Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nThe Story Garden is the seed of The Seed Farm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWe like to say that we \u201cPlant seeds and tend relationships.\u201d\u00a0 In the quarter-acre plot that we call the Story Garden, we plant small accessions of seeds that have been shared with us by community partners, grow them using the information and methods shared with us, offer to leverage the resources of the university to investigate any questions related to the seeds of interest to our community partners, and then return the seed harvest back to the community partners to use in service of their missions related to food sovereignty and food justice.\u00a0 In the garden, student farmers tend the seeds but they are also attentive to their relationships to the plants, to the land, to each other, and to our community partners.\u00a0 In the Story Garden, our community partners define what varieties count as rare and culturally-meaningful; our community partners define the research agendas; and our community partners reap the harvest in full to support work of food sovereignty and food justice.<\/span><\/p>\nSome varieties that we have grown in the Story Garden include: Accawmacke Broccoli, Achocha, Appalachian Grex Bean Mix, Bittermelon, Della Sorghum, Kenearly Tomato, Lenni Lenape Blue Pulling Corn, Long Island Cheese Pumpkin, Madagascar Mung Bean, Maycock Squash, Nanticoke Squash, Okra Oil Seed Breeding Population, Perennial Sorghum, Perennial Wheat, ‘Sacre Bleu’ Bean, Syrian Eggplant, Tulsi Basil from Iraq, Tulsi Basil from Maldives, Ukranian Sunflowers, Ultracross Collards, Ultracross Okra, Yakteen Gourd, Zipser Turkenspitz Peppers<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″][vc_column_text]Mandy Qua ’23 (foreground) plants seeds in the Story Garden with Akhila Bandlora ’24 (background) and Brian Kook ’25 (right). Photo by Jared Flesher.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Faculty Lead: Tessa Lowinske Desmond Collaborating Partners: Experimental Farm Network, Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm, Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance The Story Garden is the seed of The Seed Farm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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