conference@jewishfarmernetwork.org

so excited for this!!

me too Marsha! eeeee!

What does "feminized" mean?

@rachel: I think the difference between hemp and marijuana?

Cannabis is dioecious (male & female plants). Female plants produce smokeable flowers, so feminizing seeds ensure you get high quality, seed free consumable product

YAAA

yay omaha! 😘

hi! yes I know Connor and the magnuson family

I don't live there anymore but yes. very much!

did you go to school in VT?

I am also in the Philly area and wondering how to learn more about the Lenape

for @nate: can you share who/where in the USDA you requested indigenous seed?

Efnseeds.com

Is it this? https://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/heirloom-varieties @trella

www.ars-grin.gov

I recently did a talk at the Northeast Organic Seed Conference which I believe will be posted online, if it hasn’t been already, about the practicalities of requesting seed from the USDA’s National Plant Germplasm System (via the link above)

ppppsssshhhhhhhhh

@nate: www.ars-grin.gov says site can't be reached...

It’s working for me. Huh.

I got the same error message

Same.

!!!

We’re so grateful for you!

I am already so inspired by this session. WOW.

🤩

This is working for me: https://www.ars-grin.gov/ — but it could just be in the cache. It gets updated sometimes on Sundays. It should be back.

Shalom Nate =)

That link worked!

this new link worked for me, but not the other one. thanks for sharing!

yes- working now- thank you!

maybe metaphorical, like we kept the seeds from the temples and will plant them again in the messianic age

I think globally that's been a role that Jewish immigrants have played, carrying other peoples' seeds, for centuries and centuries. we bring foods from places we're coming from to places we're going to, and have shaped global cuisine in the process. My favorite example, we brought the chickpea out of Africa and into Europe.

https://www.facebook.com/palestineheirloomseeds/

I wonder how to find seeds from ancestral places...

https://viviensansour.com/Palestine-Heirloom

That is so powerful Nate! The seed/human DNA connection…

really good question K! seeds belongs to nature and to the Creator, we should share spread and grow, honoring the history

yeah there's no pure "this is where this came from," but also, when colonizers start using indigenous seeds without getting to know them and pay the people back, it gets messy

**Reminder to add your questions into the chat as they bubble up for you! We will be collecting them for later in the session.**

I wanna learn more about the tradition of seed-keeping as a jew you just mentioned!

na’ama seed keeper for Noah arch

please don't stop :D

soooo beautiful

Makes me think about the klipah

ein sof

this is gorgeous, thank you

blown away by that teaching

y'all should follow K on Instagram @nonbinarybotany

yassss

yess!!!!!

amazing teaching, seeds as shards of concentrated light

yes yes yes!!

I have chills. Yes Betsy!

I keep thinking one of you is my favorite panelist and then I’m falling in love with each of you over and over. 😍🤩

+1

^^^

do you grow all the seeds that you sell?

Amazing! How do you spell the name of that barley?

Nebawi

Thank you!

Does anyone have seeds collected by the Ahronsohn familynin Atlit?

what about growing seeds is different from growing food plants? is it basically the same except harvesting is a little different?

In my very small seed saving practice, I have started trying to grow & save seeds of ritual or cultural foods. So, poppy seed, horseradish, all the ingredients for "kosher-style" fermented dill pickles. And all kinds of karpas :-) Curious if anyone is working with this approach.

do you have any seeds special to you in your personal family history? any specific seeds lost that you grieve for? Today reminded me of a specific apple tree in my family’s history that I now want to run off to Connecticut to collect seeds and cuttings to graft!

@Alex I grow my own horseradish specifically for the seder :) but I’ve never used seeds! it just grows from the root

same

YESSSSSSS

Thank you for naming this, K

Yessss… knowing seeds, knowing yourself

++++

<3

yesssss

Betsy, appreciate your story, thank you

Thank you betsy!

++++so important++++

Beautifully put

yesssssss

cuz its so hard to get the tools to talk about it diffierently :( schools don't teach it

love this, i am excited for my unlearning!

seed solidarity! yes!!!

Amen! Nature is queer as hell

Woah

Thank you for that K

🌈🌱

Thanks so much for that K

*cheers in non-binary*

To all the panelists - I'd love to hear more about any seeds you feel especially connected with!

^^ on what Shana said if anyone has good tools for teaching about being in relationship with seeds and etc would love those links :)

Does the government seed collection provide seeds to home gardeners or only larger farm/seed projects?

🧄

and everyone sees us as weeds

You’re more likely to get seeds from the gov’t if you’re attached to an organization (pretty much regardless of the size or scope of the organization). Seeds are only distributed for research, education, breeding, or rematriation. So if you describe your intended use of the seed and it encompasses any of that, they should give it to you. You might get some pushback, but just respond with a more detailed description of your intended use of the seeds.

but we're MEDICINE!

I was JUST going to ask what relationship do you have with seeds of plants sometimes called “weeds”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEsSsdClbNV/ sharing this resource from the indigenous Sovereign Seed Network (for those who use instagram) regarding the ethical questions around growing, saving, and/or repatriating indigenous seeds

I love that with garlic, the part that we treasure and eat is also the seed :)

it only takes one!

^^ <3

so does that mean our horseradish cuttings are identitical to what our pickling great great grandparetns used???

Same, love growing horseradish

yum horesradish

Sesame!

@AlexLyon Probably! Pretty close anyway. There are a few strains out there.

Big Same

yes

question - should all seeds be kept? this is coming from a person whose job required the saving of a particular Shaker tomato variety that’s almost inedibly disgusting - yet we put in the work every year to save the seed. what seeds should we prioritize saving?

When y’all are doing the research about a particular seed to understand its “seed story”, how do you synthesize information in a way that honors the complexity of that seed’s journey? So many seeds have difficult to trace origins and pass through many cultures/places

How do you listen to plants?

@Sam start with what you enjoy eating. :)

sounds like a Talmudic debate ;)

I imagine there's a whole industry of coming up with glorified stories about seeds' supposed origins to put on marketing

Story is damn good medicine

^ YES <3

will the schmoozes be recorded?? having a hard time deciding whether to go to the disability one or the seed one

Link to sign up for the seed story share: https://forms.gle/5mSSgEqmJ2ANAKK49

It says we need permission Sonia

that link doesn't work

i think you mean tthis? https://www.jewishfarmernetwork.org/day-two-schedule-links

https://forms.gle/S2812GFCMeBuSRom7

Same problem Shani, says we need permission

working on getting the link to work!

Thanks!

Or just

Seed Share Form: https://forms.gle/g53MmokEXmTdmjww9

Does the new link work for folks?

umm please where can we get the whole entire squash story?!?

Or just, a line of "traditionally grown" by native americans

https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/collections/corn/products/oaxacan-green-dent-corn

thanks for some great answers to my very long winded question :)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzwcaIkaUTTQ0rXUWW-cMRHznLKlrm03ukbRex_GDpic9WbA/viewform?usp=sf_link

will the schmoozes be recorded? really want to attend but have other obligations!

Thank you all so much, this has been wonderful, must leave now, it's bedtime in England! xx

Beans!

caraway!

dill!

Where can we find recordings?

I’m also starting to realize that it is a kind of sickness in my family to hide our family’s stories out of grief or shame. Trying to have compassion for that dynamic.

thank you SO much. this was incredible.

thank youuuu!!!

Thanks to all of you! You'

You

thank you!

Thanks K, Nate, and Betsy

thanks,all!!

Stern you're looking glamorous!

did we ever find out if the schmooze is recorded?

ty my oma’s blanket!!

the seed share will be recorded, but the other two schmoozes will not!

okay thank you

hugs to all!

https://www.jewishfarmernetwork.org/day-two-schedule-links