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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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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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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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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Stuart Owen Fox and Einstein
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Stuart Owen Fox 1942-2009, was an influential photographer for over 40 years who took a shine at Seed Savers....
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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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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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Seed safe in gardeners hands: the Syrian war
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Farrmers in Syria have their own networks to give and exchange vegetable and grain seeds. They always had. How...