This episode bridges the wisdom of a Seed Keeper & Farmer and an Activist Physician & Healer to discuss weaving the legacy of art & medicine. The Seed Keeper, Rowen White, is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds. The Physician, Geeta-Maker Clark, is physician board certified in both family medicine and Integrative Medicine.

What does it mean to have a values-based food system? How do we bridge the different roles people take on in different industries and communities?

Learn how cultural and ancestral memories inform our work and how shedding light on missing narratives in food creates a path toward a resilient & equitable local food system.

More about this episode:

Rowen White @rowenwhite

https://www.patreon.com/rowenwhite

Geeta Maker-Clark @foodplantsdancedoc

https://www.castaneafellowship.org/castanea-fellows/fellows-2019/geeta-maker-clark/

A Castanea Fellowship Podcast

@castaneafellowship / castaneafellowship.org/rooted-wisdom/

Conversation Guide: Aileen Suzara

@aileensuzara @sariwakitchen

Voice Talent: Mark Winston Griffith

@mwgriffith @bkmovement

Produced by: EmpathyHaus

empathyhaus.com

This episode bridges the wisdom of an ecosystem innovator and a journalist to discuss the resilience of urban communities in their fight for food access. The Innovator, Erika Allen, is the Co-founder and CEO of the Urban Growers Collective. The Journalist, Mark Winston Griffith, is the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center.

What does it mean to be a community organizer? How have communities been exploited because of food?

Learn how innovating democratic food systems and intergenerational organizing in black neighborhoods creates a path toward a resilient & equitable local food system.

More about this episode:

Erika Allen @urbangrowerscollective

urbangrowerscollective.org/

Mark Winston Griffith @bkmovement

brooklynmovementcenter.org/

A Castanea Fellowship Podcast

@castaneafellowship / castaneafellowship.org/rooted-wisdom/

Conversation Guide: Aileen Suzara

@aileensuzara @sariwakitchen

Voice Talent: Mark Winston Griffith

@mwgriffith @bkmovement

Produced by: EmpathyHaus

empathyhaus.com

This episode bridges the wisdom of an Indigenous Land Steward and a Food Equity Educator to discuss the memories and songs that shape our homes. The Steward, Lilian Hill, is the Executive Director of The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. The Educator, Shorlette Ammons, leads the Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ committee on racial equity.

What changes are we seeing in how we gather around food with our families and interact with the people who provide it? How we more deeply understand our relationship to the earth?

Learn how ancestral knowledge informs their lives, how they navigate the complexities around food access, and how colonization and slavery impact food and the path toward resilient & equitable local food systems.

More about this episode:

Lilian Hill @redfox_hill

nativefoodalliance.org/

Shorlette Ammons @shorlettea

A Castanea Fellowship Podcast

@castaneafellowship / castaneafellowship.org/rooted-wisdom/

Conversation Guide: Aileen Suzara

@aileensuzara @sariwakitchen

Voice Talent: Mark Winston Griffith

@mwgriffith @bkmovement

Produced by: EmpathyHaus

empathyhaus.com