[Lapg] 6th Annual Strengthening the Roots Community Seed and Food Justice SummitUC Santa Cruz - February 22-24

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

6th Annual Strengthening the Roots
Community Seed and Food Justice Summit
UC Santa Cruz - February 22-24
Join us for a weekend-long student organized event that brings together 
students, community members, seed savers, gardeners, farmers, and food 
justice activists to share skills and resources while building face to 
face relationships with one another.
https://www.facebook.com/events/114721822026138/

www.Seedlibraries.org/seedsummit

The summit will:

Connect participant stakeholders with community based initiatives to 
help build a resilient and bioregional food system.
Ground participants with the story of seeds and how they are at the crux 
of cultivating a sustainable agricultural system.
Be interactive and fun, thereby acknowledging all participants as 
teachers and learners.

Updated Conference Schedule*

Friday, February 22nd

7:00 - 8:00 pm - Dinner and Mixer

8:00 - 9:00 pm - Opening Activities

Saturday, February 23rd

7:00 am - 7:45 am - Yoga

8:00am - 9:00am - Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:15 Welcome and Introductions

10:30 am - The World Cafe: Envisioning Interdependency -

11:00 am -12:30 pm - Workshops Session I

2:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm-3:30 pm Workshops Session II

4:00pm - 5:00pm - Plenary--Bill McDorman - Executive Director—Native 
Seed SEARCH

5:00 pm - 6:45 pm - Community Seed & Culture Swap over Dinner

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Speaker panel - Vandana Shiva, Miguel Altieri, Eric 
Holt-Gimenez, Pamela Ronald, and Dr. Joseph DeVries

Sunday February 24th

7:00 am - 7:30 am - Yoga

7:30am - 8:20am - Breakfast

8:20am - 8:30 am –Morning Announcements—Kresge Town Hall

8:30am - 4:00pm —Sowing Seeds from the Summit —Participant driven 
conversations using the Open Space Technology Process - facilitated by 
Lisa Heft—Kresge Town hall

11:45am-12:45pm—Lunch

2:30-4:00pm—Closing Ceremony



List of workshops

Introduction to Seed Saving— Don Tipping—Seven Seeds Farm, Siskiyou 
Seeds, Family Farmers Seed Cooperative

The Evolution of a Wild Foodscape: Land Tenureship History of UCSC 
Campus—Kate Jaffee--UC Santa Cruz Student Leader

Biodynamic farming and gardening demystified—Delmar McComb--Blossom's 
Biodynamic Farm

Fiber System 101: Natural-Dye Workshop— Anna-Ruth Crittenden and William 
Goss--UC Davis Student Leaders

Co-creating a Network of Student Cooperatives in California—Eric 
Recchia-- Regional Organizer--Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED)

Growing & Cleaning Vegetable Seed—Patrick O’Connor—Bay Area Seed 
Interchange Library (BASIL)

Creating Sustainable Seed Enterprises; Bioregional Seed 
Cooperatives—Rowen White, Sierra Seed Cooperative

Food Sovereignty in the Global South—Kate Jaffee & Nadia Peralta (UCSC 
Student Leaders)

Strengthening the Suburban Ecosystem—Rishi Kumar and Carter Wallace 
—Institute of Urban Ecology (IUE)

The Real Food Challenge -- Alex Villegas and Chloe Rice -- Regional 
Field Organizers--Real Food Challenge (RFC)

UCSC Farm & Garden Tour - Damian Parr (Research and Education 
Coordinator CASFS), Fortino Morales (UCR Community Garden), and Dave 
Shaw (Lecturer at UCSC)

Tour of the UCSC Student-Run Gardens —Lidia Tropeano & Sophie 
Barnhorst-- UC Santa Cruz Student Leaders

For more information and general inquiries please email the organizers 
at strengthenroots at gmail.com


“Attend” our Facebook event to stay updated on convergence programming 
-http://www.facebook.com/events/114721822026138/

Seed Summit
seedlibraries.org
6th Annual Strengthening the Roots Community Seed and Food Justice 
Summit UC Santa Cruz - February 22-24 Join us for a weekend-long student 
organized event…


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