Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Monsoon Mini Malnad Mela in Bangalore 2012

Dear friends,

This is to inform you that Vanastree will be in Bangalore from June 30 to July 2, 2012, for a multi-location exhibition of produce. Please see the attached flier for details.

We would like to thank some of our generous Friends of Vanastree in Bangalore who have made this possible by offering to host us with accommodation and beautiful venues on Rest House Road, in Indira Nagar and Vyalikaval.

We will have our collection of traditional, open pollinated, organic seeds. More than ever, we urge you all to grow, save, replant, gift and exchange these seeds. There will also be our usual range of Vanastree products from the malnad.

Given below is a link to a film Seeds of Freedom that many of you may like to watch. I have not been able to for lack of good enough connectivity here, so it will be good to hear back from some of you who do get to see it.

 
http://seedsoffreedom.info/

"Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system, and genetically modified (GM)seeds in particular, has impacted on the enormous agro -biodiversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world, since the beginning of agriculture."

The monsoon has arrived in the malnad, but is still gentle and sporadic. The rest of India waits with bated breath. We do hope you have to carry your umbrellas to the Bangalore Mela, since unlike other events where people pray it does not rain, we sincerely hope it does!

We look forward to meeting you again.

Regards,
Sunita


-- 
Sunita Rao
Founder Trustee
VANASTREE - the malnad forest garden & seed keepers' collective
Sirsi, Karnataka, INDIA


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