CORN: growing, harvesting &LORE

This knowledge share is about 2.5hrs pre-recorded zoom class and it is intended for those people interested on learning about herbs for the nervous system. I will email you the link to this e-class so please give me a couple of days to get to it!

I love corn. It is one of the ancestral foods my family has been growing for generations. I am from Arequipa, which is a southern coastal area of Peru. Corn is part of the cuisine, agriculture and lore. I have been growing corn using "DIY" or low-resource gardening and farming for some years. I love showing off all the beautiful different types of corn that I have grown throughout the years and hear people scream in awe. Yes... corn has been incredibly bastardized by settler agriculture to extremes. There is so much more to corn than rows of "perfectly" planted GMO corn on a field. So much more. The different colors, shapes and sizes corn comes from show us a universe of possibility and ancestralidad. So whether you have a city backyard, or a whole farm... we can all take a moment and speak the language of corn.

Topics covered in this e-class:

👾learn about corn as an Indigenous agricultural technology and sacred food
👽learn basics on how to grow corn in city or rural area using low-resourced methods
🐯learn about seed stories of corn, the importance of seed keeping and how to be a steward to corn
🙈corn "lore" and stories of corn through my lived experience as a Queer Peruvian Farmer growing corn in so-called US