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SEED DREAMING SEASON: REVISITING A CONVERSATION with KEN GREENE, HUDSON VALLEY SEEDS

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FOODSCAPING - with Brie Arthur. Photo courtesy of Brie Arthur, all rights reserved.


January is prime seed-dreaming and seed-catalogue season. With that in mind we’re revisiting a favorite conversation all about generosity, mutual care, good seeds, and seed people. Who doesn’t need more of all those as we continue to lay the foundation for this new year?


Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first public library based seed lending library in the US; in 2008 he went on to co-found with his partner Doug Muller, Hudson Valley Seed Company, a seed and art company focused on heirloom and open pollinated vegetable, flower and herb seed. Ever more interested in seed literacy, sovereignty, and cultural seed rematriation, in 2016, K and Shanyn Siegel, a seed work colleague, founded the now-dormant non-profit, Seedshed, devoted to sharing and supporting the cultural, agricultural, and ecological diversity of seed.


K joins Cultivating Place this week to delve into the long view and deep relationships born of the generosity of seed – and seed people - in our garden lives. 


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All Photos courtesy of Hudson Valley Seed Company & K Greene; Photo of K and Doug by Annie Tomlin, Modern Farmer. All rights reserved.


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Thinking out loud this week:


Hey, it's Jennifer—


It has been two years now since the publication of my third book, "What We Sow, On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds". Ken Greene along with many other seed keepers and scholars were such keystones to that study and my own reflections on the study and care of seed.


And this concept of Cultivating and Gardening humans serving as Keystones to what we want to support, amplify, turn towards and re-weave in our world on many levels has continued to be a focus of mine since. The concept of Gardeners as Keystones informs the CP film series in the works as I write. For that you will have to wait a bit, BUT good news is, I will be at this year’s Northwest Flower & Garden Festival in Seattle WA February 19 – 22nd. Living out this belief each day when I will bring Cultivating Place - to life on stage in lively, thought-provoking conversations celebrating the people, plants, and places that shape our horticultural world.


Across three special sessions, I will welcome keystones Dan Hinkley, Doug Tallamy, and Rochelle Greayer for engaging interviews exploring the beauty, science, and legacy of gardening today… and the future.



I really hope you can be part of the audience as these conversations are recorded live for Cultivating Place… a rare chance to witness the stories, insights, and inspiration that help us all cultivate our own sense of place. Link to get tickets HERE! There are 6 complimentary tickets available, just enter promo code: SPKRF8J2 or visit this link while our quota lasts!


SEE YOU THERE!



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