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6th Semillas y Culturas - Seeds & Cultures Summit 

• Sunday, April 27, 2025
• 9:00 am - 2:00 pm 
• UC Davis Student Farm / Bowley Plant Sciences Building

Raising awareness and sharing ideas about sustaining foodways across communities and generations through workshops, speakers, and food sharing. 

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Interactive Workshops:

• Food sovereignty in the face of displacement and changing climate, discussion led by HaiWee Fredricks and Dewansh Matharoo
• Field Notes from the Kitchen: What Farming and Foraging Teach Us About Ourselves, with Chef Kat Balagian
• Mesoamerican foodways: Seminar and Samples with conference co-founder Melissa Moreno
• Soil Violence & Restoration, with Educator and Agriculturalist George Sellu
• Sustaining Foods, Saving Seeds: Why and how to save seeds for plants that you care about, with SCOPE plant scientists and Fresh Focus food justice advocates
• Creating Cordage, hands-on workshop with Chimaway Lopez
• Plants & Foods of California and the Americas, with ecological horticulturalist Julia Schreiber
• Growing Together: Seeding and transplanting plants that sustain your community - take home plants, including California Pipevine, Elderberry, Teosinthe, and vegetables to cook foods you love!

+ resources and Q&A for prospective transfer students interested in sustainable and just food systems.

+ EXHIBIT: A Mini History of Land & Labor in Yolo County

For more information, contact

• Summit Director Dr. Melissa Moreno, mmmoreno@gmail.com
• Student Farm Director Colin Dixon, cghdixon@ucdavis.edu

Additional support from:

• Community & Regional Development Graduate Group
• Slow Food Yolo

See the agenda from last year's summit: Semillas y Culturas 2024