‘Growing Together’ Series Continues With Clayton Brascoupé Of TNAFA Speaking On Seed Saving
WHEN: 7-8 p.m. Thursday, April 29.
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This presentation is the second in “Growing Together,” a gardening and seed saving series, running April to May, organized by Los Alamos History Museum, Los Alamos Public Library System and PEEC.
Brascoupé, Mohawk / Anishnabeg, is a life-long gardener/farmer, and began working on family subsistence garden and commercial farms at age 13. He is a founding member of and Program Director of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association (TNAFA) a non-profit inter-tribal association of Indigenous farmers, gardeners, educators, and health professionals.
Quick Read By Richard Mertens Correspondent
Luke Kapayou, who grew up on the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama, Iowa, noticed as he got older that fewer people were gardening. So he resolved to keep growing traditional beans and squash, and he began to seek out other varieties both on and off the settlement.
“I don’t know, I think I believe these seeds are sacred,” he says. “It makes me want to keep growing them, and I want to make sure our kids keep growing them.”
Why We Wrote This
“Food sovereignty” emphasizes local food production and people’s agricultural and culinary heritage. For Native Americans, it’s a way to repair damage inflicted when European Americans severed them from their traditional ways.
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