Episodes
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
EP. 17: Mycelial Networks of Seed Growers & the Truelove Seeds Listening Project
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Chris Keeve is a former Truelove Seeds apprentice and current seed grower in Kentucky who drove out for our annual Truelove growers gathering at our farm on October 22nd, 2022 to deliver seeds and conduct interviews for their dissertation: the Truelove Seeds Listening Project. With Truelove business manager and web wizard Sara Taylor recording the audio and interjecting occasionally, they talked to growers about their involvement in our network, including occasional seed stories, testimonials, suggestions, and which seeds they'd bring to another planet. This episode is a compilation of some of the interviews.
SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE:
- Korean Hong Gochu Pepper
- Paul Robeson Tomato
- Charleston Grey Watermelon
- Bitter Melon
- Mississippi Purple Hull Pea
- Cherokee Purple Tomato
- Potawatomi Pole Lima
- Shawnee Calico Bean
- Astronomy Domine Sweet Corn
- Heilige Boon (Holy Bean)
- Butternut Squash
- Seminole Pumpkin
- Kernza Grain
MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Truelove Seeds Growers Gathering post
- Chris Keeve featured on Seeds and Their People
- Care of Creation Ministries, Kenya
- SeedEd Farm
- Arcadia University Veteran Farmer Program
- Appel Farm Arts Camp
- Rowen White's Seed Seva Seasonal Mentorship Online Course
- Food as Public work by Pantaleon Florez of Maseualkualli Farm
- Poor Prole's Almanac
- Strawflower Farm
- Experimental Farm Network
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
FIND OWEN HERE:
FIND CHRIS HERE:
Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden
THANKS TO:
- Chris Keeve
- Sara Taylor
- The Cassell Family
- SeedEd Farm
- Amy June
- Olivia Gamber
- Jonathan Minick
- Nathan Kleinman
- Cecilia Sweet-Coll
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
EP. 15: Seeds of the African Diaspora with Amirah Mitchell & Sistah Seeds
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
In this fifteenth episode, Amirah Mitchell of Sistah Seeds gives us a tour of the African Diasporic seed crops on her farm in Emmaus, PA. She also describes her work to preserve seeds and stories of African-American, West African, and Afro-Caribbean foodways, how she got to this point, and where she is headed. Amirah worked for four years as an apprentice and coworker at Truelove Seeds, and we are so grateful for our continued collaboration as she embarks on the next phase of her work as a farm owner, seed keeper, educator, and inspiration to so many.
AMIRAH MITCHELL, SISTAH SEEDS:
- Web: sistahseeds.com
- Instagram: @sistahseeds
- Amirah in the press:
- Amirah Mitchell at Temple University
- Amirah's Seed Keeping Fellowship at Greensgrow
SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE:
- Moses Smith Yellow Cabbage Collards
- Sea Island Brown Cotton
- Blue Shackamaxon Bean (Lenape)
- Ezelle Family Fish Eye Pea
- Fish Pepper
- Benne (Sesame)
- Green Striped Cushaw Squash
- Sea Island Red Okra
- White African Sorghum
- Celosia
- Egusi Melon
- "Odell's" Large White Watermelon
- Chocolate Scotch Bonnet Pepper
- Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad Tomato
MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Heirloom Collard Project
- Heirloom Collard Project on NPR (featuring Amirah and Mama Ira Wallace!)
- Truelove Seeds Indigenous Seeds Rematriation (scroll to bottom)
- Kris Hubbard, Appalachian Seed Keeper
- Fish Pepper episode, Seeds and Their People
- Cushaw Squash in Michael Twitty's Afroculinaria blog
- The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration, by Chris Smith
- Herbal Affirmations, 'San' Kofi Sankofa, GoFundMe
- Lost Crops of Africa, Egusi
- Watermelon Men of Philadelphia, Inquirer article on the Carter family
- Ben Burkett, Federation of Southern Cooperatives
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
FIND OWEN HERE:
FIND CHRIS HERE:
Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden
THANKS TO:
- Amirah Mitchell
- Cecilia Sweet-Coll
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
EP. 13: Halima Salazar & Dria Price: Building a Bridge from Mississippi to Nigeria
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
This episode features Halima Salizar and Dria Price of Justevia Teas in Watervalley, Mississippi with a focus on their beloved food and medicine plants, their work, and the ways the food cultures of West Africa and the Southern US mirror each other. They grow, harvest, dry, and package their tea blends at their farm, and they host pop-ups with local restaurants featuring Nigerian foods. They also grow the seeds of Nigerian vegetables as well as heirlooms from Mississippi and Alabama for the Truelove Seeds catalog.
SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE:
- Honey Bean
- Purple Hull Pea
- Hibiscus
- White Velvet Okra
- Ginger
- Efo Aleho (Coming soon. Similar to Callaloo)
- Egusi
- Ewedu (Coming soon. Similar to Palestinian Molokhia)
- Ugu (Fluted Pumpkin)
- Locust Beans, fermented, aka Iru
- Stevia
MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Help Justevia buy a Farm!
- Justevia's Linktree
- Mr. Brown's Farm, Watervally, MS
- Chicory Market, Oxford, MS
- The Potlikker Papers, John T. Edge
- Southern Foodways Alliance podcast: Gravy
- Ewedu Broom on YouTube
- Seeds and Their People, EP 5: RAU ĐAY, LALO, SALUYOT, EWEDU, MOLOKHIA
- Molokhia Survey, by Antonio Tahhan
- Antonio Tahhan's Linktree
- Braiding Seeds Fellowship
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
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FIND OWEN HERE:
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FIND CHRIS HERE:
Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden
THANKS TO:
- Halima Salazar
- Dria Price
- Maebh Aguilar
- Zainab Muhammad
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Ep. 12: Mrs. Pearlie Mae Jackson Trotter: a Jewel of the Mississippi Delta
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
This interview overflows with deep wisdom, rough experience and a heapin’ side of humor all in Ms. Pearl’s pecan smooth Mississippi cadence and style. It is uncharacteristically long for our conversations and we know you will be BLESSED by every minute! Ms. Pearl is a daughter of the delta and migrated north. She was born and raised in what would today be considered deep poverty in the then and now poorest state of the union in a time and place where slavery was dead in name only. White supremacy and deep oppression of the working class was and remains a very real and present danger to peace, health, economic and spiritual progress in our beloved Mississippi.
There will be some parts of Ms. Pearl’s personal life story that might be hard for some listeners to hear. Also Ms. Pearl will be speaking from her deep life experiences, in her dialect and through her ways of knowing the world in which she matured. Please listen as always with a beginner's mind and an open heart to her intense sharing. Due to strong language and vivid descriptions of racist violence, this may not be suitable listening for young children.
SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE:
- Speckled Brown Butter Bean
- Mississippi Purple Hull Pea
- Mississippi Silver Hull Crowder Pea
- Seven Top Turnips
- Florida Broadleaf Mustard
- Collard Greens
- Rutabagas
- Okra coffee
- Shamrock/Wood Sorrel
- May Apples
MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE:
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:
Facebook | Tumblr | Instagram | Twitter
FIND CHRIS HERE:
Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden
THANKS TO:
- Mrs. Pearl Trotter
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Ep. 1: Seeds And Their People - Meet Chris and Owen
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Welcome to Seeds And Their People! In our first episode, we share some seed stories that are important to us, our ancestors, and our story as partners in life and love. You'll hear about the Irish Lumper potato, the field pea, the Borlotto bean, and okra. We also share how cotton and apples helped bring us together.
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