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.
Miriam Makeba loves seed freedom
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Rasa Dover Seed Fairy Extraordinaire
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When Rasa lived in Japan she joined Seed Savers Network as a foundation member in 1999. When she returned...
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Vanuatu. We Took Part In An Australian Aid Program. It Was More About Helping Your Country Than Ours
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Australia has long held an ideological opposition to the way of life of my people in Vanuatu. Customary land,...
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Dorothy banana collection: 110 varieties premature death
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Dorothy Tamasia, 19 collected and replanted in her school in the island of Makira, Solomon Islands. She died off...
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Alfredo Bonanno: prolific illustrator
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Alfredo grew all the plants so he had a life model to draw the hundreds of illustrations for the...
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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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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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Muhammad Ali Discovers Seed Savers in Cuba
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In 1996, Jude and me Michel happen to cross paths with a humanitarian mission led by Muhammad Ali and a...
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Dr Liz multi talents at work
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Dr Liz Elliot multi talented medical practitioner. She produced a few hundred illustrations in a very short space of...