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The power of an indigenous seed to transform and transcend

Recuperation of lost indigenous seeds reawakens the cultural memory of the forgotten meals, rekindles hope of continuity, and gets communities working together again. Women’s prowess in seed knowledge, selection, saving practices as well as knowledge of indigenous seed storage structures come out through dialogues, an approach EarthLore uses in their…

The Planting of a Video-making Seed

Mashudu Takalani and Khumotso Kock from EarthLore participated in a 6-week on-line video training workshop, meeting once a week from 1 October to 5 November 2020. It was run by the Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI). Here is their account of making their first video: Continue reading

Developing resilient seed systems that reweave the social fabric of a community

At EarthLore Foundation, developing resilient seed systems is a process that is centred around community dialogues. It is in these community dialoguing circles that the memory of lost seeds is revived – the forgotten knowledge and the rich and deep connection of the seeds to the people on many levels…

Frontline Food Podcast- Method Gundidza on Interconnectivity in Zimbabwe

Frontline Food is a new podcast in which host Georgie Styles interviews activists and thought leaders, in search of the radical grass roots stories of our food systems. In this episode Georgie speaks to Method Gundidza, Earthlore’s director, on how the communities of Bikita, Zimbabwe, have revived traditional varieties of…

Improving household nutrition through diversifying household seed – The story of Ms Mildred Muchabaiwa, a farmer from the Gangare community in Bikita District, Zimbabwe

Miss Mildred Muchabaiwa is a young farmer in her early 30s living in Bikita, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. Through the community dialogues and agroecology training offered by EarthLore Foundation, Mildred has come to appreciate traditional seeds and has been amazed by her harvests during the 2019/20 farming season. This has been…

Bringing Bikita’s diversity to Harare’s Good Food Festival

By Sara Davies Fourteen farmers from Bikita, Zimbabwe, took part in the Good Food Festival, a 3-day celebration of organic and traditional food and seed in the capital city of Harare. The farmers, all women, were accompanied by EarthLore to attend the event, from the first day of Farmer Dialogues,…

Bikita Seed and Food Fair 2019

Over 1000 people attended the two-day Bikita Traditional Seed & Food Fair on 21 & 22 August 2019. This was the third year the Bikita farmers hosted the event at Chamas Garden in the village of Gangare with the support of EarthLore and the Zimbabwe Small-scale Organic Farmers’ Forum (ZimSOFF).…

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