permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Deeply Rooted: John Coykendall's Journey to Save Our Seeds and Stories

Thursday, January 25, 08:00 pm on NC CHANNEL

*Duration:* 0:56:46

*Description:* For more than 40 years, John Coykendall - a renowned seed
saver, classically trained artist and a master gardener at Blackberry Farm
resort in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee - has been preserving the seeds,
traditions, oral histories and foodways of a small rural farming community
in Louisiana. The documentary DEEPLY ROOTED: JOHN COYKENDALL'S JOURNEY TO
SAVE OUR SEEDS AND STORIES chronicles how Coykendall has tracked down and
safeguarded rare and heirloom varieties of crops historically grown in the
region and safely returned them to the descendants of farmers who described
them to him decades earlier. Since 1973, he has been visiting Washington
Parish, Louisiana, illustrating and documenting the oral histories, farming
techniques, and folk tales of elderly farmers and backyard gardeners in
volumes of moleskin notebooks detailing an agricultural way of life that is
at risk of loss across our nation. A Tennessee native, the 73-year-old
Coykendall is a true Renaissance man and a celebrity in a growing movement
that places a premium on farm-to-table cuisine and locally sourced, organic
and heirloom food. He is a classically trained artist who studied at the
Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida, and worked as an
instructor at the the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is
also well-known for his sketches of the pastoral landscape in which he
works. Using a mix of historical photographs of the region and its
residents, the film traces his work and time spent in the Parish. Through
his deeds, John hopes to inspire others to view these rare seeds and
stories as grounding us to the earth and rooting us both to our past and
our future.

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*Broadcast In:* English

*Website:* http://www.lpb.org/deeplyrooted
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Independent Lens Seed: The Untold Story #1813

Friday, January 26, 02:00 am on NC CHANNEL

*Duration:* 0:56:46

*Description:* Follow passionate seed keepers around the world who are
determined to protect humanity's 12,000-year-old food legacy. In the last
century, 94 percent of seed varieties have disappeared.

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*Broadcast In:* English

*Website:* http://www.pbs.org/independentlens


-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared