- The Indigenous Seed Keepers Network
is an effort of rematriating our indigenous seeds
back to the communities from which they came.
And we've gone really from a few years ago
only a couple of different types of indigenous seeds,
mostly the Hodinoshoni white corn
to now there's dozens that are being grown
and that are more widely available.
And so that's a big part of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network
is just getting those seeds back
and providing education on how you effectively grow the seeds,
and really steward
and take care of them throughout the season.
I asked my grandpa, "Grandpa, when you were a kid
what kind of corn did you have for corn soup?"
And he'd say, "Well, there's Indian corn.
There's multicolor."
That was 1920s, 1930s and now it's just all white and blue.
But all these other corns are coming back.
That's just part of what I view of my little part of the effort
is helping to grow and care for more of these seeds.
Get them out and give more opportunity for people
to have more of a variety to choose from
and to grow and helping to bring the seeds back.