Join Cornell Botanic Gardens and OJI:SDA' for a live webinar featuring Angela Ferguson (Onondaga) and Táhila Moss (Yoeme, Jewish) as they discuss seed saving and the role that plants play as traditional healers. Offering guidance on how to cultivate good ways of living, being in balance, positive mental health, and relationship with ancestors, plants help bring forth this knowledge in reciprocal ways. Indigenous culture and the potency of plant tending for holistic nutritional benefits will be shared and celebrated.

Angela Ferguson is a member of the Eel Clan from Onondaga Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She is supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm on the Onondaga Nation Territory. She is a leading knowledge-holder of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement. At the farm, Angela provides food to help the entire Onondaga community. In this role, she also oversees a collection of over a thousand varieties of seeds, some thousands of years old. Angela is also a member of Braiding the Sacred, a grassroots network of Indigenous corn growers.

Táhila Moss is a Photographer, Medicine Carrier, and Founder / Executive Director of OJI:SDA’ Sustainable Indigenous Futures. She works across multiple platforms and organizations as an ancestral scribe and storyteller to amplify the voices of Indigenous people and the natural world. Táhila is a National Geographic Explorer and Magnum Foundation Fellow and has worked throughout the Americas, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. With ceremony, healing and land relationships as her foundation, Táhila’s work focuses on ancestral matriarchies and gender equilibrium, contemporary Indigenous issues, community cultivation, and recuperating knowledge that has been unraveled by colonialism. She is also a Water Protector and a Land Guardian.

Pre-registration is required. You can register to view the live webinar in person in the Nevin Welcome Center, or via Zoom.  For those attending in person, tea will be served following the one-hour virtual conversation.

There are three flexible payment options, for both in-person and Zoom participants: $5, $10, or $15.

Click here to register to view this webinar at Ccornell Botanic Gardens Nevin Welcome Center.

Click here to register to view this webinar via Zoom.

This program is co-sponsored by:

OJI:SDA' is a local, non-profit organization working to expand Indigenous visibility, land literacy and good health by using innovative ways of sharing ancestral knowledge. OJI:SDA' has been facilitating and sponsoring events in Tompkins County to support land-based education opportunities and community-care work. Through education, media-arts, and curriculum, OJI:SDA' focuses on environmental protection, sustainability, community wellbeing, and cultural vibrancy. 

Cornell Botanic Gardens: Our mission is to inspire people—through cultivation, conservation, and education—to understand, appreciate, and nurture plants and the cultures they sustain. Advancing this mission helps us realize our vision: a world in which the interdependence of biological and cultural diversity is respected, sustained, and celebrated.