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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

Our hope is to raise awareness and share ideas about sustaining foodways across communities and generations through a series of workshops, speakers, and food sharing. 

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Workshop Topics include:

• Identifying and stewarding foods of California and the Americas 
• Sustaining Foods, Saving Seeds - the why and the how of saving seeds of important plants
• Mesoamerican Foods & Foodways - Tasting & Talking
• Discussion: Balancing connection to culture and place in the context of displacement and climate change
• Propagation of California and Mesoamerican Plants (take home your plants)
• Seeding and transplanting plants that sustain your community (take home your vegetable starts)
• Soil Violence & Restoration - taking care of your soil
• Foraging at farm edges - how to find and cook "weeds" of California

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

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