{"id":7834,"date":"2023-09-26T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/?page_id=7834"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:42:42","slug":"satellite-seed-savers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/work\/2023-2\/satellite-seed-savers\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Seed Savers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Satellite Seed Savers<\/strong> links planetary imaginaries with localised environmental activities and action to ask: who will assemble, maintain and propagate plant varieties that have been grown in, or cultivated for, outer space?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many local and national seed saving programs that preserve the historical agricultural biodiversity of a place, but what happens when the place is outer space?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Satellite Seed Savers is a post national seed saving program that collects, distributes and preserves the agricultural biodiversity of off-planet plants. Through seed swap pop-ups and Satellite Seed gardens a network of gardeners, communities and enthusiasts are mobilised to grow and interpret the seeds of edible plants that have been cultivated or eaten in space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Satellite Seed Saver gardens aim to direct the visitors\u2019 gaze up towards the heavens and down towards the soil &#8211; connecting plants in the garden to multi-species activities in the sky and reflecting on environmental stewardship in outer space and here on Earth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will there or should there be a permanent human culture in space? Do plants grown in space have a home here on Earth? To whom and to where do these non-terrestrial plant cultivars belong? How will we continue to co-evolve with non-human organisms on and off-planet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been said that most astronauts return to the Earth with a profound awakening about the need to care for our planet.&nbsp; We don\u2019t all get to be astronauts but thinking about human activities in outer space through the lens of a plant that has traveled there is a chance to look down at the Earth from far away with a renewed sense of wonder, awe, humility and curiosity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope that through growing these non-terrestrial seeds, and actively reflecting on their provenance and journey, Satellite Seed Savers can harness some of these profound feelings, emotions, questions and experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><em>Satellite Seed Savers is the start of a wider research initiative called <strong>Space Permaculture <\/strong>which explores the desires and ideologies that drive humans to act together on Space Exploration &amp; Terrestrial Agroecology.<\/em><\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite Seed Savers links planetary imaginaries with localised environmental activities and action to ask: who will assemble, maintain and propagate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7838,"parent":7591,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-project.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7834","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7857,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7834\/revisions\/7857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}