Qachuu Aloom Presentation at Beyond Baroque

Please Join the Seed Library of Los Angeles, Kiss The Ground, and Environmental Change Makers as they welcome Qachuu Aloom Farmers Association and The Garden’s Edge to Beyond Baroque.

Qachuu Aloom farmers will present their work in Guatemala around farms, gardens, seed saving, community health, farmer exchanges, education, and economic sustainability.

EVENT DETAILS:
The farmers will present a slide show and answer questions about their project.
LOCATION: Beyond Baroque
ADDRESS: 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
START TIME: 8:00 PM

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Event Sponsors include:
Seed Library of Los Angeles,
Kiss The Ground,
Environmental Change-Makers, and
Metabolic Studio.

Additional information from one of the event sponsors, Environmental Change Makers:

When aid organizations brought only hybrid and GMO seeds that the farmers could not replant to grow food, fields went barren.  A few elders brought out precious stashes of old varieties of seed that had been saved in old bottles and roof tiles.  Thus started an organization that seems to be part seed library, part community revitalization, and part cultural re-membering.

Here is a beautiful story about Qachuu Aloom seed saving (pdf) as described in Baker Creek’s magazine, and another conveying their remark that the permaculture principles are “just like I learned from my grandmother.”

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