Miriam Makeba the champion of freedom who was married to a Black Panthers, felt that seed belong to peasant farmers not corporations. After her concert in Brisbane Australia she asked Michel and Jude for a drink at her hotel in Brisbane while on her may 1995 Australian tour,
She loved the SeedSavers concept she even carried back to South Africa a copy of the newly published Seed Savers Handbook.
Jude had been at her first post apartheid in Cape Town while she was teaching two Permaculture Designers Certificated in SA. She loved seed freedom.
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Michelle Margolis Garden of Eden in Sydney
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Michele Margolis is a very active educator and mentor in Australian Permaculture spheres, and a strong voice and living...
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Christian Watts – Web Developer
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Christian came aboard in late 2013 to create the new Seed Savers website, complete with a social network system...
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Transformational Film Assistance
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Micheal Shaun Conaway and wife Alex Melnyk brought Our Seeds the documentary we produced and its message to the...
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Dr. Vanaja Ramprasad
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We met Vanaja at a seed meeting with Vandana in Inida and we became friends. She invited us to...
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Walking with Satish Kumar
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We had the pleasure of previously hosting Satish Kumar, at Seedsavers in Byron Bay, on one of his world...
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John Brisbin – Consultant
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When I first met Jude and Michel at the Vaucluse Open Garden Day in 1997 it was an encounter...
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The peasant farmers of Papua New Guinea
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They are the salt of the world. We got so much inspiration from PNG people who are one of the...
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Dorothy village visionary in Makira
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Collecting banana varieties and species rare and endangered was Dorothy’s passion. She lived with husband a bush carpenter and...