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In October a super event will happen in France. It will bring together hundreds of farmers from all over discussing seed saving landrace style.
The French version book presentation will take place! Conferences will be filmed and seeds exchanged!
After Joseph will travel the continent to seed saving collectives. Help us pay for this trip!
Joseph’s European Speaking Tour
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Help Joseph spread seeds across Europe. In October a super-inspiring event will take place in the south of France, in the Mediterranean city of Antibes. It will bring together hundreds of farmers from all around the world discussing the importance of adaptation agriculture, seed saving and outgrowing, experiences so far and solutions to problems that farmers implementing it face. There will be numerous workshops surrounding seed saving, endophytes and everything crop breeding related from the 3th, 4th and 5th of October, for and by farmers and experts from over a hundred countries. We’ll enjoy fresh local food and a day of seed exchange for farmers open to public.
Going to Seed will have a stand with diversely tongued people explaining the landrace concept to interested gardeners and farmers alike. We’ll have flyers in French and English. And the stand will be beautifully decorated by the members of the group. The presentation of the French version of Joseph’s book will take place, the start of a paradigm shift in seed saving techniques for a deeply agricultural society in the heart of Europe as well as a few hundred million French speaking people living in Africa. The conferences, are taking place in two buildings, sometimes five or six subjects will be covered simultaneously. Impossible to follow that all. GTS has gotten a grant to organize a local film crew to film the most relevant conferences and audio tape all the others for podcasts. We understand not everybody worldwide can afford to fly in, so we hope to make live streaming of the event available for everybody to see online. The audio will be made into podcasts in four languages.
To dynamize the rusty seed saving situation in Europe even further, Joseph has been invited by several seed saver collectives spread throughout Europe. The planned tour involves Croatia, Thomas Picard’s collective in Limoges, Brittany France, Scotland, England and it will end in Copenhagen Denmark with an event that brings together kitchen and field at the city’s culinary school hosted by Malte Rod & colleagues. Since the last 15 years, Copenhagen has become one of the most lively cities for gastronomy and the seed saving community is experiencing a growing interest in adaptive and diverse seed.
They’re aiming to get diverse wheat grower Anders Borgen, landrace gardener Bodil Gimbel and perennial vegetables guru Stephen Barstow to come. As well as members of the culinary community that are interested in working with genetic crop diversity and community-oriented breeding.
The planned tour will come at a price, we’re expecting to need 3000 dollars for travel expenses and we’re hoping we can count on you or your organization’s help to make this possible. The following (people and) organizations have made this event possible.
Going to Seed: Inspiring a shift in agriculture towards adaptation, community, and diversity. Sponsored plane tickets to get Joseph and Julia Dakin to Europe. We’re immensely grateful to Going to Seed for working together and helping out as much as needed to spurt on our common mission of making folks and farmers alike more resistant while leaving the planet healthier and tastier.
International Farmer Seeds Gathering: Sow Your Resistance co-organized by the french network (Réseau Semences paysannes), the SOL NGO (alternatives agroécologiques et solidaires), and the local Seed House (Maison des Semences Maralpines) .
Gaia Foundation, Seed Sovereignty UK and Ireland Programme, working with experts and growers across the UK and Ireland for a food revolution that starts with seeds.
Copenhagen Hospitality College. Host for the main event on 20th October.
Frøsamlerne (Danish Seed Saver Association). Partner for main event and farm visits plus accommodation for Joseph
