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Seeds and humans co-evolved, and in many cultures, seeds are sacred objects.
Students in ENS 392 - Sustainable Agriculture: Ideas and Techniques participated in an experiential seed saving activity, harvesting seeds from the food crop Buckwheat, medicinal herb Echinacea, and culinary herb Dill, while also considering the connections between agriculture and spirituality in class.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass
Students read the chapter titled "The Honorable Harvest" in Braiding Sweetgrass by botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, who also is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, to learn about the "indigenous canon of principles and practices that govern the exchange of life for life."
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke
Students learned about the Anishinaabe belief in plants and food as ancestors.
Food Systems and Spirituality
Food Systems and Spirituality
And students got a broad overview of the relationship between the food system and spirituality in both Eastern and Western traditions by reading work by Todd LaVassseur.
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