Sea To Seed
∆Watch update from Syd Woodward and Zipporah Lomax above ∆
After three weeks at sea, the Sea To Seed Crew have wrapped up what has evolved into just the first phase of a larger vision that, through many beautiful connections and learnings made, will continue to grow over the summer. Syd Woodward will be returning to the islands to deepen the connections with the comunities and farmers, as well as capture more stories through film and video. Even this is just the start to a bright future of what we believe Sea To Seed will be creating over the coming years by creating gatherings, dialogues and media around the intersection of food, farming, art and culture..
With this vision for the future, and as inspiring as the tour was, this adventure has put us in a hard spot financially, leaving us just a few days to raise at least $3000 so all of our agreements and responsibilities can be met. We are humbly reaching out to our community, both near and far, to ask that you consider making a donation to help get us over this hump, and in doing so, allow us to continue on this mission taking Sea to Seed into the next phase.
For any donations you can make, we have many options for incentives, hard cover coffee table book of the photography from Zipporah Lomax and words by Eve LadyApples, Digital downloads from The Tailor and Lynx, a weekend farm tour vacation to Salt Spring island, as well as many other goods and services that will be coming in over the next month.
As so many of us know, the very system we are seeking to change does not make it easy to create art that both defies commodification and supports its creators financially. Please consider supporting this vision so that we can continue together to create the world we want to live in.
If you want to donate in person, or via email transfer (only in Canada) or paypal, please email Syd Woodward at [email redacted]
Check out http://seatoseed.com to follow the adventure
*Photos by Zipporah Lomax*
Sea To Seed Tour : A Journey Of Farming:
This spring, a group of musicians, farmers, filmmakers, writers and photographers will set off on the Sea to Seed Tour, a month long sailing trip up through the Islands of British Columbia. We are on an experimental mission to collect and share the stories of the farming communities sown along the coast. While exploring the importance of localizing food systems, homesteading, organic farming, community building and permaculture we will also be engaging the role that art and culture can play in supporting these ways, evolving educational forums and creating positive change.
Along with telling these stories through our various art forms, we will be hosting music concerts as a means of creating connections within and between the communities on the islands we visit and an expansive network of potential allies. So far, these concerts will feature Lynx from Oakland, CA, The Tailor from Vancouver, along with storytelling and other local artists from each individual island.
Food, language and music carry the beating heart of culture, they hold the possibility of remembering, of realigning ourselves with the simple values of caring for ourselves, each other and the great wild world. We hope to inspire a collective story telling rooted in the fertile soil of generative celebration and cultivating a real way of living with integrity.
By creating a sailboat tour fed primarily thru locally sourced food, the Sea to Seed Tour hopes to embody the very ideals we are promoting, creating models for the post-petroleum reality we are swiftly heading towards. The aim of this adventure is to inspire our local and global communities through the exploration of the art and culture of sustainable farming structures around the Islands; to explore the cohesion and synergy to be found in such structures and how they can inspire a greater shift in our current society.
