'The most amazing link to our history': the farmers reclaiming their heritage one seed at a time

The Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance tracks own old or rare seed varieties and supports communities of color to grow culturally relevant foodsThe walls of Bonnetta Adeeb's basement in a suburb of Washington DC are lined with album covers, African art, musical instruments and - a more recent addition - shelves filled with hundreds of boxes of carefully labeled seeds.At the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Adeeb and her students at Steam Onward - a non-profit engaging underserved young people in gardening projects - were looking for ways to support their communities. Continue reading...