBroadcast (seedbroadcast.org) an artist collective committed to uplifting the culture in agri-Culture through creative public engagement, Seed Stories and seed sharing. She is also lead farmer, seed steward, and shepherdess at HawkMoth Farm where she is designing and implementing experimental climate-resilient polycultures through integrative plant, animal, soil, and human habitation while producing food for local communities.  Hart-Mann is Co-Director of RAVEL at The University of New Mexico and Associate Professor of Art & Ecology. RAVEL is a field-based Art & Ecology program supporting the intersection of place-based research through art making, community-engagement and professional practice. She received her BFA, summa cum laude and University Honors, summa cum laude at The University of New Mexico and her MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

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