Collaborations

Collaboration and Connection

Our Value: We are committed to fostering relationships that connect communities, ideas, and practices. Understanding that agrobiodiversity includes human and non-human life.

This value shows up in our work through a broad range of dynamic and flexible collaborations that emerge naturally from the community we build.

  • Heirloom Collard Project

    Heirloom Collard Project

    The Heirloom Collard Project is working for the recognition and respect of collards as a key component of American food culture, so their seeds and stories will never be forgotten.

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  • Thumbnail for a video titled 'SouthEast Seed (A Trailer)' featuring a woman with curly hair, surrounded by images of seeds, corn, cucumbers, and various plants.

    Southeast Video Seed Series

    In 2021, Utopian Seed Project and Communal Studios received a grant from Southern SARE to create a Southeast Seed video series. The project traveled across 12 states and interviewed over 50 farmers, community gardeners, seed savers, seed growers, and seed advocates.

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  • A small bottle of Okra Seed Oil from Oliver Farm held by hand, with more small bottles and informational cards in the background.

    Okra Seed Oil Breeding Project

    Since 2021, we have been working on a breeding project to increase the quantity of oil in okra seeds. In 2023, we started collaborating with The Seed Farm at Princeton to continue the work of growing and selecting high oil seed lines from our initial crosses.

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  • Connie Lochlear

    Collard Story Corps

    Collard Story Corps brought together our work with Collard Atlas and the Heirloom Collard Project into a fun micro-story project with collard people across the Southeast. We are grateful for our collaboration with collard researcher (and many other things), Chris Keeve.

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