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\u201cYou can\u2019t have food sovereignty without seed sovereignty,\u201d says Jessika Greendeer, former seed keeper and farm manager at Dream of Wild Health in Hugo, Minnesota. \u201cThat is why this work is so important.\u201d The \u201cwork\u201d to which Greendeer refers is seed rematriation, a growing movement Rowen White, founder of Sierra Seeds, explored in the Heritage Farm Companion, Seed Savers Exchange\u2019s member magazine. \u201cIn the Indigenous seed-sovereignty movement, we have begun to use the word \u2018rematriation\u2019 as it relates to bringing our seeds home again,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[64,303,76,322],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seed-rematriation","tag-seed-rematriation","tag-seed-steward","tag-seed-stewards","tag-seed-stewardship"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIndigenous seeds return home - 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