Farms: Living Earth Symposium 2 - Clayton Brascoupe

"On the Table: Creating a Healthy Food Furture" is a special symposium that explores innovative ways to build a healthier, more resilient food future that provides fresh, nutritious choices while protecting public health and sustaining our environment. In this segment, Clayton Brascoupe of Tesuque Pueblo, director of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association, speaks on the important qualities of heritage varieties of crops and the value of the communal and family farming. Clayton Brascoupe, from Tesuque Pueblo, is the director of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association. Based in the indigenous communities in New Mexico, but with projects as far afield as Belize, the Traditional Native American Farming Association is a leading voice for food sovereignty, with many successes getting farmers back on the land, farming organically, and revitalizing traditional methods. Brascoupe works to preserve and increase community access to heirloom/traditional seeds and to educate the public on traditional seed saving and the GMO threat to our traditional seed heritage. This symposium, a part of the annual Living Earth Festival, was recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on July 17, 2015.