Providing Ancestral Seeds to Community Based Collectives

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What is the Sowing Seeds Project?

The Sowing Seeds Project is an offering of love to BIPOC run/serving communities and collectives who are committed to restoring balance within our relationship to the land and our food systems.

We are offering a collection of open-pollinated seeds from TrueLove Seeds free of cost with the intention that folks have the opportunity to reconnect and reestablish relationship with ancestral seeds and continue their legacy through saving and sharing the seeds, their nourishment and their stories generously with their community.

What Seeds do We Offer?

Recipients can choose one of two different seed offerings based on ancestral heritage and permaculture design.

Collective Liberation Food Forest:

A food forest/guild (minus the tree) created from seeds around the world that support the well-being of one another

Ancestral Collection Series:

5 pre-selected seeds from a particular ancestral collection specified on the TrueLoveSeeds website

Each option automatically comes with a seed packet containing seeds indigenous to the lands that we are currently serving to honor the Lenape, Ohlone and Coast Miwok people and the relationships that have sustained the ecosystem since time immemorial.

What Seeds do We Offer?

Recipients can choose one of two options:

Collective Liberation Food Forest:

A food forest/guild (minus the tree) created from seeds around the world that support the well-being of one another

Ancestral Collection Series:

5 pre-selected seeds from a particular ancestral collection specified on TrueLoveSeeds website (link to website: https://trueloveseeds.com/)

Each option automatically comes with a seed packet containing seeds indigenous to the lands that we are currently serving to honour the Lenape, Ohlone and Coast Miwok people and the relationships that have sustained the ecosystem since time immemorial.

Our Ask

We know that the abundance of the Earth is sustained through collective participation in generosity; life thrives when we are able to give and receive generously and with gratitude. We ask that those who receive these seeds:

Build relationship with the seeds and their stories
Save the Seeds to continue their legacy
Share the Seeds with community freely

We are trusting that you will honor these asks according to your own capacity and commitment. In doing so, we continue the cycle of abundance and generosity for generations to come.

Our Ask

Build relationship with the seeds and their stories
Save the Seeds to continue their legacy
Share the Seeds with community freely

We are trusting that you will honour these asks according to your own capacity and commitment. In doing so, we continue the cycle of abundance and generosity for generations to come.

Who Can Apply

You qualify to receive these seeds if the following items are applicable:

Are a member of a BIPOC run/supporting community-based group or collective
community gardens, herbal medicine collective, seed keepers collectives, school-based projects, intentional communities, etc.
Have experience with seed saving and keeping
- Those with a deep understanding of why seed keeping is important + experience in growing food are still welcome to apply
Have access and relationship to land
Have a commitment to restoring balance in food system and and liberating human relationship to land

Who Can Apply

You qualify to receive these seeds if you:

Are based in New York City or The Bay Area
Are a member of a BIPOC run/supporting community-based group or collective community gardens, herbal medicine collective, seed keepers collectives, school-based projects, intentional communities, etc.
Have experience with seed saving and keeping
Those with a deep understanding of why seed keeping is important + experience in growing food are still welcome to apply
Have access and relationship to land
Have a commitment to restoring balance in food system and and liberating human relationship to land

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Our Team

Founder & Visionary

sydney searchwell-simpson

passionate light. proud auntie. fabulous dancer. tender & fierce-hearted warrior. lover of life. story weaver. queen of the felines.

Co-Founder

eni asebiomo

designer and builder. avid reader and mythology nerd. digger of backyard holes in search of new worlds

Our Mission

Sowing Seeds is part of a larger movement of transforming modern ways of relating to our communities, the earth, and how we sustain ourselves through our food-growing practices.

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