2016 ABC Seed Exchange in Albuquerque!

Written By Jeanette Hart-Mann

SeedBroadcast will be at the ABC Seed Exchange in Albuquerque this Saturday, Feb 6. Bring a seed story with you and make an audio recording to pass on to all future generations. Your story is a vital part of our local agri-Culture! And of course bring your open pollinated seeds to share at the exchange.

Saturday, February 6, 2016
11am - 330pm

Albuquerque Main Public Library
501 Copper Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM

(505) 768-5141
mainlibrary@cabq.gov

It's the 2nd annual ABC Seed Library Seed Fest! Get ready to swap, learn and make with other seedy people!
We'll start things off with a closed seed swap for those with seed to trade and then open things up the rest of the day with lots of seed and information to share from community partners.

Schedule of events:
11-11:30: Closed Swap for Folks with seed to share.

11:30-12:30: Sean Ludden (Bosque Seed Collective) leads a workshop on saving vegetable seed.

12:30-1:30: Ruben Olguin (UNM, Artist) speaks on a history of indigenous seed collecting and leads an adobe seed pot-making workshop (all ages).

1:30-2: Dara Saville (Albuquerque Herbalism) speaks on seeds as medicine and food.

2-3:30pm: A free screening of the film Seeds of Time.

SeedBroadcast will be outside the library the whole day to share stories.

And bonus: First two hours of parking garage parking free with validation!

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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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