Tag: Preservation

• Lakou Basile

  After our visit to SAKALA, we planted trees throughout the community of woodworkers that surround the Atis Rezistans along the Grand Rue of Port-au-Prince. We sourced compost to amend the dirt through SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a worthy organization who is working on increasing dignity through community sanitation in urban areas while providing compost…

  Lee Lee

  December 12, 2017

  Haiti, SEED disperse

  Africa, Agroforestry, Art & Ecology, Communities of Culture, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty, heirloom seeds, open source media, Preservation, re-wilding, Sculpture, seed saving, Seed to Table, Urban Gardens

• A Visit to SAKALA

  Lee Lee

  December 9, 2017

  Haiti, SEED disperse

  Africa, Communities of Culture, Creole cooking, Farming, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty, Preservation, Seed to Table, Shared table, Urban Gardens

• Lakou Jean Claude Santillus

  Initiating the 2017 Ghetto Biennial, we continued the tradition of preparing a feast to share between Haitian and foreign artists. While several neighborhood women prepared the feast, we saved seeds from ingredients they were using, and showed how to cultivate ones that we found could grow around the neighborhood. Neighborhood children gathered in his garden…

  Lee Lee

  December 5, 2017

  Haiti, SEED disperse

  Africa, Agroforestry, Art & Ecology, Communities of Culture, creative commons, Creole cooking, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty, Grandmother recipes, heirloom seeds, observational drawing, open source media, Preservation, re-wilding, seed saving, Seed to Table, Shared table, Urban Gardens

• Gardens of the Grand Rue

  2015 Ghetto Biennial KREYÒL, VODOU and the LAKOU as forms of Resistance The effective revolutionary approach of the Lakou, Vodou and Kreyol have much to offer a wider discourse on preserving traditional farming practices in the face of monumental threats from industrial agriculture. Drawing from the historical importance of agriculture in Haiti, the Sacred Soil…

  Lee Lee

  December 7, 2015

  Haiti, SEED disperse

  Africa, Agroforestry, Art & Ecology, Communities of Culture, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty, heirloom seeds, Preservation, re-wilding, seed saving, Urban Gardens