11:00 am, September 17 2023
Conway Hall / Online
Speaker: Helene Schultz
Ever heard of the Pink Plum tomato? The Mayan Jaguar lettuce, Lablab Bean or maybe the French Marigold?
To enlighten us on such things we are delighted to welcome Helene Schultz who is part of the collective behind the London Freedom Seed Bank, a grassroots urban seed network, stewarding over 170 London-grown vegetable, herb and flower varieties and helping to keep them alive and flourishing for future generations. She is also doing a PhD exploring the urban seed commons. She is interested in the ways seed savers, particularly of migrant heritage, subvert a long colonial and xenophobic regime which has dominated (and profited from) the international movement of plant material.
Helene is the editor of The Preserve Journal and part of the Garden of Earthly Delights, a guerrilla gardening collective. She is interested in mutual aid, particularly from feminist, anticolonial, antiracist and indigenous perspectives, and how working with seeds can help us build more just and care-full futures.