1:00-2:30PM, SALON 2
Working with Our Ancestral Foods as Resistance
BACKGROUND
Engage with the stories of Cacao and Huitlacoche, plant relatives that have provided healthy food and medicine to ecosystems for generations. Join Amana Ixim of Ama Cacao and Mario Ceballos of POC Fungi Community for a sensory exploration of these ancestral foods through film, sound, dialogue, and a tasting.
Practicing solidarity and recognizing interdependence among humans and with other species is a matter of survival—and yet, humans live on bordered lands. The reconnection we need now is a kind that fungi and other ancestral plant relatives are uniquely equipped to teach us.
Amana and Mario have prepared a special treat to offer attendees a chance to taste and experience the foods that keep them connected to their homelands, as well as offer healing benefits to their communities. These provide a life force that powers their resistance to a world of disconnection and monoculture—and guides them home, toward a vision of reciprocity and abundant diversity.
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