Seedkeepers, with Rowen White | Tea Talks with Jiling

Mar 8, 2024

Rowen White is a Seed Keeper, farmer, and author from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty.  She is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds, an innovative Indigenous seed bank and land-based educational organization located in Nevada City, CA. Rowen is the Founder of the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network, which is committed to restoring the Indigenous Seed Commons, and currently serves as a Cooperative Seed Hub Coordinator.

Jiling and Rowen discuss

• Apprenticing to seeds and planets
• The cycle of seasons
• Reverent curiosity
• Rematriation and reconnection with Land
• An economy of care
• Regrowing a culture that loves seeds as Medicine and Earth as Mother
• Ancestral food work
• The kincentric intercultural landscape of food
• How to start seed-saving!

Visit Rowen White at SierraSeeds.org and Instagram @RowenWhite

Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) and herbalist in Ventura, CA. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com, Instagram @LinJiling, and Facebook @JilingLAc. Get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template, Five Phases (五行) outline, or sign up for her newsletter here.

 

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