Kristyn Leach grows Asian crops in California’s Central Valley. Her focus is on preserving and adapting Korean plants, agronomic wisdom and culture. She partners with the Namu Restaurant Group, providing their restaurants with produce and working with their chefs and cooks on breeding projects. She founded a seed line within Kitazawa Seed Company, the oldest purveyor of Asian vegetable seeds in the US, called Second Generation Seeds. Second Generation is a collaborative project, that hopes to connect or reconnect communities of the Asian diaspora with the crops that have sustained them.
The 2021 Howland Symposium: Seeding Resistance examines the ways that seed saving is inherently cultural and place-based. Seed saving is intimate, a reciprocal act between human and plant and an expression of obligations to past and future generations, as well as non-human communities. We hope this conversation reveals the myriad networks we engage when we design with plants and to inspire latent opportunities for designing, stewarding, and living with plants.
The symposium is organized by UVA School of Architecture MLA students Hannah Brown, Priyanka Parachoor, and Katherine Rossi and is supported by the Benjamin C. Howland Endowment.
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