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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