Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi (documentary)

In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants and the people that grow them.

We have now released this documentary on the net for free viewing (with English audio and Portuguese subtitles — we will put French, Chinese and Japanese subtitled versions online in the future). Watch it now (or read more about it below thevideo):

Indigenous farmers around the world face increasing pressure from agribusiness corporations that push their uniform seeds. Many of these varieties require costly inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilisers.

Seed Savers directors, Michel and Jude Fanton, shot the film in eleven countries of Europe, Asia and Oceania. It features Pacific islanders who face great challenges: replacing innumerable varieties of root staples with modern hybrids that require pesticides and chemical fertilisers; importing low-quality starch thereby risking losing their resilient food crops.

“Our Seeds” has been shown several times on national television in American Samoa and Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Excerpts have been shown on national television in Serbia, Malaysia and Taiwan and Portugal.

This one hour documentary will help you if you are presenting the idea of a Local Seed Network in your region.

There are instructive motion graphics and a rich sound track, of mostly indigenous music recorded on-location. Audio is English or Pacific Pidgin.

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Save and exchange free seeds, exchange free seeds, & use a wider diversity of vegetable and fruit seeds in your garden to improve your nutrition.

See Seed Savers' 660 film clips on seed saving and bio-cultural matters on Seedsavers Youtube Channel www.youtube.com/seedsavers It is divided into twenty-five playlists that make it easier to choose a clip or to follow a theme. Examples of our Playlists on our Youtube Channel:

• My Seed Savers University - 100 clips on how to save seeds with practical tips.
• Permaculture Food Forest - 80 clips on how to grow, harvest and process food in a forest. Filmed in Seed Savers' Permaculture gardens, established in 1998.
• Crap Foods We Eat - 35 clips with the bad news.
• Gardening Short Cuts - 43 clips shot in our Permaculture style garden; here are our strategies after forty years' practice.

Michel and Jude continue to produce and upload film clips in the seed gardens in Byron Bay, Australia. More clips are added every week, so be there!