Seed: The Untold Story Page #8

even if it's rutabaga sex.

You can hire someone to

come fix your plumbing.

I'm sure we know for a fact

that you can hire someone

to make love to your

spouse, for example,

and they'll sure as hell do

a better job than you will,

but no somehow we feel like,

"Nah, I really want

to do that myself."

Some things are

just too important.

This is right up there with

making love to your spouse.

So this is the office where

all my stuff is stored.

I don't know quite

how many thousands

of varieties and samples

of seeds are here.

This is a horrible mess.

Uh, this is about as

good as it gets here.

I live in chaos

and this room is one of the

more chaotic parts of the house.

All of these boxes on top

are waiting to get refiled.

I never can seem to get enough.

I've tried to level

off in recent years

to something that I can handle.

Rutabagas, over here.

Sometimes thought that if the

house were to catch on fire

and I had to do something

very, very quickly,

hopefully I would

first make sure

that all the family

were all safely out,

but somehow, deep inside,

I'm afraid that I would

probably rush in here,

smash out the windows and

start throwing boxes of

seeds out to the firefighters

and hope that they understood

what to do with them,

don't turn the hoses

on them or something.

I have sweat a lot over

the things that I lose.

No one in the future can save

them, they'll already be lost.

I see no end, no end in sight,

except when I am cremated.

That concerns me sometimes,

who will take this over.

(calm and serene strings music)

It took six years

to save seeds.

I have to cultivate the

entire farm organically.

I said to my brother,

we need to save our

traditional seeds.

I was overjoyed when

my brother agreed.

I felt so happy,

my family agreed to

do organic farming.

(women sing in Hindi)

Whatever I have learned,

I want to spread that

in my entire region.

Suman emerged as a leader.

She came forward for

this noble purpose

to serve her community.

If another farmer

does not have the seed

then I can give it to him.

We can help each

other with our seeds.

(easygoing and

festive drum music)

(low rumbling)

Jack and the beanstalk

is a true story!

The idea we all laughed at,

that he would trade his

pig or his cow or whatever

for a handful of beans is like,

what a silly thing is that.

But if you think

about the potential

of the self replicating system

that's in your hand and what

it can potentially produce.

We should all trade

in everything we have

for a handful of beans.

One of our fairytales is

actually trying to teach us

that's unbelievably important.

(giant grumbles)

(soft and relaxing

strings music)

I woke up one night about

three o'clock in the morning,

I sat up straight

in my bed and I went

"Ah seed school! We

gotta teach this stuff."

We got to open up a space

and teach them what we know,

to having this

resilient fabric again.

I'm going back to the 10,000

year old way of doing it.

To have everybody, everywhere,

saving and storing and

sharing their own seeds

regionally, the way it

always has been done.

When we teach about seeds,

we rewrite ourselves back

into that evolutionary dance

between plants and humans.

We initiate a whole new

generation of people

who care for life.

It's the seeds asking

to be spoken for again.

As a Mohawk woman,

seeds embody the sense

of hope for the future

that we could create

something different,

a new paradigm for our children.

We have to make that

promise to the corn,

that we will nourish

ourselves from it

but we will also give back.

All of these seeds,

they are going to

move to his new house.

We have the, I would say, the

blessing of the great spirit,

of the mother earth.

All the protectors and

the spirits of this land

and they say you guys have

to finish the seed bank.

(calm and serene music)

We beginning to make the

impact on our pueblo,

in our community.

Stone by stone, mud by

mud we have this building.

All these seeds

they have memory.

They happy in this moment.

(moves into joyous

strings music)

The seed bank, it

represents life.

(group sings in

foreign language)

Those young men and women

are carrying on a tradition

of our community.

And I see the young people

happy and the corn is happy,

the birds are happy,

because that's who we are.

We grow a really

great variety of squash.

Archaeologists dug down and

they came upon a clay ball

that was about this big.

And in that clay ball,

they shook it and

they heard something.

They cracked it open and

it was a squash seed.

They carbon dated

it 800 years old.

And I always laugh

because I say white guys get

to name things all the time.

So I'm gonna name this one

and I call it Gete-Okosomin,

which means really

cool old squash.

(moves into sweet and

lighthearted strings music)

It's time for us to

take back that manna.

It's so important to get

back to our food source.

Take back that ability

to self-sustain

as our ancestors once did.

This food forest here,

could feed hundreds of people.

We could be the self-sustainable

epicenter of the world

and there's no

reason we can't be,

we can grow any fruit or

vegetable on these islands.

We planted 21

banana trees today,

as a team as a family, we

can accomplish anything.

And we went from

this much diversity,

took 10,000 years to create,

down to this pinch with

only four percent left,

and we're right here.

Right?

And so we're gonna,

we're waking up.

We're gonna do this

it's knowing that in

each individual seed

is the potential to

change it all back.

(seeds rattle)

(moves into soft

and melodic music)

In the heart of the

seed, there's a story

Waiting to be born

Our grandmothers breeded,

our grandfathers breeded

Kindered the ancient call

In the heart of the seed,

there's a story to read

In the heart of the seed

There a whole tribe to feed

Our sweet savers know it

Our fathers, they grow it

And from that seed we are born

Mother nature is essential

for ascension for the land

Granulations are essential

for ascension in our life

Old creation from our beings

is essential for us to thrive

Anticipation for our nations

is essential for our tribe

For our tribe

Mother nature is essential

for ascension for the land

Granulations are essential

for ascension in our life

Old creation from our beings

is essential for us to thrive

Anticipation for our nations

is essential for our tribe

For our tribe

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