Care Package Order Form:
PACKAGES include: spiral-bound reader (140 pages, 8.5"x 5.5") and Callaloo (amaranth) seeds from TrueLove Seeds, grown by East New York Farms! in Brooklyn, NY.
Suggested donation: $25.
Sliding scale for Black, indigenous and people of color: $0 - $15.
Pay it Forward to offer additional support for the panelists and sliding scale offering.
Donation includes shipping.
~~~ About the project:
Perfect Knowledge of the Ground is an agricultural knowledge propagation project organized by RL (Raina) Martens, aiming to reframe the roots of our current ecological crisis and share Black and indigenous alternatives to the capitalist and colonialist episteme.
This project originally appeared at the Washington Project for the Arts in the spring of 2020 as a virtual bookshelf, free mail-order care package (including a printed reader with selections from the virtual bookshelf and seeds for planting) and a film screening.
This fall, a new iteration of the project takes shape as a virtual panel discussion at the NYC Urban Soils Institute's annual symposium and a second pressing of the reader. Care packages are offered for a suggested donation and funds from the packages after materials + shipping go to paying the panelists and to making the packages available for low or no cost to BIPOC.
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Perfect Knowledge of the Ground Panel Discussion @ the virtual NYC Urban Soils Institute Symposium
Saturday, October 31st, 2-3:30PM EST
Panelists:
+Dr. Suzanne Pierre and Kunal Palawat of the Critical Ecology Lab
+Blain Snipstal of the Black Dirt Farm Collective
+Makalé Cullen of the NYC USI
Moderated by RL (Raina) Martens.
Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soils-the-living-fabric-of-health-usi-5th-annual-symposium-tickets-118955672619
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