Sowing Connections with Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange presents Sowing Connections, a new podcast exploring the surprising journeys of seeds and the practices and people who care for them. Episodes will highlight conversations with farmers, community organizers, chefs, and everyday enthusiasts who are making a meaningful impact. Together, we’ll dig into traditions, science, and personal stories that help keep our food heritage thriving. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener, seed saver, or simply curious, all are welcome.
Sowing Connections with Seed Savers Exchange
Latest Episodes
Episode 5: Growing Together with Elizabeth Henderson
Seeds are sustained through the people who grow, save, and share them. In this episode of Sowing Connections, we explore the role that relationships and community can play in keeping seeds, farms, and local food systems thriving.
Episode 4: A Passion for Seeds • From the Archives with Neil Lockhart
For more than 30 years, Neil Lockhart has been growing, saving, and sharing seeds and building friendships with fellow seed savers around the world.Neil grew up in a family of gardeners and began saving seeds years before joining
Episode 3: What Shapes What We Eat? with Marion Nestle
Before we decide what to eat, countless other decisions have already shaped the choices available to us. In this episode of Sowing Connections, Seed Savers Exchange explores how choices about seeds, agriculture, policy, and markets inf...
Episode 2: A Home for Living Seeds • From the Archives with Diane Ott Whealy
Seed Savers Exchange began with one family wondering how to protect a few cherished seed varieties from being lost.As a young girl, Seed Savers Exchange co-founder Diane Ott Whealy spent summers on her grandparents’ porch, surrounded by ...
Episode 1: Seeds as Living History with Michael Twitty
Whether large or small, seeds represent so much more than the food they produce. This episode features groundbreaking author and food historian Michael Twitty, who joins Seed Savers Exchange to explore the concept of culinary justice and discus...