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S2 Ep6: Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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Is There a Connection Between Seeds and People?

At 17 I was on an organic farm in Massachusetts learning how food is grown. Each of these seeds had a lineage and connection to people and a connection to place. There was this undeniable feeling of grief and longing and sadness that I as a Mohawk woman had no idea what were the seeds and foods that fed my ancestors. "I made a promise to myself at that moment," she says, "to find out like what who are the foods thatfed my ancestors"

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