Agri-Culture Journal #23
“Each thing organizes the space around it... shouting with their loud colors or whispering with their seeds" David Abram
It’s that time of year, the light is shifting, the darkness, you can feel it in your bones. Cooler air circulates conjuring up the much-needed moisture. The thunder and lightning arrived late this year; they came with the winds, at last bringing the monsoon rains. A relief to the parched earth, but the heavy downpours bounced off the soils hardened surface flooding some of the Northern New Mexican acequias and the scorched lands of summer fires.
The beauty and the grief.
The trees greening and humming with the Flickers red feathers. Hawks circling looking for prey, coyotes coming close to the bedroom door, skunks hiding in the irrigation pipe. All is moving, recalibrating to grow into seed, to burrow underground, to shed those greened leaves and to migrate.
Harvest is upon us, apples dropping, corn husks turning golden, the delicate white flowers of buckwheat now gray-black seed, the time of abundance and reciprocity, leave some for the critters, share some with the neighbors, save the seed for next year. Can we?
During this seasonal change we can feel untethered, the seasons come and go, revive and dissipate, breathing in and out.
We breathe together.
We have always moved with the revolution but now all has shifted, has turned upside down. The rains coming late, and stronger, the summers hotter and longer, it’s hard to tell the truth of the complexity engulfing us. The plants were unhurried this year, slow to produce but they nourished us as much as they could.
As we eat the carrots, boil the potatoes, grind the grain do we remember to give thanks, do we remember that the seed we planted turned herself inside out for us. It’s a collaboration, a relational life force between us and the world around us.
We at SeedBroadcast have been learning from the incredible capacity of our seeds, are dedicated to what they teach us and in return offer our kinship to keep their nurturing stories alive and in good health. We believe and are acting on keeping the seeds alive.
Might you?
We too are seeds…
This issue is dedicated with deep bow of gratitude to all the peoples of the world who are facing rapid changes to their homelands, with the ongoing fires, floods, hurricanes and erratic weather patterns and violence that are threating their survival and the survival of their seeds, lands, plants, animals. And cultural belonging.
The printed versions of this edition can be found at your local Co-ops, farmers markets and you might even find a surprise in your CSA! Do look out for them and let us know what you think.
A digital version is also available to read or download from our journal archive.
Our 24th edition will be published in the Spring of 2026,
the deadline is April 13th 2026.
There is information on how to submit in the Journal.
A huge shout out to all that submitted to this 23rd edition:
Meredith Maines, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Gunjan Koul, Susanna Carlise, Sara Wright, Pangea World Theater, Jai Knight, Christy Johnson, Christina Meadows, Nancy Sutor, Irene Terronez, Anne Hayes, Addison Kerwin, Miguel Valenzuela, Emily Romero, Iren Schio, Basia Irland, Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, Rachel Bordeleau.
This issue is dedicated with deep bow of gratitude to all the peoples of the world who are facing rapid changes to their homelands, with the ongoing fires, floods, hurricanes and erratic weather patterns and violence that are threatening their survival and the survival of their seeds, lands, plants, animals. And cultural belonging.
“From Latin America, we call on Ukraine and Russia to make peace. Only in peace can we save life in this land of ours. There is no total peace without social, economic and environmental justice. We are also at war with the planet. Without peace with the planet, there will be no peace among nations. Without social justice, there is no social peace.”
Gustavo Petro, the new President of Colombia