hey all, i'm Jordan (he/they) joining from ancestral homelands of the Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Peoria, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Sac, Sioux, and Illinois Nations. So-called western suburbs of Chicago (ancestral lands of the Three Fires Council including the Odawa & Ojibwe Nations). Happy to be here, if I were a weather event I would be a rainbow after a mid-summer rain <3

Hi, Salman from Madison-WI. Weather was cold today but with nice sunny day.

hi, emily in Chicago....if I were weather i'd be cloudy after finding out about the lockdown coming on monday

Hello all! I'm (Glad) Matthew Gladly (they/them) - I would be a a fall day with gentle wind

froze

Hi, my name is Lisa (she/her) calling from Pilsen, Chicago, homelands of all the nations Jordan mentioned ++. If I had to be a type of weather I’d be snow in December

She's frozen on my end too !

Pooj (they/them) . I would like to the weather/microclimate inside of a tree hollow <3 Joining from Chicago echoing the land acknowledgement that jordan provided

Emily!! I feel that

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That's awesome!

I really appreciate this creation story and its parallels with one of the creation stories of the Yoruba tradition of Ifa in West Africa

yes, sewing seeds into clothing

I really appreciate that connection between plant, animal, human to keep generations of each life going

I bought a copy of the updated version of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer earlier today (bought it from a Black woman owned bookstore in Chicago called Semicolon) <3

powerful

so-called "pests" have to eat too

very beautiful corn! (both of them)

the marigold seeds are so abundent

hahahaha

do you cut back your joe pye weed?

can you talk more about what stratification is and why we should store our seeds in the fridge?

How many different kind of vegetable seeds you produce?

if I am not planting for a season do I need to put them in the refrigerator.

thank you!

When building an indigenous garden/farm how do we go about finding and acquiring our communities Native seeds? In my case, Nigerian seeds?

do you offer classes folx can take for further education about how to grow sustainably?

medical plants are usually perinals . do the need to be cold storage or can they just be down out side

Thank you

how can we support your work?

What are some of the most common mistakes made by new seed savers?

https://www.tricksterculturalcenter.org/

thank you !

can they be stored in plastic tubs

any books you'd recommend?

"plants have so much to give us all we have to do is ask"- book title

I store them in brown paper bags. them after a while I put them in glass baby food jars. which is best

any seed identification resources you can recommend? Its sometimes difficult to tell the seeds from the chaff

thank you so much for sharing your time, knowledge, and care

seconded! thank you!

Thank you!!

thank you!!

thank you!!

thanks you! Jazmin TY for facilitating this :)

thanks so much for sharing your wisdom with us <3

yes thank you jazmin!