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Presenter - Jennifer Williams - September 9th, 2024
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"My greatest hope is that by growing food, herbs and medicine, and seeds on this farm I can reconnect myself and my community to right ways of living, giving, and connecting with the living world. Small scale farming in peace with the soil, the creatures, and the earth is what I do to contribute to the movements for climate justice, racial justice, and to re-root myself and our culture back into the earth." - Jennifer Williams
Wild Dreams Farm, a shy two acre piece of land on Vashon Island’s west side, is lovingly tended by me, Jennifer Williams, alongside my family and my friends. Over time this piece of land has transformed from a blackberry thicket to a market garden to a lavender farm to a homestead and finally today, to a biodiverse food, medicine and seed farm. I am always learning and changing and this land reflects my evolution of heart and inspiration.
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The vision of Wild Dreams Farm is to ensure abundance and biodiversity in our culture and in our food system for generations to come by growing food and medicines and by breeding open pollinated vegetables, herbs, and seeds which nourish our human and more than human communities.
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Bringing our hands back into the seed’s cycle of life can be a transformational experience. It was for me. To watch the plants grow and express their uniqueness throughout their entire life cycle-from germination, to leaf, stem, and root growth, to flowers and pollination, then to seed ripening and drying down-feels like a miracle to me. To open a seed pod and have an abundance of big or small or purple or brown or almost invisible seeds fall into my hand never ceases to amaze me.
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Wild Dreams Farm Values
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Tend the land with respect for all life
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Give back in Reciprocity
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Re-culture and restore relationship to the land and to each other through food and seed
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Educate and re-skill growers of all kinds to the art and age-old practice seed saving and home based plant breeding
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Connect the past, present and future through seed
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Resource List from Wild Dreams Farm and Seed
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Books I recommend :
The Seed Garden-Michaela Colley and Jared Zystro
The Resilient Gardener and anything by Carole Deppe
Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
Farming While Black- Leah Penniman
Podcast series I recommend:
The Seed Growers Podcast with Dan Briseboise
Seeds and Their People by True Love Seeds
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Bioregional Seed Companies I Love:
These are breeder grower seed companies dedicated to the good work of selling only open pollinated seed.
Salt Spring Seeds-https://www.saltspringseeds.com/
Uprising Seeds-https://uprisingorganics.com/
Resilient Seeds-http://www.resilient-seeds.com/
Adaptive Seeds-https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/
Wild Garden Seeds-https://www.wildgardenseed.com/
Siskiyou Seeds-https://www.siskiyouseeds.com/
Snake River Seed Cooperative- https://www.snakeriverseeds.com/
Strictly Medicinal Seeds-https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/
True Love Seeds-https://trueloveseeds.com/
My Seed Mentors:
Rowan White: A Mohawk seed keeper committed to living and teaching the sacred relationship between humans and seed and the earth. http://sierraseeds.org/, and The Indigenous Seedkeepers Network
Vandana Shiva and Navdanya-”Conserving diversity, reclaiming the Commons”
Organic Seed Alliance: A wonderful organization in Pt. Townsend, WA dedicated to seed education, advocacy, and research. https://seedalliance.org/
Seed Ambassadors Project-This is a wonderful introductory seed saving zine and story. https://www.seedambassadors.org/seed-saving-guide/
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