A Landscape of Relations with Rowen White
Update: 2022-01-31
Description
In this episode, Rowen White—Mohawk farmer, seed keeper, and organizer—joins us to talk about relationships to land and food, upholding our responsibilities to our kin, and developing a new lexicon to talk about the food system. She shares her practice of cultivating relational, kin-centric foodways and the possibilities opened by this worldview.
Topics covered in this episode:
Min 1:38 : Meet Rowen White
Min 6:57 : The Mohawk creation story
Min 9:45 : Issues with the term “food system”
Min 12:42 : Cultivating kin-centric food ways
Min 16:30 : Rethinking the word “economy”
Min 18:05 : Rowen’s journey to seed keeping
Min 20:18 : Tomatoes as Rowen’s first seed teachers
Min 23:41 : The importance of food sovereignty
Min 26:38 : Food sovereignty vs. self-reliance
Min 28:20 : Farming in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California
Min 33:05 : How to build a connection to the land
Min 36:40 : What Rowen would bring to a feast honoring their ancestors
Spirit Plate is part of the Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about this episode of Spirit Plate at www.whetstoneradio.com, on IG and Twitter at @whetstoneradio, and YouTube at /WhetstoneRadio.
Guest: Rowen White (@rowenwhite)
Topics covered in this episode:
Min 1:38 : Meet Rowen White
Min 6:57 : The Mohawk creation story
Min 9:45 : Issues with the term “food system”
Min 12:42 : Cultivating kin-centric food ways
Min 16:30 : Rethinking the word “economy”
Min 18:05 : Rowen’s journey to seed keeping
Min 20:18 : Tomatoes as Rowen’s first seed teachers
Min 23:41 : The importance of food sovereignty
Min 26:38 : Food sovereignty vs. self-reliance
Min 28:20 : Farming in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California
Min 33:05 : How to build a connection to the land
Min 36:40 : What Rowen would bring to a feast honoring their ancestors
Spirit Plate is part of the Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about this episode of Spirit Plate at www.whetstoneradio.com, on IG and Twitter at @whetstoneradio, and YouTube at /WhetstoneRadio.
Guest: Rowen White (@rowenwhite)
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