Today, Ibrahim picked up 3,500 plants of 40 locally-adapted tomato varieties from us. His team will pot them up for over 30 refugee farming families at Outgrowing Hunger's 18-acre accelerator farm site. Now, we begin educating our farmer allies on the specifics of seed increases!
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Photo of Ibrahim and Nick sitting on the back of a van filled with tomato transplants, smiling.
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Step-one. Instructions for seed saving on tomatoes. Our first, basic outline for Outgrowing Hunger's refugee farmers. Text too long to fit here.
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The Agrarian Sharing Network Seed Increase Initiative logo.
@ProjectOrchard That's it! The deep ecology of love. "...places & people that are at the cutting edge of cultural change & to feel the warmth of that beating heart," and, naturally, Vandana Shiva: “Biodiversity and cultural diversity need each other for the regeneration of nature and culture.”
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That's why today's news of a seed-increase collaboration with the heartland of Oregon's refugee-farming community lands so sweetly. Good friends, our Rohingya, Ukrainian, Rwandan and DRC Congolese allies in northern Oregon. About 30 families in all. Refugees from war and genocide, for the most part.