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Host Charity Nebbe speaks with expert readers and author Diane Wilson about her novel The Seed Keeper for this archive edition of the Talk of Iowa book club.

In place of our regular Hudson Mohawk Magazine programing, today we share this episode of The Aunties Dandelion podcast called "Auntie Kahehtoktha - Keeper of the Seeds." Show notes: EPISODE SUMMARY NARRATOR: On this episode of The Aunties Dandelion – an interview with Kahehtoktha Janice Brant - a Kanyen'kehà:ka Mohawk farmer, Seed Keeper, and co-founder of the Kenté:ke Seed Sanctuary. Janice and her Tyendinega collaborators recently took over care of a seed collection held by nuns for decades at a nearby convent. It's been a journey of community engagement, discernment and the creation of a new and original wampum belt to honor the transfer of the seeds. KAHEHTOKTHA JANICE BRANT: When you open that husk – it is like you are looking at an infant. You are looking at a baby. You are looking at the future generations and to me that is extremely humbling and extremely powerful. They have been around for a long time and here they are still. NARRATOR: That power behhcomes a push back against our over culture -- and Kahehtoktha discusses the risks of caring for seeds with an intention sovereignty. KAHEHTOKTHA JANICE BRANT: We are not trying to create control over the seeds. In fact just quite the opposite. We are trying to make seeds available to people to make healthier, stronger seeds available to people. So you can see how that sort of – just given that flip of the paradigm can make it a dangerous game to play. And so we have to be careful and we get stopped at the border. You become sort of like a terrorist almost in the same – we are dangerous because we are in charge of freedom and you are free when you have your own food.

In place of our regular Hudson Mohawk Magazine programing, today we share this episode of The Aunties Dandelion podcast called "Auntie Kahehtoktha - Keeper of the Seeds." Show notes: EPISODE SUMMARY NARRATOR: On this episode of The Aunties Dandelion – an interview with Kahehtoktha Janice Brant - a Kanyen'kehà:ka Mohawk farmer, Seed Keeper, and co-founder of the Kenté:ke Seed Sanctuary. Janice and her Tyendinega collaborators recently took over care of a seed collection held by nuns for decades at a nearby convent. It's been a journey of community engagement, discernment and the creation of a new and original wampum belt to honor the transfer of the seeds. KAHEHTOKTHA JANICE BRANT: When you open that husk – it is like you are looking at an infant. You are looking at a baby. You are looking at the future generations and to me that is extremely humbling and extremely powerful. They have been around for a long time and here they are still. NARRATOR: That power behhcomes a push back against our over culture -- and Kahehtoktha discusses the risks of caring for seeds with an intention sovereignty. KAHEHTOKTHA JANICE BRANT: We are not trying to create control over the seeds. In fact just quite the opposite. We are trying to make seeds available to people to make healthier, stronger seeds available to people. So you can see how that sort of – just given that flip of the paradigm can make it a dangerous game to play. And so we have to be careful and we get stopped at the border. You become sort of like a terrorist almost in the same – we are dangerous because we are in charge of freedom and you are free when you have your own food.

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with expert readers and author Diane Wilson about her novel The Seed Keeper for the Talk of Iowa book club.

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.   Join our community! Subscribe to the Mountain Rose Herbs newsletter Subscribe to Mountain Rose Herbs on YouTube Follow on Instagram Like on Facebook Follow on Pinterest Follow on Twitter Read the Mountain Rose Herbs blog Follow on TikTok Strengthening the bonds between people and plants for a healthier world. Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com

Historian Brenda J. Child stares at a buttery yellow sky framed by converging treelines reflected upon a lake. The scene is a painting by Duluth-based artist Jonathan Thunder and it's called “On the Grave of the Giant.” Below the sky's glow is a couple harvesting wild rice from a canoe. On the lake bottom are the skeletal remains of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.The painting is on public view for the first time as part of the new exhibition “Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers” at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. Child is a Northrop Professor of American Studies and former chair of the Departments of American Studies and the Department of American Indian Studies, co-curated the exhibition with gallery director Howard Oransky. It features paintings by 29 mid-century and contemporary Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Dakota and Lakota) artists from, or connected to, the region. It is the inaugural exhibition of the George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, an “interdepartmental study center to support the creation, presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art in all its forms.” Child is the founder of the new center, which was sparked by the success of the 2016 Nash gallery exhibition that she curated, “Singing Our History: People and Places of the Red Lake Nation.” The center is named in honor of the internationally renowned abstract expressionist, a member of the Grand Portage Ojibwe from Minnesota, who died in 2000. Morrison also taught art at the University of Minnesota in the 1970s and 1980s.“We tend to think in Minnesota, ‘Oh, George Morrison. He's like a local guy who's done well in the art world,'” Child says. “But he's a very important figure in American abstract expressionism.”Back in the gallery, Child is focused on that yellow sky. “What I really like about this work, and I wouldn't have known this unless Jonathan had told me,” Child begins. She pauses and walks to the opposite gallery wall, which features a string of paintings by the famous mid-century painter Patrick DesJarlait. Like Child and Thunder, DesJarlait was from the Red Lake Nation in northern Minnesota. DesJarlait is one of their heroes, she says.In addition to paintings like “Red Lake Fisherman” (also on view), DesJarlait is also famous for his 1950s redesign of the Land O'Lakes maiden, adding an Ojibwe floral pattern to her attire. “So Jonathan's nod to Patrick is the bright butter yellow that he used in this painting,” Child says. Over the phone from his Duluth studio, Thunder says Land O'Lakes discontinued DesJarlait's design, and the maiden, in 2020, soon before he began working on the painting in 2021.“With the yellow sky in that painting and the two points of land that come together, that's obviously a nod to the Land O'Lakes butter box,” Thunder says. “From what I understand, the two points of land that come together, they can be seen in Red Lake where the upper and lower Red Lake kind of join.”That year, Thunder had gone to see the Red Lake vista.“It was like seeing a cartoon come to life or something,” Thunder says. “It's very much a tribally significant image with or without the butter maiden.”Thunder says the painting was also inspired by the time when he and his wife decided to learn how to harvest wild rice around Walker, Minn. In the painting, a pipeline takes the shape of a tentacle reaching into the canoe above the watery grave of Bunyan and Babe.“At the time, the Line Three protests were happening across Minnesota and I was starting to see some of the division it was creating in the communities there,” Thunder explains. ”You see statues of Paul Bunyan kind of littered throughout the landscape, which is significant of a time when they were coming through clearing forests. Paul Bunyan was the noble face of that cause. In the wake of all that, it's nice to see that people can still go out and rice and practice those traditional ways.”Thunder says he's excited to be placed in the gallery next to DesJarlait, an artist “I've seen my whole life.” He adds that, when he was growing up in the Twin Cities, he used to play basketball at the Minneapolis American Indian Center. It was there he discovered the 94-foot-long wood mural “Turning the Feather Around” that Morrison created in 1974 (and which was recently restored and reinstalled).“That's a huge development for the campus,” Thunder says of the new center.“Dreaming Our Futures” is a web of these overt and covert dialogues and relationships between artworks, artists and generations.On view, of course, are the abstracted rainbow-colored canvases of Morrison himself, as well as the paintings of other blue chip artists such as Dyani White Hawk, Frank Big Bear, Jim Denomie, Oscar Howe and Andrea Carlson.“This exhibit shows the history of American Indian art, fine art, in the United States and where it's been in the last half-century, especially with Howe, Morrison and DesJarlait,” Child explains.“Dreaming Our Futures” acts as an important marker in time, too: Fifty years ago, Morrison, DesJarlait and Howe participated in an exhibition of contemporary Indian painting in Washington, D.C.Child says that “Dreaming Our Futures” also shows how contemporary artists “have been very influenced by those foundational figures.”These include artists like Thunder and Dakota artist Holly Young, of Bismarck, N.D. Young uses the mediums of beadwork, quillwork, and ledger art, an art form that originated in cave and hide painting that has evolved to also use parchment and actual historical “ledger” documents as a canvas. Young also created the illustration for the cover of “The Seed Keeper,” the 2021 novel by Minnesota Native writer Diane Wilson, the wife of Denomie. Denomie died in 2022. Wilson wrote an essay, “Jim Denomie at Home,” for the exhibition catalog.Four of Young's ledger-style watercolor paintings are on view, featuring Native women dressed in a combination of historical regalia and contemporary attire.“A lot of what I draw is kind of based off of real life,” Young says. “I enjoy the look of the old things, but I'm also living in today's world as a contemporary artist.”Young is self-taught. Many of her artist influences — White Hawk, Bobby Wilson, Francis J. Yellow, Thomasina TopBear — have work on display in the same room. The ledger art of Yellow, a Minneapolis-based Lakota artist who died in August, hangs right next to Young's.“He was also somebody that I looked up to as a ledger artist. His work was very emotional,” Young says. “I always wanted to meet him, and I've been in the Minnesota area over the years, but we never crossed paths.”Flanking the other side of her paintings is a large spray-painted canvas by TopBear. In 2022, Young and TopBear painted a mural together in Young's hometown of Fort Yates, S.D.“I really gravitate towards Thomasina's work,” Young says. “She does a lot of nature-inspired work: Flowers, the prairie and the plant helpers, as I call them, like insects and bugs, things that I really enjoy myself.”In another room, three paintings by St. Paul figurative painter and muralist Steven Premo, of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, hang facing three surrealist and spiritual paintings by fellow Ojibwe artist Joe Geshick, who died in 2009. Premo is the husband of Child, and was a good friend of Geshick, she says. Premo inherited Geshick's easel, which Child says will be on display with a list of artists who have died in recent years. Another Minnesota Native author, Louise Erdrich, will be speaking about Geshick's art at the gallery on Feb. 4.“Each of these individuals takes their place in a lineage of Indigenous painters that stretches back centuries,” Oransky, the gallery director and curator writes in his essay, “A Vast Field of Feathers,” for the exhibition catalog. He also points to the Jeffers Petroglyphs, the 7,000-year-old sacred rock carvings Native people made in southwestern Minnesota.“This exhibition of paintings, like all the exhibitions that came before it and will come after it, beautifully and forcefully demonstrates that the need for drawn and painted images is a universal need,” Oransky writes.At the end of a gallery tour, Child pauses again, pondering the timing of the exhibition. The pandemic set back its original opening date years.“We need to show American Indian art every year and all the time,” Child says. ”But thinking as I do, as a historian, I've been thinking about the anniversary of American Indian citizenship in the United States 100 years ago.”President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act on June 2, 1924. Morrison, Howe and DesJarlait were all born years before they were legal citizens of the U.S.They were working in a different era, Child says. “And that's why I particularly wanted to include these figures like Oscar Howe, Patrick Desjarlait and George Morrison in the exhibit.” There will be “Dreaming Our Futures: Art and American Indian Citizenship, 1924 – 2024” panel discussions Feb. 2 at the Regis Center for Art.“Dreaming Our Futures” runs through March 16. The opening reception is Feb. 3 at the Regis Center for Art. Speakers include Child, Erdrich, Wilson, Minnesota Museum of Art executive director Kate Beane and Harvard professor Christopher Pexa.On Feb. 15, Patricia Marroquin Norby, the inaugural associate curator of Native American art at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, will read her catalog essay “Painting Medicine: George Morrison's Big Water Magic.”On March 14, artist Fern Cloud will present “The Spirit of My People: Traditional Dakota Hide Painting.”

In place of our regular Hudson Mohawk Magazine programing, today we share this episode of The Aunties Dandelion podcast called "Auntie Kahehtoktha - Keeper of the Seeds." Show notes: EPISODE SUMMARY NARRATOR: On this episode of The Aunties Dandelion – an interview with Kahehtoktha Janice Brant - a Kanyen'kehà:ka Mohawk farmer, Seed Keeper, and co-founder of the Kenté:ke Seed Sanctuary. Janice and her Tyendinega collaborators recently took over care of a seed collection held by nuns for decades at a nearby convent. It's been a journey of community engagement, discernment and the creation of a new and original wampum belt to honor the transfer of the seeds. KAHEHTOKTHA JANICE BRANT: When you open that husk – it is like you are looking at an infant. You are looking at a baby. You are looking at the future generations and to me that is extremely humbling and extremely powerful. They have been around for a long time and here they are still. NARRATOR: That power behhcomes a push back against our over culture -- and Kahehtoktha discusses the risks of caring for seeds with an intention sovereignty. KAHEHTOKTHA JANICE BRANT: We are not trying to create control over the seeds. In fact just quite the opposite. We are trying to make seeds available to people to make healthier, stronger seeds available to people. So you can see how that sort of – just given that flip of the paradigm can make it a dangerous game to play. And so we have to be careful and we get stopped at the border. You become sort of like a terrorist almost in the same – we are dangerous because we are in charge of freedom and you are free when you have your own food.

This hour, chef Raquel Rivera, a cooking teacher and owner of A Pinch of Salt, and Jason Sobocinski, a local food entrepreneur, share tips for cooking a Thanksgiving turkey with all the fixins'. And intern Lateshia Peters talks with her mom Nicole Lewis about why their Thanksgiving meal is centered around the food of her Grenadian heritage. Think: Caribbean-spiced salmon, fry-bakes, and cocoa tea. Plus, producer Tagan Engel speaks with Hi'ilei Hobart, a professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale, and Rebecca Salazar, a student seed keeper with the Yale Native American Cultural Center and the Yale Sustainable Food Project. They spoke at the Yale farm about their adventure this year - growing and saving seeds of the special Haudenosaunee Buffalo Creek squash. These two indigenous women also speak to the importance they feel in connecting with indigenous and ancestral foods such as the three sisters: beans, corn and squash - to counter the challenges of colonization.  GUESTS: Raquel Rivera: Chef/owner of A Pinch of Salt Jason Sobocinski: Co-owner/partner of Caseus Provisions in Wallingford, Crispy Melty by Caseus, Olmo Bagels, Ordinary and Haven Hot Chicken in New Haven, Mystic Cheese Company in Groton and Black Hog Brewing Company in Oxford. Lateshia Peters and Nicole Lewis: Lateshia is a CT Public Intern and Nicole is her mom. Hi'ilei Hobart: Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies in the program of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Also author of Cooling the Tropics and editor of Food Ways Hawaii. Rebecca Salazar: Undergrad studying Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale. Rebecca is a Seed Keeper and Programs Liaison between the Native American Cultural Center - (NACC) and the Yale Sustainable Food Program (YSFP). This show was produced by Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Meg Dalton, Tagan Engel, Stephanie Stender, Katrice Claudio, Meg Fitzgerald, and Sabrina Herrera. Special thanks to the Yale Sustainable Food Program and to Fafa­­­­­­ Van Ha, Lazarus Fellow at the Yale Sustainable Food Program for contributing to the Buffalo Creek squash segment.  Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and email: seasoned@ctpublic.org. Seasoned is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.Support the show: https://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson was at the top of my summer reading list this year.Wilson won the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for this novel, which is her first fiction work. Her previous, non-fiction writings have also received numerous awards.

If you're interested in a well written novel about how the Dakota held sacred the land and seeds in particular, then you must read The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson.

This week we revisit a best-of Cultivating Place conversation focusing on seeding our imaginations—metaphorically and literally, with Diane Wilson writer, gardener, emeritus executive director of Dream of Wild Health and, more recently, emeritus executive director of The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Diane has long interwoven her gardening and her advocacy work with her writing, and her first novel, The Seed Keeper, was published by Milkweed press in 2021. Join us for more about Diane's journey of discovering, sharing, and celebrating seeds and Indigenous cultural recovery through the knowledge and history that seeds hold and the future they make possible. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

Rowen White (she/her) is a Seed Keeper and farmer 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 also the Founder of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network, which is committed to restoring the Indigenous Seed Commons.In this episode, Emily and Rowen discuss the intersection between food sovereignty and cultural revitalization, creating an intimate relationship with seeds and food, and using radical imagination to create a kincentric food system.You can learn more about Rowen on Instagram or Twitter, and visit the Sierra Seeds website and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance website for more information.You can find full transcripts, links, and other information on our website.

Welcome to Episode 165! We can't wait for you to listen to our Author Spotlight with DIANE WILSON! We were honored to talk with Diane about her moving, multi-generational debut novel, THE SEED KEEPER. Diane also talks about her writing process, her next book project, and more. In our Just Read segment, Emily talks about Elle Cosimano's FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS ‘EM DEAD, THE KEEPER by Kelcey Ervick (a future guest), and a weird short story by Roald Dahl called “Pig.” Chris finished THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson, a book of stunning breadth and depth. She both read the paperback edition and listened to the audiobook that was brilliantly narrated by Robin Miles. Both of us also read The Seed Keeper and had such a wonderful time talking with listeners on the Zoom call. Thank you to everyone who joined in on the readalong. In Biblio Adventures, Emily made it to POP! Art Books Culture in Boardman, Ohio. Chris has been binging the Outlander series on Netflix and started Lovecraft Country (HBO) which is based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. Emily got to see the documentary, Hello Bookstore, which was in town for one night only at the Madison Arts Cinema. And both Book Cougars enjoyed some library time at the E. C. Scranton Memorial Library also in Madison, CT. There's lots more book talk in this episode and we hope you enjoy it! If you do, please consider reviewing us on iTunes as it can help other book lovers find us. Thank you, and until next time we wish you lots of happy reading!

In this podcast episode, Rebecca sits down with Minnesota author, speaker and educator Diane Wilson. In the conversation, Diane talks about using writing to explore cultural identity, the power of telling Native American stories and her latest novel, “The Seed Keeper.” Diane also shares her interests in tribal food sovereignty and gardening, including how she practices Indigenous seed keeping to preserve heirloom seeds and plants. EPISODE RESOURCES Diane Wilson's website: https://www.dianewilsonwords.com/about “The Seed Keeper”: https://milkweed.org/book/the-seed-keeper Birchbark Books: https://birchbarkbooks.com/ Crystal Echo Hawk and the IllumiNative organization: https://illuminative.org/ All My Relations Native Authors Program: http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/news/native-authors-program/ Well-Read Native book club: https://wellreadnative.com/about Understand Native Minnesota: https://www.understandnativemn.org/

Book Tuber Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog joins us to talk about his reading of this year's Booker Prize nominees. He's read all thirteen books on the long list, talks about the novels on the shortlist, and shares some ideas about which book he thinks will win and why. For two women who claim to have been busy lately, we sure did manage to read a lot since our last episode! Emily even snuck in one more #BigBookSummer novel, THE DISPLACEMENTS by Bruce Holsinger, and two cooking-related books: BLACK, WHITE, AND THE GREY: THE STORY OF AN UNEXPECTED FRIENDSHIP AND A BELOVED RESTAURANT by John O. Morisano and Mashama Bailey, and MISS ELIZA'S ENGLISH KITCHEN: A NOVEL OF VICTORIAN COOKERY AND FRIENDSHIP by Annabel Abbs (audio narrated by Ell Potter and Bianca Amato). She also read a novel that's first coming out in January 2023 — she couldn't wait! — SMALL WORLD by Laura Zigman. Chris whipped through the next entry in the Alex Carter series, A GHOST OF CARIBOU by Alice Henderson which comes out November 6th. Then she decided to dig back into the early 20th century and read the first English translation of one of the first lesbian novels, ARE THEY WOMEN?: A NOVEL CONCERNING THE THIRD SEX (1901) by Aimée Duc, translated from German by Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam, and also MISS NOBODY FROM NOWHERE (1927) by Elizabeth Jordan. We're excited to talk with listeners who are reading our fourth quarter readalong, THE SEED KEEPER by Diane Wilson. Join us for a zoom discussion on 9/18 at 7 pm ET (email us at bookcougars@gmail.com) or over on our Goodreads page.

This episode is looking to the future with interviews with Diane Wilson about her book “The Seed Keeper,” and Brian Anderson, the leader of the Biden Administration effort to make sure coal communities are not left behind in the transition to cleaner energy. Thanks to Everywhere Radio from the Rural Assembly and AppalachAmerica for sharing these interviews. Diane Wilson (Dakota) sat down with Rural Assembly Program Associate Tyler Owens during Rural Women Everywhere to talk about Wilson's most recent book "The Seed Keeper," which follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. During this conversation Wilson and Owens explore where Wilson finds her inspiration, the importance of continuing a tradition of storytelling, and the importance of connection to the earth. Diane Wilson is a writer, speaker, and editor, who has published two award-winning books, as well as essays in numerous publications. Next AppalachAmerica host Jeff Young asks what Appalachia without coal might become and talks with two individuals who are leading efforts to support a transition to cleaner energy that also rebuilds the region's green economy. These interviews took place in the spring of 2021 not long after the Biden Administration took office. Brian Anderson comes from a family that has a generations-long connection to West Virginia coal and fossil fuel development. Jeff Young talks with Anderson about the multi-agency federal working group he's leading to support a sustainable transition to clean energy, and about his role as director of the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory. Also, what might a Green New Deal look like in Appalachia? Jeff talks with design professor Billy Fleming about a project to give form to Appalachian people's ideas about a more sustainable future.

In this episode, we hear from former Truelove Seeds apprentice and current Truelove Seeds seed producer and collaborator Chris Keeve in an interview from last fall 2021 when they visited during our annual growers gathering at our farm outside of Philadelphia, PA. There is also a short clip from the summer of 2019 while a group of us harvested peas and Chris narrates, and a short update from this month so we can hear the awesome things Chris is up to this summer. Chris Keeve is a seedkeeper, chaotic gardener, and PhD student in Geography at the University of Kentucky. Their work focuses on the political ecologies and cooperative geographies of participatory seed work, especially through lenses of Black, queer, and liberatory ecologies. They've been known to write things here and there about seeds, politics, ecology, histories, futures, and materiality. Their apprenticeship with Truelove has led into their work with projects like the TradeRoots Culinary Collective in Wisconsin, as well as their current work in central Kentucky as a seed grower for Truelove, as well as for Ujamaa Seeds and Experimental Farm Network. This season they are most excited about the Paul Robeson tomato, with an upcoming growout of blue collards a close second. You can find them at c.keeve on Instagram, christiankeeve on Twitter, email keeve@uky.edu, or through their department page.   SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE: Spilanthes (Bullseye) Spilanthes (Lemon Drop) Hill Country Red Okra White Velvet Okra Green Glaze Collards Tulsi (Kapoor) Tulsi (Vana) MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE: Interviewee: Chris Keeve Chris on Instagram: @c.keeve Chris on Twitter: christiankeeve Chris on email: keeve@uky.edu Chris's department page Resources and organizations mentioned: Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures, by Frederick Douglass Opie Heirloom Collards Project TradeRoots Culinary Collective Lobelia Commons Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Experimental Farm Network Ujamaa Seeds ABOUT: Seeds And Their People is a radio show where we feature seed stories told by the people who truly love them. Hosted by Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds and Chris Bolden-Newsome of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden. trueloveseeds.com/blogs/satpradio   SUPPORT OUR PATREON! Become a monthly Patreon supporter! This will better allow us to take the time to record, edit, and share seed stories like these.   FIND OWEN HERE: Truelove Seeds Facebook  |  Tumblr  |  Instagram  |  Twitter   FIND CHRIS HERE: Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden   THANKS TO: Chris Keeve Althea Baird Amirah Mitchell Maebh Aguilar Sara Taylor

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Rowen White originally aired in July of 2020. Across Turtle Island, seeds have long been passed down through the generations — accompanied by ceremony and prayer, reverent seed cultures, and sustainable food growing practices. Through eras of colonization and acculturation, however, we've seen the consolidation of seeds into a handful of corporations and the production of a soulless industrial food landscape. This system is failing us and, as centralized infrastructure strains and buckles, we turn to the embrace of our community and the nurturance of seeds at the local and village level. This episode is all about renewal and reanimation, as our guest Rowen White shares her thoughts on Indigenous food sovereignty, seed restoration as rematriation, and what it means to bring seed relatives home. Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds. Music by Madelyn Ilana. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points.  

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Allison Waukau's Gift for Raising Native Representation in Libraries On today's show, we talk with Allison Waukau (Menominee/Navajo) a community builder who works in library programs, raising Native representation on the shelves and behind the scenes, making libraries more welcoming to Native community members. Allison Waukau started as a liaison at the Hennepin County Library, where her role quickly expanded into creating a Native Employee Resource Group for library and county employees, aimed at recruiting, supporting, and retaining Native colleagues. Allison is a member-at-large with the American Indian Library Association and one of Library Journal's 2021 Movers & Shakers. We enjoyed talking with Allison about her many professional interests, including exploring library land acknowledgment practices, developing community-led library programs, and elevating the voices and perspectives of the Native community near and far.Allison's book recommendations can all be found at https://birchbarkbooks.com/Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend by Dawn QuigleyVoices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers by Teresa Peterson & Walter Labatte Jr.The Seed Keeper by Diane WilsonMoon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig RiceAllison also wants to note a new Minnesota publishing company focusing on Dakota/Lakota authors and voices, launched by Spirit Lake Dakota artist Marlena Myles: http://wiyounkihipi.com/Hennepin County Library events page: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/eventsThe Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library: https://thefriends.org/calendar-of-events/Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: home library wins and reading your shelves Current Reads: mystery and fantasy and parenting and romance and family drama, we're running the reading gauntlet Deep Dive: setting goals for 2022 in our personal, podcast, and Patreon spaces Book Presses: a backlist gem and a retelling of a classic As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 0:30 - Currently Reading Patreon 2:00 - Bookish Moment of the Week 4:15 - Thriftbooks 6:33 - Current Reads 7:00 - Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner (Meredith) 12:34 - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (Kaytee) 13:29 - Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM 14:24 - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (Meredith) 17:28 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 19:08 - Social Justice Parenting by Dr. Traci Baxley (Kaytee) 22:03 - Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain 22:04 - Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi 22:35 - A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith) 26:22 - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Kaytee) 27:03 - Breath by James Nestor  30:01 - Deep Dive: Our Reading Goals for 2022 35:23 - Currently Reading Patreon 40:30 - Tag potential guests on our Instagram Currently Reading 43:15 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands 43:35 - Fabled Bookshop 43:56 - The Ghost Writer by John Harwood (Meredith) 45:08 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield  45:41 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 46:53 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Kaytee) 47:05 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

To welcome the new year, Cultivating Place stays with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane Wilson writer, gardener, emeritus executive director of Dream of Wild Health and, more recently, emeritus executive director of The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Diane has long interwoven her gardening and her advocacy work with her writing, and her first novel, The Seed Keeper, was published by Milkweed press in 2021. Join us for more about Diane's journey of discovering, sharing, and celebrating seeds and Indigenous cultural recovery through the knowledge and history that seeds hold, and the future they make possible. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

Jenny asked previous podcast guests to chat about their top reads of the year, whether or not they were published in 2021. Jenny also chimes in with her own obscure categories. Please enjoy hearing from Tina, Tom, Lindy, Trish, Andrew, Kim, Jeff, Elizabeth, Audrey, Scott, Robin, Mina, Emily, Chris, Nadine, and Ross. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 236: Best Reads of 2021 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:(duplicates removed) Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram x. Kendo and Keisha N. BlaineBroken Horses written and read by Brandi CarlileSeveral People are Typing by Calvin KasulkeWhen the Light of the World was Subdued edited by Joy HarjoBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Murderbot Diaries series by Martha WellsXeni by Rebekah WeatherspoonAct Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia HibbertThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodAmerican Dreamer by Adriana Herrera, narrated by Sean ChristenFight Night by Miriam ToewsNervous Conditions trilogy by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw, read by Janina EdwardsExhalation: Stories by Ted ChiangSeasonal Quartet by Ali SmithHow to Be Both by Ali SmithMaddAddam trilogy by Margaret AtwoodBarkskins by Annie ProulxSigns for Lost Children by Sarah Moss Tidal Zone by Sarah MossLadivine by Marie Ndiaye To Cook a Bear by Mikael NiemiKindred by Octavia ButlerThe Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabMexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-GarciaSummer Sons by Lee Mandelo 
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy BinnsChasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David GrinspoonDune by Frank HerbertOne Long River of Song by Bryan DoyleInk Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa RaymondRazorblade Tears by S.A. CosbyBlacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Sparrow Envy by J. Drew LanhamHome is not a Country by Safia ElhilloMoon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig RiceCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseWretchedness by Andrzej TichyThe Twilight Zone by Nona FernandezPeach Blossom Paradise by Ge FeiThe Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree JeffersSummer Brother by Jaap Robben; translateld by David DohertyNjal's Saga by AnonymousBrood by Jackie PollenNobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir by Lizi LevineNancy by Bruno Lloret; translated by Ellen JonesShadow King by Maaza MengisteShuggie Bain by Douglas StuartThe Overstory by Richard PowersCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrCity of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Actual Star by Monica ByrneBewilderment by Richard PowersThe Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky ChambersA Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers  O Beautiful by Jung YunWhile Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, narrated by Adenrele OjoShelter by Jung YunMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellLove and Saffron
 by Kim FayShadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo MartinezThe Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi VoThe Seed Keeper by Diane WilsonOpen Water by Caleb Azumah NelsonGreat Circle by Maggie ShipsteadTelephone by Percival EverettWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian West; read by Adam Barr To Calais in Ordinary Time by James MeekThe Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William DalrympleA Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated by Christina E. KramerMud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer, translated by Antonio Lloyd-JonesSovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Flatland, translated by Kari DicksonRelated episodes: Episode 046 - Books for Your Kitty Party (The Best of 2015) with Libby Young and many other guestsEpisode 075 - After the Year We've Had (Best of 2016)Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017 Episode 139 - Stocking Stuffer (Best Reads of 2018) Episode 176 - Best of 2019Episode 209 - Best Reads of 2020Episode 210 - Reading Goals 2021Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

This episode bridges the wisdom of a Seed Keeper & Farmer and an Activist Physician & Healer to discuss weaving the legacy of art & medicine. The Seed Keeper, Rowen White, is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds. The Physician, Geeta-Maker Clark, is physician board certified in both family medicine and Integrative Medicine. What does it mean to have a values-based food system? How do we bridge the different roles people take on in different industries and communities? Learn how cultural and ancestral memories inform our work and how shedding light on missing narratives in food creates a path toward a resilient & equitable local food system. More about this episode: Rowen White @rowenwhite https://www.patreon.com/rowenwhite Geeta Maker-Clark @foodplantsdancedoc https://www.castaneafellowship.org/castanea-fellows/fellows-2019/geeta-maker-clark/ A Castanea Fellowship Podcast @castaneafellowship / castaneafellowship.org/rooted-wisdom/ Conversation Guide: Aileen Suzara @aileensuzara @sariwakitchen Voice Talent: Mark Winston Griffith @mwgriffith @bkmovement Produced by: EmpathyHaus empathyhaus.com Support this podcast

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Mary and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: holiday reading and a Bookish dentist visit Current Reads: some books that we both read that we can discuss together Deep Dive: how to move those books from TBR to read - reading your shelves! Book Presses: a delightful classic and a middle grade gem As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . Season 4, Episode 18: 1:18 Bookish Moment of the Week 2:51 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand 3:00 - Christmas with Anne of Green and Other Holiday Stories by L.M. Montgomery  4:52 - The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Delila Harris 4:57 - Season 4: Episode 1 of Currently Reading 5:33 Current Reads: 5:43 - Amy Allen Clark - MomAdvice and Book Gang podcast 5:56 - The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg (Mary) 8:48 - This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay (Kaytee) 12:20 - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Mary)  14:47 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 16:49 - The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Kaytee) 19:18 - The Brightest Star in Paris by Diana Biller (Mary) 19:27 - The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller 21:47 - The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr (Kaytee) 23:59 - Deep Dive: Reading Your Shelves 27:00 - Thriftbooks 27:01 - Savers 29:13 - Half Price Books 30:42 - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson 32:14 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 37:01 - Scribd 37:03 - Libro.fm 40:16 - Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 40:36 - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (Mary) 42:28 - Season 1: Episode 1 of Currently Reading 42:46 - Sweep by Jonathan Auxier (Kaytee) Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast

Thanksgiving is a time for food, family and friends. It's designed for gathering and articulating our gratitude for each other and the fruits of the earth. Particularly in these trying times, practicing gratitude can help lift your spirits in the moment and create a positive outlook for a lifetime.  Guest host Chris Farrell spoke with three experts on wellness about the role gratitude plays in our overall health and the health of our relationships with other people and the planet. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. Guests:  Annie Pezalla is a professor of psychology at Macalester College in St. Paul. She teaches about Positive Psychology and the practice of gratitude. Diane Wilson is the author of the novel “The Seed Keeper” and several memoirs. She's a Dakota writer living in Shafer, Minn. Mary Jo Kreitzer is the director of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota and a professor at the School of Nursing.  Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.

On this episode, we're sharing a conversation with author Diane Wilson (Dakota). Wilson sat down with Rural Assembly Program Associate Tyler Owens during Rural Women Everywhere to talk about Wilson's most recent book "The Seed Keeper," which follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. During this conversation Owens and Wilson explore where Wilson finds her inspiration, the importance of continuing a tradition of storytelling, and the importance of connection to the earth. Diane Wilson is a writer, speaker, and editor, who has published two award-winning books, as well as essays in numerous publications. Her new novel, The Seed Keeper, was published by Milkweed Editions in March. Find the transcript and a full video of this interview at ruralassembly.org/podcasts/everywhere-radio-diane-wilson.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill sets aside $1.2 trillion dollars in funding for clean water, bridges, and roads, as well as higher-tech infrastructure like EV charging stations and electric school buses. Why the implementation of these projects needs to focus on creating equitable and sustainable systems that will last for generations. Also, the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland brought mixed results with an agreement to phase down coal, side agreements to cut methane emissions and a rulebook for international carbon trading markets. But there was little progress in efforts to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and the talks were widely criticized for their lack of inclusivity. Most importantly, COP26 failed to establish a fully credible path to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. And for many Native American communities, seeds are living and life-giving organisms which should be carefully kept and cherished. The 2021 novel “The Seed Keeper” relays the importance of seed keeping across 4 generations of Dakota women. Join the next Living on Earth Book Club event on December 9th at 6:30 p.m.! We'll be speaking with diver-filmmaker Craig Foster about his book Underwater Wild, which captures the underwater world of wonder seen in the Academy Award-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” Register at loe.org/events Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mentioned in this week's podcast: 'Design To Live' details refugees' ingenuity in creating life in camps, November 13, 20218:49 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday; Editors Azra Aksamija & Raafat Majzoub Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp; Tracey Baptiste's The Jumbies; Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper; Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D. ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood Through Adulthood --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/valerie-dilorenzo/message

Shauna, Rebecca, and Tara share the books they've read to date for their Read Native 21 Challenge. Shauna: Read Native 21 Challenge Sheet-Complete List Tara: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good; The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones; My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones; I place you into the fire by poet Rebecca Thomas. Rebecca:  I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day; Taaqtumi: an Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories; Indians on Vacation by Thomas King; Murder on the Red Cliff Rez by Mardi Oakley; The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson; Trickster: Native American Tales; Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger; Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden. Voice-over by Content Creator and Comedian Cameron Geller --TikTok & Instagram: @cameron.geller  Music from Zapsplat.com

Jen and Jennifer talk about six great new titles from indigenous authors. Titles discussed: "An American Sunrise" by Joy Harjo, "Winter Counts" by David Heska Wanbli Weiden, "Firekeeper's Daughter" by Angeline Boulley, "The Case of the Missing Auntie" by Michael Hutchinson, "The Seed Keeper" by Diane Wilson, and "A History of Kindness" by Linda Hogan.

As part of a new Emergence series, we're publishing a selection of essays from Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations—a five-volume collection edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer. Diane Wilson is a writer, speaker, editor, and the Executive Director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. She is the author of The Seed Keeper; Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past; and Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life. In this essay, Diane asks what it means to be a good relative to the land as she endeavors to restore balance between the native and invasive plants around her home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Melissa Nelson talks with Jessika Greendeer of the Ho-Chunk Nation in this first of three episodes focused on Seed Rematriation. Jessika and Melissa discuss this important growing movement, seed keeping and agriculture, and her work as Seed Keeper and Farm Manager at Dream of Wild Health. This episode is a co-production of The Cultural Conservancy and Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance's (NAFSA) Indigenous Seed Keepers Network, part of a collection of Seed Rematriation media that we have co-produced with NAFSA.

Guest reviewer Shirley Sneve introduces "The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson, a novel told through the voices of 4 generations of native women of the Northern Great Plains. It tells of the preservation of family and culture through hardships, aided by the safekeeping of traditional seeds.

Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX-nWBQWKL3lnx52f3AuCwBOOKS MENTIONED: “The Hand on the Wall” by Maureen Johnsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45240918-the-hand-on-the-wall “The Box in the Woods” by Maureen Johnsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52716736-the-box-in-the-woods “The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52639051-the-seed-keeper?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uoet9fvwwj&rank=1 “Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology” by Jess Zimmermanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54228607-women-and-other-monsters?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=SX3Rr0y6yi&rank=1 “Behold the Dreamers” by Imbolo Mbuehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35259724-behold-the-dreamers?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=kEC5QWpgmm&rank=1 “The 22 Murders of Madison May” by Max Barryhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55859459-the-22-murders-of-madison-may?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=xwBKwqc7es&rank=1 FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM AND GOODREADS @ILIKETOREADPOD TWITTER: @rpolansky77FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/iliketoreadpodMEDIA MAVEN BLOG: https://rpolansky77.wixsite.com/website

Lindy joins me to talk books, where we discuss Canadian lit, vignettes and white space in writing, and what really makes a monster.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 226: Cucumber Sandwiches Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:  You're Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-KingEveryone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka GalchenThe Centaur's Wife by Amanda LeducThe Seed Keeper by Diane WilsonWhat Willow Says by Lynn BuckleOther mentions:Shadow Giller PrizeHow to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham ThammavongsaGiller PrizeKuessipan by Naomi FontaineTournament of BooksA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiJeanette WintersonAtmospheric Disappearances by Rivka GalchenThe Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey DragerDisfigured by Amanda LeducLitFest AlbertaThe Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester and Kevin SylvesterBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer2019 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal report about Indigenous childrenWhen the Light of the World was Subdued.... edited by Joy HarjoThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonBeneath the Rising by Premee MohamedAnd Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyn SaucierCome Together, Fall Apart by Cristina HenriquezRelated episodes: Episode 095 - Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch Episode 124 - Mush Creatures with Lindy PratchEpisode 159 - Reading Doorways with LindyEpisode 196 - Miscommunication with Lindy Episode 221 - Joint Poetry Readalong with Book CougarsEpisode 223 - Cicada Season with Rachel Mans McKennyStalk me online:Lindy Reads and Reviews (blog)Lindy on Twitter Lindy is @Lindy on LitsyJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Follow ShadowGiller on Twitter All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

An exploration of questions that includes short passages from Saadia Faruqi's A Thousand Questions, Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper, and Jess Redman's The Adventure is Now. rightquestion.org and Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana's Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions are also mentioned in this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/valerie-dilorenzo/message

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast, you'll meet Jessika Greendeer. Jessika is a Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member from Baraboo, WI and a member of the Deer Clan. She is currently the Seed Keeper and Farm Manager at Dream of Wild Health. Prior to her time DWH. Jessika has worked as the Agricultural Division Manager for her nation and has previously served as a garden mentor within her Nation's organic community gardens. She is a U.S. Army Combat Veteran and completed a Veteran-to-Farmer training program at the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania For full show notes including links in today's show, head on over to WildRoseFarmer.comhttps://wildrosefarmer.com/109 Get Patron-Only Extended Content & Bonus Episodes | Listen Here Support my work on Patreon | Learn More Patreon Executive Producer | Sarah R. | Happiness by The Acre Editing | Max Hofer | https://www.facebook.com/mixbaerstudio/ (MixBär Studio) Shop our Show Sponsors | Here Before You Buy The Mic | Podcast Coaching | Learn More Positively Farming Media | a hub for creators in the food & agriculture space | Learn More

So the story moves around between the different perspectives of these women, and it doesn't follow a straight chronological timeline. It's more arranged thematically. So but to go furthest back in time would be Marie Blackbird, who who was 14 years old at eighteen sixty two. And she and her mother are the ones who actually sow the seeds into the hands of their skirts. So they bring that story alive. So they represent that traditional relationship with seeds and the land and gardening. - Diane Wilson

So the story moves around between the different perspectives of these women, and it doesn't follow a straight chronological timeline. It's more arranged thematically. So but to go furthest back in time would be Marie Blackbird, who who was 14 years old at eighteen sixty two. And she and her mother are the ones who actually sow the seeds into the hands of their skirts. So they bring that story alive. So they represent that traditional relationship with seeds and the land and gardening. - Diane Wilson

Amanda and Jenn discuss non-boring literary fiction, books set in Jamaica, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Feedback Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (rec’d by Ericka) Questions 1. Hi Jenn and Amanda,  I set a challenge last year to read a book set in each state. I’ve read 23/52 (Don’t worry, I know there are 50 states, I’m counting DC and Puerto Rico). I wanted to wait to submit a question until I was closer to finishing, but I’ve hit a slump on this challenge. Could you recommend books with a strong sense of place set in any of the states I’ve listed? I’m open to most genres, but my favorites are: historical fiction, literary fiction, travel/food writing, and SFF (which is hard for this challenge). I love stories that focus on intergenerational families, coming of age, subcultures, and female protagonists. My favorites so far have been Molokai for Hawaii and The Seed Keeper for Minnesota (thanks for posting that on your IG, Jenn!!!). Please no graphic novels, middle grade, or horror.  Here’s my shelf for the challenge (you’ll see that you’ve already had a strong influence!) and here’s my overall Goodreads:  Alabama Arkansas Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Mississippi Missouri   Montana Nebraska Nevada Rhode Island South Dakota Tennessee  Wyoming  Thanks for keeping my TBR full and my library card active! I love the show and all the ways you’ve impacted my reading!  -Stephanie 2. Hi! I’ve recently realized a certain type of series I enjoy and am hoping for more suggestions. Two series I loved are the Sevenwaters series by Juliet Marillier and the Samaria series by Sharon Shinn – fantasy romance where each book tells its own complete story and the successive books in the series stay in the same world but with a new cast of characters of the next generation. It’s the opposite of ending a book on a cliffhanger (WHICH I HATE) so it really works for me. Also want the series to be complete so I can binge read the whole thing at once. No YA please. Thank you!! Other series I’ve read: All of Octavia Butler (mostly loved, especially Earthseed) Robin Hobb (too long omg but sign me for abridged version if that’s ever an option) The Broken Earth series (doesn’t quite have the generational thing I want, but really liked the writing) -Lindsey (She/her) 3. Hello.

Today, a nourishing discussion with Diane Wilson (Dakota), the award-winning writer who is also a speaker, editor, and is the executive director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. We’re excited to speak with Diane Wilson about her new novel called The Seed Keeper, which is published by Milkweed Editions and came out in early March of 2021.

Marie: This is Minnesota Native News, I'm Marie Rock. Coming up...Diane Wilson's new book The Seedkeeper has now been released…And The Minnesota Native American Lives Series is celebrating its launch as well.Here's Leah Lemm with the stories….STORY #1: BOOKS BOOKS BOOKSReporter: Diane Wilson describes herself as a writer and a gardener. She's a celebrated author and the Executive Director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance.Diane Wilson: I am a descendant of the Mdewakanton Oyate and enrolled on the Rosebud reservation. Reporter: Diane Wilson brings together her love of writing and love of nurturing plant relatives in her new book, The Seed Keeper. Cole Premo and I talked with her about The Seed Keeper on the program Native Lights. Here's a portion of that conversation.Leah: Diane, can you tell us, can you tell us about the new book?Diane Wilson: The book is a novel my first novel, I should say. It tells the story of several generations of a Dakota family in the voices of four different women and then the seeds themselves. And it's a story that follows, um, the seed, the seeds that were precious to this family from dating from 1863, all the way to present well, actually to the early two thousands. And it's a, um, it's a story of how we have shifted in our relationship to these seeds, um, and, and the sacrifices that these women have made all along the way to protect them and to ensure that we have the seeds for future generations. Cole: That's great. You spoke on what inspired you to write this, but how did you form the narrative? What made you present it in the way you did? Diane Wilson: I started in the middle and then, um, you know, the, so I wrote a story in from about what is now about the middle, about Rosalie. And she was always the main character. then I kept adding characters who could bring out, um, earlier generations, for example, so that you can see the, the impact of, um, some of the assimilation programs like boarding schools actually had an impact on our connection to foods and, and really how you can tell this history of what's happened to Dakota people through what's happened to our foods. So it's a way of showing food kind of as a vehicle for story itself. Reporter: The Seed Keeper is published by Milkweed Editions - find out more about the book at MILKWEED DOT ORG.Diane Wilson was also the author of a book in the recent Minnesota Native American Lives Series. The Minnesota Native American Lives Series is a partnership between The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) and the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC) highlighting the history and experiences of individual Dakota and Ojibwe people.Diane Wilson authored the book on Ella Cara Deloria. Two more books were also released in the series. Author Kade Farris wrote one of the books as well. Kade Ferris: (00:05) I'm from the turtle mountain community in, uh, North Dakota. I'm an enrolled citizen of the Manitoba meaty Federation in Canada. Reporter: Kade Ferris wrote about National Hall of Fame Pitcher Charles Albert Bender. Bender was Ojibwe and grew up farming the land on White Earth, throwing rocks out of the earth so it could be farmed. Then Bender went to boarding school where his athletic abilities shined.There's a lot to the story that appeals to those interested in learning more… and baseball fans alike. As a pitcher, he won games, also…. Charles Albert Bender invented the slider. There's a good deal for younger readers to learn, facing challenges and overcoming. Including standing up to racism, which Charles Albert Bender experienced.Kade Ferris: I think that is something too... a good lesson for a young readers is that you have to stand up for yourself. You have to demand respect. Check out MN Humanities Center - MN HUM DOT ORG or their facebook page for more information about the series and the virtual book launch on March 25th. For MN Native News, I'm Leah Lemm.

Guests, Author of The Seed Keeper, Diane Wilson and Dr. Antony Stately will join Robert Pilot, Wendy, and Ogimaa on today’s show.

Across Turtle Island, seeds have long been passed down through the generations — accompanied by ceremony and prayer, reverent seed cultures, and sustainable food growing practices. Through eras of colonization and acculturation, however, we’ve seen the consolidation of seeds into a handful of corporations and the production of a soulless industrial food landscape. This system is failing us and, as centralized infrastructure strains and buckles, we turn to the embrace of our community and the nurturance of seeds at the local and village level. This episode is all about renewal and reanimation, as our guest Rowen White shares her thoughts on Indigenous food sovereignty, seed restoration as rematriation, and what it means to bring seed relatives home. Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds. Music by Madelyn Ilana. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points.

Marie: This is Minnesota Native News, I'm Marie Rock.  Headlines: Twin cities based non-profit, Dream of Wild health, is expanding its farm operation to help meet community needs.but first…STORY #1 - MMIWMarie: The state of Minnesota's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force is continuing its work to create recommendations for the state in its response to the MMIW crisis.Due to the pandemic, no in-person meetings are scheduled for community input, but people can share their stories on-line, over email or on the phone.Mary Kunesh-Podein: (00:42) If you or someone you know would like to share their personal story of a missing or murdered loved one, we have extended the listening period to May 18th, 2020Marie: State Representative Mary Kunesh-Podein announced the May 18th end date and encourages the stories be submitted to help guide the work of the task force. Mary Kunesh-Podein stresses that stories will kept private upon request.Mary Kunesh-Podein: (01:26) please know that your information will be held sacred and private.Marie: The phone number to submit a testimonial is (651) 280-2661. Email submission is also available at MMIWtaskforce@wilder.org. MMIC TASKFORCE AT WILDER DOT O-R-GAnd, comments can be submitted on the office of justice programs page on the department of safety website D-P-S DOT M-N DOT G-O-VTransition MusicMarie: Next, Dream of Wild Health is adding 20 acres to its existing 10.Here's reporter Leah Lemm with the story…STORY #2 - Dream of Wild Health Expands FARM ACREAGEReporter: Dream of Wild Health has been providing food to the community through the Indigenous Food Share, Farmers Markets, and Youth Programs, community gatherings and more. Neely Snyder is the Executive Director for Dream of Wild Health.Neely Snyder: (00:15) we just seen over and over again the, um, the clear need for us to grow, um, to add additional acreage.Reporter: The additional acreage didn't look like a reality until the beginning of this year. And the pandemic has added additional hurdles, but food creation is essential. Neely Snyder: (00:34) at that time, um, COVID wasn't really a thing, but we still had this longterm vision of, you know, eventually growing out that acreage and, um, providing more for our community - just being that provider, but then COVID hit. And, now it's just more apparent that we have to be ready to provide more food. Reporter: Dream of Wild Health is also providing education and is teaching the food producers of tomorrow, and Neely hopes to grow in that capacity as well, where they can.Neely Snyder: (04:53) I think it's really going to be a teaching tool for our youth and our community, I'm not sure if we'll be able to expand our youth programs because it's such a closely knit small group of youth that we get to work with. However, when we can bring families out there or have, um, some workshops and things like that, that would be a great opportunity.Reporter: The land that Dream of Wild Health is obtaining is just a short tractor ride away from the original 10 acre farm. The new land was previously farmed for corn, and it'll now be converted into a more bio-diverse community of plants, trees, birds and insects. Jessika Greendeer is Dream of Wild Health's Seed Keeper & Farm Manager.Jessika Greendeer: (01:28) we've been doing some invasive tree removal at this point, But essentially we're looking at adding different fruit and nut trees in the alleyways. Um, and then not only is it providing a windbreak for our crops that we're growing, but it's also providing habitat for insects and birds. Jessika Greendeer: (03:19) we're looking at, um, adding a lot of cover cropping and soil amendments to the property. Um, a lot of the trees that are coming down are actually gonna get wood chipped. Um, and then we'll actually reincorporate it back into the soil so that way we've got, um, what they call micro remediation. So essentially adding some more organic matter into the soil to start building it back up again. Reporter: The process will take years, but it's already tillable land, it'll be a bit easier than starting from untouched land. Jessika Greendeer: (04:03) I'm grateful that we're able to start healing the earth in this particular spot and hopefully it'll help our, our neighbors want to expand that, um, expand that vision for the rest of the community. Reporter: For Minnesota Native News, I'm Leah Lemm.

Rowen White is a Seed Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and an activist for seed sovereignty. In this in-depth interview, Rowen shares what seeds—her greatest teachers—have shown her: that resilience is rooted in diversity, and that all of us carry encoded memories of how to plant and care for seeds.

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As we head into the month of September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one of the best seed seasons in our gardens and in our wildlands. Ecosystems everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere are reminded by the light of the need to set seed before growing season’s end. I thought this was a perfect moment to return to one of the episodes from our series last year entitled Seeds of September. Today Cultivating Place revisits our conversation with SeedKeeper, Indigenous woman, mother, writer and Seed Rematriator, Rowen White. Rowen is the founder of Sierra Seeds, the chair of Seed Savers Exchange, and an active member of the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network. Sierra Seeds is a small, regional seed and seed stewardship cooperative based in Nevada County, California. Listen in for more! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

Owen Taylor is a long time community gardener, seed saver and food justice activist whose passion for seed keeping led him to found Truelove Seed Company in 2017.

On this #plantchat episode, the seed sowing frenzy is in full swing this time of year and we caught up with Carol Niec and Kerrie Rosenthal of the Seed Keeper Company to get some insights for proper seed selection, storage and selection. Both Carol and Kerrie are seasoned gardeners who are passionate about seeds and evangelizing the many benefits of planting them. They discuss the importance of understanding the best time to plant seeds based on your hardiness zone, to knowing how much lighting you get in your yard, soil conditions, types of seeds, to explaining seed lingo and reading seed packets, there is a lot to consider when buying your seeds for the growing season. Knowing your hardiness zones and frost dates is key in maximizing your growing season. We also share a bit about their annual Seed Keeper Project that recognizes school gardens in every state in the US. It's a great program that gives visibility to importance of educating kids about where food comes from and teaching them lifelong gardening skills. The program begins accepting nominations for school gardens in all 50 state, plus DC through their Facebook page. They, along with the program sponsors, awards one school in each state with a Seed Keeper Deluxe, seeds, snips and other great items. Connect with Carol and Kerrie on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And Connect with Chris at Corona Tools on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

This week on Cultivating Place, the third installment in the Seeds of September four part series– we’re joined by Rowen White, founder of Sierra Seeds a seed and seed advocacy cooperative in Nevada County, Calif. Rowen, a Mohawk woman who serves on the Indigenous Seed Keeper’s Network and is current chair of Seed Savers Exchange, shares with us her love, purpose and poetry of seed stewardship. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher.

Greg Schoen is a Seed Keeper, someone who honors and cares for the ancient plants that nourished and healed Humanity for centuries. Seeds from our past hold deep within their structure the history of Humanity. Seeds from the past hold the mystery of medicines, nourishment and replenishing of our Natural world. And Seeds need protection from chemical interventions that change or shut off their gifts. My guest has devoted his Life to just that purpose.

Gail Taylor, is the owner/operator of Three Part Harmony Farm. A long-time resident of the District, Taylor has worked as an organizer and social justice activist focusing on Latin America solidarity (internationally) and affordable housing issues (locally.) She has been farming organically since 2005. Taylor speaks regularly on food and farming issues and has been featured in The Washington Post in 2014 and 2015 for her role as a leader in the urban ag movement. In 2015, she was featured as one of Fifty+ under 50: Innovative leaders transforming metro DC’s food system. She is a member of the Seed Keeper’s Collective, Ecohermanas, and co-founder of Community Farming Alliance. Three Part Harmony Farm exists to grow food for people, but it also exists in part to challenge our assumptions on how urban farms should look. It intentionally seeks to create a viable and just local food economy while at the same time dismantling racism and the ever present, entrenched forms of oppression in that same food system. Three Part Harmony Farm has an active work exchange program where people can work in exchange for fresh produce from the farm. The farm donates produce to soup kitchens and food pantries that redistribute food to people in need. Gail and other affiliates of the farm also work on campaigns to create more equity in the food system. The Farm's mantra defines its’ core principles: Food as Medicine. Food as Culture. Food for our Future.