About this Event
Seeds of Survival
Mad Agriculture Journal Issue 15 Launch Party
Join Farmer’s Footprint, Mad Agriculture, and Tucson Village Farm for an evening rooted in seed, story, food, and community.
In partnership with Tucson Village Farm, an 8-acre urban farm serving more than 20,000 people annually through education and community programming, this gathering celebrates Mad Agriculture Journal Issue 15 and the feature Seeds of Survival with Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a 250th-generation Hopi seed keeper, and Briar Rose, Indigenous Māori storyteller and Lead Producer and Director of Storytelling at Farmer’s Footprint
With Michael’s corn actively growing on-site, the evening centers the living landscape itself as both backdrop and teacher. Together, we’ll explore the relationship between seed stewardship, cultural memory, agriculture, and the future of food through conversation, film, and shared experience.
The evening will include:
- A shared communal meal
- Film screening featuring a film by Briar Rose
- Keynote conversation and panel discussion
- Optional guided garden walk through Tucson Village Farm
Dinner will feature pizza made with local grain, garden vegetables, salad, cookies, and a non-alcoholic Desert Rain mocktail.
This event brings together farmers, food system workers, educators, artists, and community members around the question of how we care for seed and place together.
MAD AGRICULTURE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working from heart to head, poetry to science, financing to markets, and soil to shelf. We meet farmers wherever they are on their journey toward regenerative agriculture.
Farmer’s Footprint is a global nonprofit working at the intersection of agriculture, health, and culture. Through education, storytelling, and community, they help people understand the systems that shape our food and the role we each play in shaping what comes next.
Tucson Village Farm is a program of the Pima County Cooperative Extension and the University of Arizona, TVF is a working urban farm and healthy living center that fosters life and leadership skills in young people through agriculture, culinary education, outdoor adventure opportunities, and community engagement.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2201 E Roger Rd, 2201 East Roger Road, Tucson, United States
USD 10.00
