Semillas y Culturas ~ Seeds & Cultures Summit 2025

Event Date

Sun, Apr 27, 2025 @ 9:00am - 2:00pm

Student Farm Ecological Garden

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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 Native California and Indigenous Meso American foodways across communities and generations through workshops, speakers, and food sharing.

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JOIN THE WAITLIST

** If you are a community college student or instructor, contact Jacquelyn Ross, jxross@ucdavis.edu to reserve a ticket.

The event is currently at capacity, but please add your name to the waitlist - we plan to open up additional tickets.

Interactive Workshops:

Food sovereignty in the face of displacement, 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 & Samples with conference co-founders Melissa Moreno & Adelita Serena
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
Microscopic Wildlife of the Wetland: The Invisible Workforce that Makes Life Possible, with entomologist Geoffrey Attardo
Learning About Tule: Making Tule Dolls and Other Uses for Tule, hands-on workshop with cultural practitioner Christina Almendariz
Making and Sharing Tea, with Jade Abreu and Jacquelyn Ross

+ Plant Propagation Workshop: Seeding and transplanting plants that sustain your community - take home plants, including California Pipevine, Elderberry, Teosinte, and vegetables to cook foods you love!

+ Screen-printing with TANA (bring something to print on if you wish!)

+ 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