UCFA MEDIA MENTIONS

U.S. BOTANIC GARDEN  12/13/2024 

Join Ira and Bonnetta in a conversation at the U.S. Botanic Garden as they share their work of connecting histories and preserving diversity through the Heirloom Collards Project. Presenter: Ira Wallace, writer, seed-saver, educator with Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and Bonnetta Adeeb, farmer, educator, community organizer with Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance This program is offered as part of a partnership with Seed Savers Exchange and the Heirloom Coll

WNCT9 FARMVILLE, N.C.

Tessa Desmond and Bonnetta Adeeb of the Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project and the UJAMAA Cooperative Farming Alliance  gathered at the Farmville Community Garden in North Carolina to celebrate a year of growth.

GET UP DC  WUSA9 02/27/2023 UCFA is featured on WUSA9 a local CBS television station in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia metropolitan area.

Update to news reporter's end comment on the number of UJAMAA SEEDS orders sold to date. From January 2022 through February 2023 (14 months) Ujamaa Seeds has generated over 1500 seed orders, and sold over 11,000 seed packets, online, at local farmers markets, as well as, at several national farm and agriculture conferences along the east coast.

Former Vice President Al Gore, sends greetings to participants at the UCFA SPRING 2023 CONVENING. 

Earth Optimism 06/242022

Video of Bonnetta Adeeb of UCFA and Chrissie Orr from Seed Broadcast address seed saving as a method of sustainability at 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.