Speaker Spotlight: Beth Bridgeman

Beth Bridgeman is an assistant professor of cooperative education at Antioch College in Yellow  Springs, Ohio, where she teaches a series of reskilling and resilience courses, exploring seed-resilience, plant medicine, regenerative agriculture, food preservation, and commensality. 

Beth directs cooperative education partnerships in sustainability, environmental science, biomedical science, and alternative education. She is an Oral History in the Liberal Arts Faculty Fellow, receiving funding for her project “Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology” with support from the Mellon Foundation. Her current research, “Pedagogies of Nature: Shinto, Spiritual Ecology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge” received National Endowment for the Arts funding through the Great Lakes College Association. 

Beth is hosting a weekend-long course called Seed School and is offering two other workshops: Food Preservation & Food Fermentation.

Seed School with Beth Bridgeman

Fri. Sept 25th 2020 - Sun. Sept 27th 2020
Limited in-person and online tickets available
Buy your ticket now to ensure you spot!
$250 General Admission, $150 Limited Income, $100 Online

Over 75% of the world’s commercial seed is owned by three agrichemical companies. 

How did we get here? This course explores community seed-saving as a resilience tool, including relocalizing seed, seed sovereignty and stewardship. It covers the history of seed patent law in the U.S, the Plant Variety Protection Act, The Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology, seed politics, and an introduction to citizen seed movements around the country. This hands-on course also covers cross-pollination prevention methods including hand-pollination, isolation cages, bags, netting, and distance planting as well as selection, germination testing, seed starting, harvesting and storage, and seed libraries. Participants will build their own winnowing screen and participate in a seed swap at the end of the weekend.

This course is for farmers, gardeners, seed librarians, students, educators, and anyone who cares about food and the seeds that grow it. Join us and empower yourself! No previous experience necessary. Lunch & Snacks provided for in-person tickets.

For more info: bbridgeman@antiochcollege.edu