SeedBroadcasting from Lobo Growers Market and UNM Sustainability Expo

UNM Cornell Mall on Earth Day

SeedBroadcast partnered up with University of New Mexico Lobo Growers Market and Sustainability Expo for a celebration of Earth Day and the seeds that grow Earth. Located on Cornell Mall on the main campus of University of New Mexico, this gathering was organized by the Sustainability Studies Program and brought together the Lobo Growers Market, food trucks, and a variety of local organizations dedicated to healthy and vibrant communities in common with resilient environments.

Spring greens and beets

Farmers and gardeners are just beginning spring harvest and they were at the Lobo Growers Market selling salad and braising greens along with root crops and summer transplants. There was much talk of the season ahead and the gardening optimism for an abundant and successful year to come.

Red Tractor Farm had a dozen varieties of tomatoes for sale
Juan selling greens at Los Jardines Institute growers stand.

Diverse organizations were present to inspire ecologic and caring relationships among people, plants, animals, resources, and wisdom. Implementing art and creativity, healing and learning, empowerment and action, good food and community the Sustainability Expo offered a truly public space for the celebration of Earth Day. As the University commons demonstrated people from all walks of life participated.

Seed Balls
RAICES Remembering Ancestors-Inspiring Culture-Empowering Self
SEEDS: A Collective Voice, Communty Seed Mural

At the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station folks came by to listen to seed stories, copy seed saving information, pick up seeds from our seed library, and talk about seeds and why they matter so much.


A group of elementary students from Monte Vista Elementary showed up to take a closer look at seeds and help draw pictures to add to the seed story bulletin board. One young student demonstrated the goggled eye approach to having fun while learning.


Here are several seed stories from some awesome, inspiring, and gracious growers of the seed revolution.









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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