CAAH! is proud to host the national tour of the SEED Broadcast- – which will drop in to Conway on their way back from the East coast where they will visit seed libraries and seed banks in New York, Vermont, Illinois and other locales.
Please join us at the CAAH! Seed Bank headquarters at UCA for an afternoon of seed broadcasting and share the stories of your seeds, gardens, farms, and the local food you love.
August 7, 2012
Time: 1-4PM
Conserving Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage (CAAH!)
Arkansas Local Food Network
Central Arkansas New Agrarian Society (CANAS)
At the University of Central Arkansas, Seed Lab
Burdick 307, 201 Donaghey, Conway, Arkansas
For more information:
Email: arlocalfoodnetwork@gmail.com
or BrianC@uca.edu
The SeedBroadcast Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station and Conserving
Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage, Arkansas Local Food Network, and Central Arkansas
New Agrarian Society are teaming up for a public seed story broadcast
event. Please join us! Come and share your personal seed stories. We would
like to interview you and hear more about your seed saving, gardening, and
farming passions, the local food you cherish, and your local seed bank. Also,
stop by, copy, and add to the Broadcast bulletin board – a cork board wall presenting
seed saving and organizing how to’s. You can also help create a mural
on the Broadcasting Station with collaged images of the seeds you love. Seed
Stories will be available to listen to, along with a Seed Broadcast video, Letter
From a Seed Broadcaster.
Bring some of your favorite seeds, so we can take a picture of you with
your seeds to include on the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station
mural.
Listen to your stories and others! We will be posting seed stories,
pictures, and a travel log from the Seed Broadcast Tour at our blog:
seedbroadcast.blogspot.com
For more information about SeedBroadcast please visit our website at: SeedBroadcast.org
Contact us at: SeedBroadcast@gmail.com or call: 1-505-718-4511
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Zachariah McCannon has worked diligently to complete the documentary that presents the story of CAAH! and insights into the seed saving subculture of the Arkansas Ozarks. Great work Zachariah. Please visit the official website of the documentary to learn of screenings and to purchase a copy. Get your official copy before the film hits AETN in the near future.
http://seedswapdocumentary.com
Enjoy your heirloom gardening in 2012!
Thanks,
CAAH!
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Buy Tickets at: https://community.uca.edu/sslpage.aspx?pid=394
CAAH! Fundraiser in Eureka Springs, AR Featuring
Live Music, Film Screenings and the 2nd Annual Seed Swap
CAAH! Conserving Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage
“One for the cut worm, one for the crow, one to share, and one to grow”
www.arkansasagro.wordpress.com, conservingarkansas@gmail.com
On March 10, 2012, University of Central Arkansas’s Conserving Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage (CAAH!) will host a Seed Swap, free of charge, from 10AM-2PM, at the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library, 194 Spring Street, and then a fundraiser at the New Delhi Restaurant, 2 N Main St, Eureka Springs, AR 72632. The fundraiser consists of film screenings, including the documentary film Seed Swap, directed by Zachariah McCannon, from 2:30-4PM, and the documentary film, The Natural State of America, directed by Terrell Case, Corey Gattin, and Timothy Wistrand, from 4:30-6:15. Each film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the film-makers and film-participants. The live music component of the fundraiser will be headlined by Eureka Springs’ own Mountain Sprout at 8pm, and the opening acts include Buck Bell and others to be announced beginning at 6:30. The pre-paid costs for the fundraiser are: $5 for films, $12 for films and music, $10 for live music only. The tickets may be advance purchased at: https://community.uca.edu/sslpage.aspx?pid=394 Proceeds go to the Conserving Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage non-profit account with the UCA Foundation and to assist the film-makers with DVD distribution.
WHAT: Seed Swap, Film Screenings, Live Music
Film Screenings: Seed Swap, directed by Zachariah McCannon 2:30-4 PM, Discussion with the film-maker and film participants to follow.
The Natural State of America, directed by Terrell Case, Corey Gattin, and Timothy Wistrand, 4:30-6:15 PM, Discussion and Q&A with film-makers and “characters.”
Live Music: Buck Bell and others TBA. Beginning at 6:30 PM; Mountain Sprout at 8 PM.
WHEN: March 10, 2012, Seed Swap: 10-2; Films: 2:30 and 4:30; Music: 6:30 and Mountain Sprout at 8 PM.
WHERE: Eureka Springs Library (Swap) and New Delhi, 2 N Main St, Eureka Springs, AR 72632
WHO: University of Central Arkansas Sociology Department ‘s CAAH! partnering with the Eureka Springs Library and any interested farmers and gardeners and the general public
WHY: To conserve the agricultural biodiversity of the Natural State, and to raise funds to allow CAAH! to continue growing out heirloom seeds and distributing them. Also, to raise awareness of conservation initiatives intended to keep the Natural State natural.
HOW IT WORKS: Anyone can bring seeds to swap or share. If you do not have seeds, you could bring envelopes or garden implements, anything to share or trade with other gardeners.
COST: None for the Seed Swap, Fundraiser Pre-Paid Costs: $5 for films, $12 for films and music, $10 for live music only. Fundraiser at the door: $7 films, $15 films and music, $12 music
Buy Tickets ahead of time to ensure your place!
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Zachariah McCannon has worked diligently to complete the documentary that presents the story of CAAH! and insights into the seed saving subculture of the Arkansas Ozarks. Great work Zachariah. Please visit the official website of the documentary to learn of screenings and to purchase a copy.
http://seedswapdocumentary.com
Enjoy your heirloom gardening in 2011!
Thanks,
CAAH!
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CAAH! to Co-sponsor Ten Seed Swaps throughout Arkansas in Spring 2011
CAAH! Conserving Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage
“One for the cut worm, one for the crow, one to share, and one to grow”
www.arkansasagro.wordpress.com
In addition to the 4th Annual Ozark Seed Swap at the Ozark Folk Center State Park and the 3rd Annual Faulkner County Seed Swap at the Faulkner County Library, CAAH! has collaborated with organizations all over the state to sponsor 2nd annual Seed Swaps in El Dorado, Fayetteville, Jasper, Russellville and Searcy, and to establish inaugural Seed Swaps in three additional communities: Eureka Springs, Hot Springs, and Little Rock.
| Date | Community | Location/Address | Time | Local Contact |
| Feb 2 | Searcy/
Beebe |
White County Fairgrounds
802 Davis Drive |
8-12 | Sherri Sanders, White County Cooperative Extension Service |
| Feb 19
|
Mountain View | Ozark Folk Center
Bois D’arc Conference Center 1032 Park Ave |
12-3 | Tina Marie Wilcox, Ozark Folk Center
(870) 269-3851 |
| Feb 19 | Russellville
|
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Sutherland Hall, 501 South Phoenix |
10-1 | Carolyn McLellan, (479) 968-6286, carolynmclellan@suddenlink.net |
| Feb 20 | Fayetteville | Fayetteville Senior Center
945 South College Avenue |
1-4 | Katy Deaton, Fayetteville Community Gardening Coalition (FCGC) |
| Feb 26 | Little Rock | Arkansas Flower and Garden Show
Statehouse Convention Center |
10-2 | (501) 821-4000, krista.quinn@yahoo.com arkansasflowerandgardenshow@yahoo.com |
| Feb 27 | Hot Springs | The Art Church Studio
301 Whittington Ave. |
2-5 | Benny Veteto, bjlake@cablelynx.com |
| March 5 | Jasper | Newton County Library
Community Room |
10-2 | Jennifer Tapp, |
| Mar 12
|
El Dorado | Barton (El Dorado) Public Library
200 East 5th Street |
10-1 | Nancy Arn, Barton Public Library,
narn@bartonlibrary.org (870) 863-5447 |
| Mar 12 | Eureka Springs | Eureka Springs Carnegie Library
194 Spring Street |
10-2 | Becky Gillette, bgillette4@cox.net |
| Apr 9 | Conway | Faulkner County Public Library
1900 Tyler Street |
10-2 | Jeanetta Darley, |
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS, CONWAY, ARKANSAS –Co-sponsored by churches, libraries, Master Gardener groups, a state park, and the Southern Seed Legacy, the University of Central Arkansas’s Conserving Arkansas’s Agricultural Heritage (CAAH!) project will host Seed Swaps around the state throughout Spring 2011. The Ozark Seed Swap at the Ozark Folk Center State Park will be the fourth annual, the Little Rock Inaugural Seed Swap will be held ceremoniously in conjunction with the Arkansas Flower and Garden Show, and the Hot Springs Inaugural Seed Swap will be co-sponsored by the eminent Southern Seed Legacy. We invite you to bring some open-pollinated (heirloom) seeds, bulbs, plants, and stories to swap with other seed savers. If you have no seeds to swap but want to get started, come along to mingle with gardeners and farmers who can help. We conserve the heritage of Arkansas as we share good stories, beautify our yards, feed our friends and family, and of course, trade seeds.
WHAT: 2011 Seed Swaps
WHEN: Spring 2011
WHERE: Conway, El Dorado, Eureka Springs, Fayetteville, Hot Springs, Jasper, Little Rock, Mountain View, Russellville, Searcy
WHO: University of Central Arkansas Sociology Department ‘s CAAH! partnering with the Arkansas Flower and Garden Show, Arkansas Sustainability, Network, Churches, Libraries, Master Gardeners, Garden Coalitions, the Ozark Folk Center State Park, the Southern Seed Legacy, and any interested farmers and gardeners
WHY: Arkansas farmers and gardeners have a legacy of heirloom seeds that are in danger of being lost, and sharing of seeds will encourage production of diverse varieties for posterity and sustainable food production.
HOW IT WORKS: Anyone can bring seeds to swap or share. If you do not have seeds, you could bring envelopes or garden implements, anything to share or trade with other gardeners.
COST: None.
Got Whippoorwills? Razorbacks? Red Rippers? Pencil Cob? Hickory King? Creasebacks? Turkey Craws? Want some? Come to the Old-Timey Ozark Seed Swap
The CAAH! project establishes a master collection of endangered seeds and related cultural and agronomic information, and distributes such seeds at annual Seed Swaps. University of Central Arkansas students document the seeds, grow them out in CAAH! gardens to distribute the next season, and catalogue them in a database of local varieties.
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Announcing the Inaugural Little Rock Seed Swap at the Arkansas Flower and Garden Show and screening of feature documentary by Zachariah McCannon: Seed Swap.
Please join us for the Little Rock Seed Swap 10-2 Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 at the 20th Annual Arkansas Flower and Garden Show!
“Gardening Through the Years” Feb. 25-27, 2011, Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock, AR
Documentary Film Screening and Q&A with the Director and Producer: Seed Swap, Saturday Feb. 26 at 2:30 PM
This documentary film uses the development of a seed exchange and agricultural biodiversity conservation project as an ethnographic lens to explore the seed saving subculture of Arkansas and the Ozark Highlands region. The film showcases the utility of applied anthropology to get the public involved in more localized food systems, presents a wide range of open-pollinated, heirloom seeds of the Ozarks, and illustrates the steps necessary to establish a community seed bank and host seed swaps.
Also, please join us at:
“Arkansas Flavors Farm to Table Dinner” at the Peabody Hotel on Friday, Feb. 25; tickets will be $60 each. Local foods advocate and author, Deborah Madison, will speak at the event.
All of these events are being hosted by the Arkansas Flower and Garden Show, a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting local horticultural businesses and educating the public about gardening, landscaping, and horticultural practices.
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