Saving Seeds at Home with Vandana Shiva

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This video was developed in cooperation with Dr. Vandana Shiva and the Navdanya Organization. Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva's work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. his great video

On our way down to the 2022 Federation of Southern Cooperatives Annual Conference in Alabama, we stopped in Asheville, North Carolina to learn how to clean collard seeds.  UCFA partner Chris Smith of the Utopian Seed Project and the Heirloom Collard Project demonstrated a relatively low tech process of cleaning collard seeds. Joining Chris in this seed cleaning session is Pat Battle of Living Web Farms along with Bonnetta Adeeb and Chanda Banks of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance.  Length

This documentary film shares the stories of seed savers from across the three regions of the Philippines—Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Despite encountering various systemic barriers, these farmers persist in their seed-saving efforts in the hopes of preserving indigenous culture, native biodiversity, and agricultural heritage.